| Time Code | Speaker/Element | Transcript |
| 0.00.06 | Lower ⅓ | Huayna Potosí Cordillera Real, Bolivia |
| 0.00.10 | Title card | You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. |
| 0.00.16 | Title card (con’t) | You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.’ |
| 0.00.22 | Title card (end) | You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 0.00.32 | Title card | Women With Altitude |
| 0.00.52 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: Why climb? For the challenge, for absolute joy, for the struggle, for the pain, for peace, for perspective, for new horizons, for finding strength. |
| 0.01:26 | [Peter Finch, KFOG]
| VO: You’re tuned to the Beat of the Bay; seven Bay Area women will spend the next three weeks scaling the Andes mountains. Calling themselves Women With Altitude, the group is doing it to challenge themselves while raising money and attention for the fight against domestic violence. |
| 0.01.46 | Lower ⅓ | Tonya Redfield Founder, Women With Altitude |
| 0.01.44 | Tonya Redfield | We are just regular women, we’re not professional athletes, we’re not professional climbers, we’re not social workers, we’re not domestic violence experts, but we are going to do something that a lot of of us have never done before. |
| 0.01.59 | Tonya Redfield | My mother has always been a huge source of inspiration and strength for me, and it was such a shock for me when I learned about her stories about her true childhood, which was not about chasing puppies and playing hopscotch with her friends - it was a childhood of a lot of abuse from stepfathers and other family members and strangers even. And so it was at that point where I felt very angry and I felt like, ‘what can I do?’ And that’s when I started calling my other girlfriends who I knew loved the outdoors and who would also feel passionate about doing something for a cause. |
| 0.02.40 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: Six of us joined Tonya to become Women With Altitude. We were each driven to do it for different reasons, for our mothers, for our friends, and for ourselves. |
| 0.02.52 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: They say that one in three women will experience violence and abuse within her lifetime. For us, based on incidents in childhood or in relationships, it was two out of the seven. For me I was more willing to climb a mountain than to talk about my own experience with an assault. |
| 0.03.11 | Sarah Vaill | It’s something that every single one of us has experienced and in some ways either internalized and not challenged, or we’ve challenged and others have not listened and not heard. |
| 0.03.24 | Ami Ehrlich | I really want this to be about strength and endurance, and not about victims. |
| 0.03 .29 | Lower ⅓ | Mt Shasta, California 14,162 ft above sea level |
| 0.03.29 | Tonya Redfield | We’ve been going to Mt. Shasta and Mt. Dana, we’ve been practicing our alpine climbing techniques, walking in rope teams, self arrest. For example, if someone slips and starts sliding, we all need to be able to catch that person with our ice axes and the skills we’ve developed. |
| 0.03.47 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: We chose to climb 3 high altitude mountains because of the challenges they represent: Ilusioncita, to gain knowledge |
| 0.03.53 | Lower ⅓ | Ilusioncita 16,896 ft Knowledge |
| 0.03.58 | Narrator (cont) [Sarah Vaill] | VO: Pequeño Alpamayo, to exercise independence. |
| 0.04.11 | Lower ⅓ | Pequeno Alpamayo 17,613 ft Independence |
| 0.04.03 | Lower ⅓ | Huayna Potosí 19,996 ft Strength |
| 0.04.03 | Narrator (cont) [Sarah Vaill] | VO: … and Huayna Potosi to test our strength. For us, from what we have experienced, or what our mothers and what our friends have experienced, overcoming domestic violence calls on every ounce of your strength of will, much like climbing a collossal mountain. |
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0.04.17
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Tonya Redfield |
Domestic violence is a global issue, and so we’re going to Bolivia. And this is an opportunity for us to connect with the women and that’s why we’re spending a week in Bolivia to meet with the many different women’s groups. |
| 0.04.44 | Lower ⅓ | La Paz, Bolivia 13,313 ft above sea level |
| 0.04.46 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: Why Bolivia? Besides having some of the highest mountains with the most stable weather in the Andes |
| 0.04.52 | Subtitle | ‘We’re not straight, we’re all curves.’ |
| 0.04.53 | Narrator (cont) [Sarah Vaill] | VO: Bolivia also has active and diverse women organizations that we were eager to meet as Women With Altitude. |
| 0.04.56 | Subtitle | ‘Women - stop ironing, start organizing.’ |
| 0.05.00 | Narrator (cont) [Sarah Vaill] | VO: We wanted this expedition to be a vehicle to tell the story of the courageous fight of domestic violence activists. |
| 0.05.15 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: We arrived on July 13, a national holiday and the middle of Bolivia’s winter. |
| 0.05.15 | Lower ⅓
| Downtown La Paz 12,500 ft above sea level |
