Netroots We Really Need You Again

Please read this if you came here through a link.

The netroots has been amazing amazing in its support of the Pretty Bird Woman House. Back in May, after we all heard the Amnesty Report on the incidence of sexual violence against Native Women, everyone pitched in to make sure a new women's shelter on the Standing Rock reservation didn't close its doors due to lack of funding.

Because of this, last summer, YOU were the reason the shelter staff was in court to help a woman stand up to a town Mayor who testified that her rapist was an upstanding citizen . (Makes it difficult to believe you're living in 2007 sometimes, doesn't it?) Without PBWH staff standing there as a reminder of the national attention the issue has gotten, the South Dakota District Attorney may not have decided to retry the case after the Mayor's testimony produced a hung jury (the man plead guilty and got 33 months in prison).

YOU are also the reason that the shelter staff was able to rescue a woman from a dangerous domestic situation back in May. Without the netroots, the shelter would have been out of money for even the phoneline they received the call on.

Since that time, Pretty Bird Woman House has received a 3 year federal grant to pay its staff, and obtained office space through the Tribal Council.

But since that time, it has also lost its shelter to vandalism.

I KNOW we can help them again. Even $5 toward the house makes a difference.

I KNOW we can do it AGAIN!!!

Maybe we can't change the Democrats in Congress, but we CAN definitely make a BIG difference here!