Worcester, MA --- Assumption College will host an all-day session of "The Clothesline Project," a national movement which publicly exposes the different forms of violence that women experience in American culture, on Tuesday, February 8, 2000, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the College's Hagan Campus Center Hall.

The Clothesline Project bears witness to the issues of rape, domestic violence, incest, child sexual assault, homophobia, and murder by displaying different colored shirts, representing the different forms of violence, which are decorated by survivors, and family and friends of victims. Shirts are collected by regional Clothesline Projects around the country, and displayed in public as a personal moving tribute to all victims and survivors of this type of violence.

The purpose of The Clothesline Project is two-fold: it gives survivors, and friends and family of victims an opportunity to safely and confidentially speak out about their experiences, while educating the public about the personal impact and prevalence of this type of violence. It is the first national movement of its kind that links together the different forms of violence, speaking to the quality of life all women have to live with in this culture.

The event is co-sponsored by the College's Social Rehabilitation Club and the Student Government Association, and is free and open to the public.