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Silent Witness is a not-for-profit grassroots organization founded in 1990 in
Minnesota. A group of artists and writers who were upset about the growing
number of women being murdered by their partners or acquaintances, joined
together with several other women's organizations to form Arts Action Against
Domestic Violence. They felt an urgency to do something that would speak out
against the escalating domestic violence in their state, something that would
commemorate the lives of women who had been lost in 1990 as a result of domestic
violence They created 27 life-sized red wooden figures representing all the
women who were killed in acts of domestic violence in Minnesota in 1990. They
called them the Silent Witnesses.
In just ten years, Silent Witness became an international initiative with
efforts in all 50 states and several countries. More information about the
Silent Witness National Initiative can be found on their web site at
www.silentwitness.net.
NATIONAL SILENT WITNESS MISSION
The mission of the Silent Witness is to promote peace, healing, and
responsibility in adult relationships in order to eliminate domestic violence
murders in the United States by 2010 (Zero by 2010).
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