Over 500 Women Killed: Hollywood, L.A Businesses and Prominent Citizens Making a Difference

“Over the last decade, more than 500 women have been abducted and brutally murdered in the Juarez City, Chihuahua State, Mexico and El Paso, Texas (U.S.) Border Region, an area often referred to as “The City of Death.” Most of the victims were poor, young working girls. Some victims were as young as 5 and 6 years old, and the majority of the victims were teenagers and young women between the ages of 17 to 22. Although numerous suspects are in custody, activists and families of victims believe the Mexican authorities have not solved most of the crimes and the killings continue.

Hollywood and L.A business owners are stepping up to the plate to make a difference. During the month of September the restaurants listed at http://www.wereallycare.org are holding Dine Outs in a display of solidarity for the young women losing their lives. Until September 27, 2006, participating restaurants will donate a generous percentage of receipts to Peace at the Border Films LLC for their work on projects designed to help create a non-violent and quality living and working environment in the area such as their work with victim’s mothers on a film about the Femicide, “Border Echoes-Ecos De Una Frontera.” This is a documentary based on the investigation efforts of Diana Washington, a journalist in El Paso, Texas, who put her life on the line to expose the high-level corruption that she believes has protected the killers. She contends that serial killers, drug dealers, violent gangs, a group of powerful and copycat killers are among the suspects who are still at large. “

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