| 0.05.24 | Narrator (cont) [Sarah Vaill] | VO: We took several days to acclimatize to the 13,000 ft elevation in La Paz. In addition to seeing thousands people in the streets we noticed that certain gender issues were already out in the open. |
| 0.05.34 | Subtitle | ‘Purely male fashion’ |
| 0.05.37 | Sarah Vaill | One of the first things we saw was a billboard that says: ‘Ciudadania Sexual’—which means |
| 0.05.41
| Subtitle (Sarah Vaill) | ‘Sexual Citizenship’ |
| 0.05.43 | Sarah Vaill (cont) | sexual citizenship—‘We may all be different, but we all have equal rights.’ |
| 0.05.44 | Subtitle | ‘We may all be different but we all have equal rights.’ |
| 0.05.46 | Sarah Vaill (cont) | ...and then as we were walking back we saw two walls painted with graffiti that said |
| 0.05.50 | Subtitle and Sarah Vaill (cont) | ‘I would rather be hated for being what I am, than being loved for something that I am not’ |
| 0.05.58 | Lower 1/3 | Pan-American Health Organization |
| 0.05.58 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: We set out to learn what domestic violence means in Bolivia. |
| 0.06.04 | Subtitle (Dora Caballero)
| We found that for every ten women in La Paz between 5 and 6 women said they were victims of violence. It’s not only for the police and not only for the courts to remedy. It’s a matter for the community and all the public agencies to address. |
| 0.06.04 | Upper 1/3 | Dr. Dora Caballero - Pan-American Health Organization |
| 0.06.22 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: For a city of a million people La Paz lacks even one crisis shelter. In response, a number of women’s organizations are addressing domestic violence more holistically. Some raise awareness and make calls to action or do research and education. Others train medical and police personnel to respond to cases of domestic violence, and some provide support groups that offer legal aid and counseling such as Mujeres Creando. |
| 0.06.49 | Lower 1/3 | Mujeres Creando “Women Creating” |
| 0.06.50 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | Meeting at their bohemian café, we also learned that they were responsible for the graffiti we had seen3around La Paz. |
| 0.06.58 | Upper 1/3 | María Galindo Mujeres Creando |
| 0.07.05 | Subtitles (María Galindo) | Domestic violence is a very important issue. It’s a topic that affects every woman. Because if it’s not your experience, then it’s your mother’s. If not your mother, then your sister. If not your sister, then your neighbor, or your friend. |
| 0.07.16
| Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: One women who described her escape from domestic violence was Jeanette Alfaro who found a lifeline when she joined a peer support group. |
| 0.07.23 | Upper 1/3 | Jeanette Alfaro Grupo de Autoayuda |
| 0.07.23
| Subtitles (Jeanette Alfaro) | A moment came when the abuse became physical, not only against me, but also against my children. This was the final trigger to make my decision to leave, even though I was pregnant at the time.
I entered the support group because it was very diverse, and it delighted me from the first day. I found a lot of respect for my pain. We never talked about the aggressor, instead we began by talking about ourselves. We were the important ones, a role that our society had always denied us.
We found an incredible capacity for change. And a recovery of self-esteem. |
| 0.08.14
| Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: Helping battered women rebuild their self esteem and break their sense of isolation, Jeanette Alfaro’s support group has served over 400 women in La Paz. |
| 0.08.24 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: By finding peer support and a stronger self identity, these women are redefining their lives and the reality they face. |
| 0.08.31
| Subtitles (Maria Galindo)
| This space is a cooperative, so it’s a place where some of us can earn a living. It’s a place where racism cannot enter, where we do not allow homophobia or any form of violence to enter. This is a place to be your true self. Because racism crushes freedom, and homophobia crushes freedom. |
| 0.08.55 | Ami Ehrlich | Meeting with the women’s groups, I learned a lot about what it meant for them to talk about domestic violence. That it really was something that was integral and part of larger social justice issues and it was difficult for them to separate that out from poverty and economic deprivation. |
| 0.09.10 | Lower 1/3 | Indian power |
| 0.09.20 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] | VO: We found this to be particularly true among indigenous communities, which represent 66% of Bolivia’s population. Our visits lead us to Erculina Mamani, the leader of ASOIM an Aymara women’s training facility outside La Paz. |
| 0.09.29 | Lower 1/3 | Erculina Mamani Aymara Women’s Association for Training & Services ASOIM |
| 0.09.35 | Subtitle (Erculina Mamani) | You eat them too? |
| 0.09.37 | Subtitle (Shona Holmes) | Corn and potatoes, yes. |
| 0.09.39 | Subtitle (Amber Nystrom) | But our corn is different. |
| 0.09:41
0.09.50 | Narrator [Sarah Vaill] |