We need to do ourselves justice as well as this document justice, ... A lot of issues were raised here this evening. We need to get these matters clarified. The 90 days does not bother me. Take the time to do it correctly.

That is a national project that has been funded through the U.S. Department of Justice.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers but that males are more able to realize the predator role. In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.

It would be a devastating blow to the basic traditions of our justice system, which is we do not have secret courts we do not have a tradition of people being able to make charges against other people and remain anonymous.