Hi Martha --
Yes -- I simply forwarded Annie's letter to the list.
I'll follow up when I learn more. Virginia Rose is Annie's adopted,
handicapped daughter who must be around 20 years old.

By the way, Martha, you might remember Annie -- she studied comparative
religions and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook in the 1980s.

Right now, I think Annie just needs to hear supportive words from folks.

Mitchel

At 05:39 PM 7/20/2005, you wrote:
>Mitchel, this is a really compelling, painful letter.  But you don't
>make it clear (a) what actually happened (e.g., who's Virginia???) or
>(b) what you think members of this list might be able to do.  For
>example, I don't guess I'm going to put a "Rapewick College"
>bumpersticker on my car, and even if I did think that was a good
>idea, I don't see how that would help this woman in her seemingly
>desperate situation.
>
>Peace,
>
>Martha
>
>
>
>
>>My old pal Annie Sauter, long ago in the dynamite activist group "Up
>>Against the Wall Motherfuckers" and anti-war / anti-pesticide activist,
>>wrote me this heart-rending letter, and I'm sending it out to others. She
>>lives near Oneonta NY, and needs, at the very least, words of support!
>>Please write to her!!
>>
>>Thanx.
>>
>>Mitchel
>>
>>
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>hi mitchell
>>Virginia was brutally raped by members of G-Unit (50 cent rap group) at a
>>college (Hartwick) two blocks from our house.  Every instituiton from the
>>hospital , to the college to the state cops(duh) and the DA have now raped
>>her and us again.  We won't know if she has HIV for a year.  Our lives are
>>in shambles and we have been deserted by everyone, even the feminists
>>because most of them either work for the city, the college or the
>>hospital.  We are selling everything we have to raise money.  We hired a
>>lawyer (the district attorney is a yuppie prick who told the lawyer that
>>he"hates" me.  The perps have a million dollar lawyer, but one of them is
>>also now(since the rape) wanted for murder and has been the target of three
>>murder attemps and has supposedly fled to the south somewhere. I am trying
>>to get back intouch with Errol Louis from the daily news--he called me when
>>it happened because he does alot of anti rap stuff--the only people who
>>will help me are black people who are sick of the rap shit and all it
>>brings to their community-all the whities are afraid of being called racist
>>or of being killed.  We hired a private dectective(two actually) and then
>>one of them told us that a few days later the perps called and tried to
>>hire them to find us-maybe they will kill us--couldn't be much worse than
>>having your handicapped kid raped, sodomized be given the wrong HIV
>>experimental drug prevention dose, being lied to and abandoned while you
>>get tested for AIDs every three months.  So I amtrying to get the word
>>out.  I am ordering 10,000 bumper stickers that say "Rapewick College,
>>Oneonta NY , memories that last a lifetime" I got bea tup and had a
>>migraine that cause strokelike damage to my brain and to my right side for
>>protesting Hartwick's nonresponse-coverup on publik property during their
>>graduation.  Could you help get the word out, or bumperstickers and
>>pamphlets out if I send you some?  I have never asked anybody for help and
>>I would help you if I could--please let me know--ps I worked on pseticides
>>for years and years(thats why we left long Island--after I sat in at the
>>DEC for three days by mself when Kathleen was a baby) anyway Please please
>>help us--everyone else is chicken shit--
>>love Annie,Paul, Virginia and Kat
>
>--
>Martha Livingston, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Health and Society
>SUNY College at Old Westbury
>Box 210
>Old Westbury, New York 11568
>(516) 876-2748
>
>
>"The great only appear great because we are on our knees.  Let us rise."
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>- James Connolly