Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe house should do is make sure they aren't putting themselves in danger by letting them in." Lonsway says. "Sometimes the owner will only let them stand in the hallway, but at least they're off the street." Christine Maguire, who works with the Dorchester Green Light program, adds...
...bottom line philosophy of the program is simply to "give women places to go where they know they'll be safe, where they know they'll not be harmed any more," Lonsway says...
...adds, however, that the "failure" of the police to adequately protect women is a major reason the program is needed. "We're not able to depend on the police--it's just not happening," she says...
...When the program began in 1979, organizer Marie Herbert explained to the Cambridge Chronicle crimes against women underlined the sexism in society. "That it can go on and on and so little has been done says something about women's value in society. We feel that the level of violence is directly related to the response to it," she said...
...women currently in the program agree. A string of rapes in the Cambridgeport area last summer didn't bring adequate police response, but did, according to one participant in the safe house network who asked not to be identified, "heighten the visibility of the entire problem--and of solutions like this...