PAVSA along with community partners are asking the community to join them each week of January to learn more about the effects and stigmas around sexual assault.
Program to Aid Victims of Sexual Assault, or PAVSA, is a nonprofit rape crisis center that helps to aid victims, survivors and second hand survivors of sexual assault. Since opening, the non-profit has been making history for not only Duluth or even Minnesota but nationwide.
“You will see Peace Church people out in the street, protesting and in council meetings working for policy change and also having fun, too," interim Pastor Jim Mitulski said.
Rita Garcia was pronouncing her last name wrong, certainly. It couldn't be Gar-SEE-ah, not on the Iron Range in the 1950s. No, had to be GAR-sha. Strangers who liked to pat Rita's long, jet-black hair insisted that she was American Indian, not of.
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The City of Duluth Human Rights Commission held a press conference Tuesday morning in response to Daunte Wright s death and also spoke on the importance of putting a stop to the police violence against black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).
The Northland just like many across the state and country continue mourning the loss of Wright. We are here today to acknowledge a systemic violence against BIPOC in our community. An event has happened that is difficult to speak on but impossible to remain silent, said Bettina Keppers, the chair of the City of Duluth Human Rights Commission.