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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 649 

Commemorating the second annual ‘‘Milwaukee Brides Walk’’ and recognizing 

all brides marches in protest of domestic violence. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007 

Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin (for herself, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. 

PAYNE, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. KIND, 

Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. SOLIS, and Mr. OBEY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Commemorating the second annual ‘‘Milwaukee Brides 

Walk’’ and recognizing all brides marches in protest of 

domestic violence. 

Whereas the first brides walk was held in New York over 6 

years ago in memory of Gladys Ricart, who was brutally 

murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend on her wedding day 

as she was handing the floral bouquets to her bridesmaids; 

Whereas the first brides march was started by Josie Ashton, 

a domestic violence advocate who put on her wedding 

dress and started a 1,600-mile march down the East 

Coast from New York; 


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•HRES 649 IH 

Whereas every year women across the world organize walks, 

dressed as brides, to not only remember Gladys Ricart, 

but to protest against domestic violence; 

Whereas domestic violence is the willful intimidation, assault, 

battery, sexual assault, or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another which 

includes women and men; 

Whereas 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime; 

Whereas 1 in 5 women and 1 in 33 men have experienced 

an attempted or completed rape; 

Whereas on average, more than 3 women are murdered by 

their husbands or boyfriends in the United States every 

day; 

Whereas 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner in 2000; 

Whereas 30 percent of Americans say they know a woman 

who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year; 

Whereas roughly 300,000 to 400,000 men are treated violently by their wife or girlfriend; 

Whereas in Wisconsin in 2004, 33 individuals in Wisconsin 

lost their lives at the hands of a current or former partner, or were present at the scene when domestic violence 

was occurring and lost their lives during the incident; 

Whereas 1 child was murdered and 22 children were orphaned due to domestic homicide in Wisconsin in 2004; 

Whereas the Milwaukee Brides Walk was the first brides 

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•HRES 649 IH 

tember 17, 2006 and the second Brides Walk will take 

place on September 16, 2007; and 

Whereas the purpose of the brides walk will be to honor the 

memory of deceased victims and promote awareness of 

domestic violence issues in the Latino community: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives honors 

2 the memory of domestic violence victims, celebrates the 

3 Milwaukee Brides Walk, and recognizes all bride walks in 

4 protest of domestic violence. 

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