[Graphical descriptions appear in brackets. Throughout the video montage, voiceovers of multiple individuals are heard while a collage of photographs, documents, and newspaper clippings dissolve in and out of the screen on the patches of a quilt. Photos show portraits of individual speakers, their loved ones and victims, a wrecked car, migrant workers, an African American man in a wheelchair, portraits of domestic violence victims, a woman holding a candle at a vigil, a Latino group for POMC, and John Walsh at a long table with microphones and other advocates.]
[Opening: National Crime Victims' Rights Week 2006 appears superimposed on a quilt.]
Victims' Rights: Strength in Unity
Amanda Lacey: I was on my way home and a drunk driver pulled out of a bar and hit me head on…
Dawana Freeman: He pulls his gun out of his pocket and he's like, "Don't run, don't move."
Donna Hurst: My ex-husband was very angry with me, and he took his right fist and he punched across the left side of my face.
Eric Fischer: I think a lot of times victims of crimes feel that they're alone.
Jeanne Lewis: When you say the word "murder"like "my child was murdered"you can sometimes see an actual physical withdrawal on the part of the listener…
[A series of photos appear on the screen; in order are portraits of Jean Lewis's son; Glynn Birch's son; and Mark Lunsford's daughter Jesse, in front of a Christmas tree.]
Anne Seymour: The greatest challenge wasabsolutelysocietal attitudes about crime and victimization.
[Newspaper clippings appear on the screen. Clipping headlines read: Society Must Realize That the Disabled Are Abused, Too; Elderly; and Victimized again.]
Donna Hurst: I went to counseling. The first counselor I went to asked me, "Well, why do you think you want to be abused?"
Judge Lois Haight: People blamed them, ignored themalthough, I think the blame was the worst.
[Photo appears on screen of a banner from a march that reads, "No Mas Violencia Domestica."]
Judge Lois Haight: We put the responsibility for crime on the persons who suffered it, not the persons who did it.
Rob Smith: When we did the first interview with our, uh, prosecutor he told my wife that she was going to cost the state a lot of money and I felt like he had victimized my wife all over again.
[Newspaper clipping appears on the screen. Clipping reads: You've Been Raped, Why Bother Reporting It?"
Roberta Roper: There were no… no rights for crime victims in our state. There were no serviceswe were told thatwe were literally on our own.
[Newspaper clippings appear on screen. Clippings read: Families seek rights for victims; and Victims of crime want rights.]
Anne Seymour: When you had 2 and 3 and 5 and 20, and then hundreds of victims speaking out about their need for rights and quality services, our society as a whole started paying attention.
[Video of Korean parade for KAFSC (Family Service Center) plays on screen.]
Anne Seymour: These are the seams that tie our field together.
[Newspaper clipping appears on screen. Clipping reads: Keeping their light shining.]
Mark Lunsford: It hurts every time I tell the story, and I mean… and I mean it hurts for me to relive that, but if I can talk to people, at least one person will try to make a change and that's why I do it.
[Video of Mark holding a Jessica T-shirt plays on screen.]
[Newspaper clippings appear on screen. Clippings read: Dad turns despair into activism; and Private pain, public action.]
[Title appears on a patch of the quilt, reads: Victims' Rights: Strength in Unity.]
[End of video clip.]