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Follow on Google News | Harvey Weinstein: One Way Hollywood Can Silence its ShameBy: Coalition for Policy Reform There is a way Hollywood can help rape survivors find their voice and justice. "Thousands of women in California have the courage to report rape," says Dawn Wildman, director of the Coalition for Polilcy Reform (CPR), "but these women are hurt even further by not getting justice because rape kits go unprocessed." Producer Harvey Weinstein contributed ore than $2.3 million to the Democrat Party--including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama--since the 2000 election cycles, according to Business Insider. "I think we can lead the way," Wildman adds, "to announce some of those contributions could go to California cities with unprocessed rape kits." The cost of processing a single rape kit in Caolifornia is between $1,000 and $1,500, according to statistics from End the Backlog, an initiative of the Joyful Heart Foundation, which seeks to shrink the backlog of rape kits and expedite criminal prosecutions. A "backlog snapshot" at http://www.EndtheBacklog.org/ Actress Mariska Hargity is founder and president of the Joyful Heart Foundation (JHF), which has the highest rating (4 stars), according to the watchdog group, Charity Navigator. In 2013, JHF produced the No More series of public service announcements (PSAs) with celebrities cast to promote the end of sexual and domestic violence. See http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/ The good news is last week Gov. Jerry Brown signed two new laws (AB41 and AB 1312) that strengthen data collection and maintenance, or extends storage time and notification to survivors of the status of their rape kits, respectively. Funding is omitted. Imagine if some of those Weinstein donations to buy access to powerful elites went to http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org. End
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