SURVIVORSHIP BENEFIT CONCERT
September 7, 2008, starting at 3:00 p.m.
in
Oakland, near Park Boulevard
Join us for an outdoor afternoon of music and
celebration to
support the work of Survivorship!
Carrie
Gerendasy is an outstanding, high-energy folk singer with a superb
voice, and a lightning-fast flat picking hand. Powerful and passionate,
her songs inspire and her charismatic presence electrifies the room.
Lisa Cohen is a truly gifted and unique Bay Area blues, jazz and
gospel vocalist. She has been wowing audiences on the Women’s Music
circuit for years with her soulful voice and stage presence.
Out
On A Clef – Emily
Brooks, Pat Cull, Kris Gannon, Janet Rachel – is a unique acappella quartet – savvy
Baby Boomer dykes with attitude. Delighting audiences with sharp political
satire, sexual innuendo, and stage antics, they get off on poking fun at
convention and definitely at themselves. They pride themselves on being musically tight while de-ranging most of
the song lyrics to suit their whims and socially progressive messages. It
adds up to a good time for all!
Survivorship
is an international non-profit
organization for survivors of sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind
control and torture. Survivorship has been serving survivors, partners and
other allies, therapists, clergy and pro-survivor activists and advocates, for
nearly 20 years.
SUGGESTED DONATIONS on a sliding scale from $15 to
$35
Email survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com for reservations and location details.
General contributions are always welcome and
are tax deductible.
Checks payable to Survivorship can be sent to:
Survivorship
3181 Mission Street, #139
San Francisco, CA 94110-451
Please donate to Survivorship or volunteer your time and talents.
Here's what we need.
If you would like to subscribe to an infrequent (every few months)
but free e-mail
newsletter compiled by
www.ra-info.org in affiliation with Survivorship,
please write jeannie@survivorship.org
Survivorship
Membership
in Survivorship is a powerful way to break the isolation and silence and
to come together in community. It is a way for people to connect with
each other, to validate each other's feelings and experiences, to share
information, and to offer each other support and understanding.
Please
be mindful of your reactions as you explore these pages. Reading about
ritual abuse can evoke very powerful feelings, both positive and negative,
especially if you are new to the memory of your past or new to information
about ritualized abuse.
It
is considered wise to check inside frequently and to stop reading if you
start to feel upset or in a trance state. You can always come back later.
If this happens, do whatever has worked in the past to soothe and center
yourself. If you are so overwhelmed that these techniques do not help,
call your therapist or a hotline for help.
None
of the material on this site is meant as therapy, or to take the place
of therapy. It is peer-to-peer sharing and designed as information and
support.
Many
of us now see ourselves as strong and resourceful people, able to handle
our past and our present lives with joy as well as pain and sorrow. We
hope you, too, will soon come to see yourself as a strong, brave, capable
survivor.
Within this site you will find information on ritual abuse
(also called ritualistic abuse or ritual-abuse-torture). The “difficult dates” page
lists holidays that are hard for survivors of satanic ritual abuse (SRA), polytheistic cult
abuse, and abuse by nazi groups. The articles give background and deal with the effects of
ritual abuse, child pornography, and child prostitution, and government/military
mind control (MC). Many of the articles describe living with Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, formerly called MPD.) There are
numerous links to other pages on ritual abuse and to healing resources.