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February 28th 2006 • Printer version
One of NBCs Five Most Inspiring Women in America to talk on domestic violence
Sarah Buel will speak at the UO School of Law on domestic violence and
legal advocacy at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 6 in Room 175 of the
Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St. in Eugene.
Buels talk, Accountability, Power and Politics: Navigating the
Troubled Waters of Domestic Violence, is free and open to the public.
When Sarah Buel narrated Defending Your Life, the 1992 Academy
Award-winning documentary on domestic violence, she wasnt acting.
The district attorney - now law professor- had survived her own
battering by an intimate partner. What happened afterwards
resulted in her recognition in 1996 as one of NBCs Five Most
Inspiring Women in America.
After escaping her batterer, Buel went on to become a lawyer, advocate, educator,
author, and lecturer.
She founded the Harvard Womens Advocacy Project at Harvard Law School,
established award-winning domestic violence and juvenile programs while
a prosecutor in Massachusetts, was a key figure in creating the 1994
Violence Against Women Act, and founded and now directs the Domestic
Violence Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1996, she was
profiled by NBC as one of the five most inspiring women in America.
Domestic violence is the single greatest cause of injury to women in
America - more than muggings, rapes, and car accidents combined. A
woman in the United States is more likely to be killed by her partner
than by any other assailant.
Read more about Sarah Buel on the Womens History Project website
PRE-REGISTER FOR FREE CHILD CARE
Free childcare will be provided by UO Childcare and Development Centers
staff at 1685 Moss Street during the event. Pre registration required.
To register, call or email Cass Skinner Lopata at (541) 686-1882 In the message, please include the number of
children you will bring, their names, ages, name/s of parent/guardian
and your phone number or email address.
-Eliza Schmidkunz
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