[lbo-talk] Andrea Dworkin dead

[Doug Henwood]

[this was on the infoshop list - haven't seen it elsewhere - I'm far 
from a Dworkin fan, but she sure had a way about her]

From: "Judie M" <firme2306 at comcast.net>
Date: April 9, 2005 5:53:57 PM HST
To: <firme2306 at comcast.net>
Subject: Andrea Dworkin

Here's a note I received this evening with some other personal stuff
included that I've cut.  I checked Reuters, AP, and a general site that
covers several news outlets but found nothing so far.

http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/

	Dear Friends,

	I just received word that Andrea Dworkin died peacefully in her bed
this morning at 8, after a long struggle.

	I want to honor her passing by sharing with you an excerpt from one
of her speeches posted at the Official Andrea Dworkin Website, which is a
beautiful site:

	Here are the words of Andrea:

	I'm going to ask you to remember the prostituted, the homeless, the
battered, the raped, the tortured, the murdered, the raped-then-murdered,
the murdered-then-raped; and I am going to ask you to remember the
photographed, the ones that any or all of the above happened to and it was
photographed and now the photographs are for sale in our free countries. I
want you to think about those who have been hurt for the fun, the
entertainment, the so-called speech of others; those who have been hurt for
profit, for the financial benefit of pimps and entrepreneurs. I want you to
remember the perpetrator and I am going to ask you to remember the victims:
not just tonight but tomorrow and the next day. I want you to find a way to
include them - the perpetrators and the victims - in what you do, how you
think, how you act, what you care about, what your life means to you.

	Now, I know, in this room, some of you are the women I have been
talking about. I know that. People around you may not. I am going to ask you
to use every single thing you can remember about what was done to you - how
it was done, where, by whom, when, and, if you know, why - to begin to tear
male dominance to pieces, to pull it apart, to vandalize it, to destabilize
it, to mess it up, to get in its way, to fuck it up. I have to ask you to
resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse
to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost
to you to change it.

		ANDREA DWORKIN

		Speech at the Massey College Fifth Walter Gordon Forum,
Toronto, Ontario, in a symposium on "The Future of Feminism," April 2, 1995.
First published by Massey College in the University of Toronto, May 2, 1995.
Copyright (c)1995, 1996 by Andrea Dworkin. Reprinted from Life and Death.