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From 1988 to 2007 at least 165 women, children, friends or family members have been murdered in Minnesota as a result of domestic violence.Today I attended the Minnesota Clothesline Project on the Lakewalk. It was organized by DAIP, Duluth Abuse Intervention Project. Many other organizations participated. The event began at the Inn on Lake Superior with speakers and a gathering of the clotheslines and T-shirts. It also ended at the Inn with a hot dog lunch.

All the T-shirts have been decorated by friends and family members of the victims. It was striking to see the shirts stretched along the Lakewalk. Tourists and other people strolling by stopped to look and ask questions.

From the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women website:
The clothesline project is a national art project started by women in Massachusetts as a memorial to the victims and survivors of domestic violence. The project involves designing shirts to remember the women and children murdered as a result of domestic violence and child abuse. The shirts then are hung on a clothesline and displayed in a public location. The purpose is to create a visual memorial to the casualties and survivors of the war against women.

Duluth is known world-wide for the work it did in the 1970s and 1980s. This research, the Duluth Model showed a cyclical pattern to abuse and also promoted the theory that violence need to be addresses as a community issue that is a crime, not a personal or family matter.

For more information visit the website above or (in Minnesota) phone 866-223-1111. If you are not in Minnesota, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).

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