30 4 / 2009
Julie is running a pretty impressive guerrilla campaign to help someone who needs it desperately, and I like things that are guerrilla. <3
I think this excerpt is pretty indicative of what women victims of domestic violence have to deal with, and they are in precisely the worst position to deal with shit like this:
“Thanks to the beauty of the new cell phone that YOU purchased for K, I was able to listen in on the two calls she had yesterday via speaker phone. Please read this carefully.
The first call was from Mr. Kayhan, giving her the phone number of a shelter that he said:
had a bed for her and the kids starting on Monday
that they were expecting her call
I listened to the call that K placed to the shelter immediately afterwards and this is what happened:
they did not know who K was or why she was calling
they did not know who the man was that told her to call
they distinctly said “we don’t work that way” (meaning you just can’t call and get a bed) and that K would first need to be evaluated in an intake session and ONLY THEN would the shelter decide if they would take her case.”
