Weekly Round Up March 14, 2010 | Stop Street Harassment

Stories:

On this blog, one woman shares three different harassment stories that happened to her this week in Georgetown, Washington, DC, a woman in NYC is harassed on her way to jury duty, and a woman in MA is harassed in an elevator at her workplace.
On HollaBack NYC, a woman shares how a compliment from a man on the street turns into him stalking her!
On HollaBack DC! a woman wishes she had verbally confronted men who harassed her and pulled on her arm and another woman talks about a man who followed and harassed her and her sister.

In the News:

Women-only taxi cabs are introduced in Cairo because of male harassment
One of the women in the first same-sex couple to marry in Washington, DC, mentions street harassment in an article about it.
Three teens recently died because of male harassers and predators.
An op-ed about the need for the legal regulation of street harassment appears in the Huffington Post (written by yours truly)

Announcements:

If you’re in the UK, check out the new anti-street harassment group, the LASH Campaign.
Be the first to test out the HollaBack! phone application when it comes out!
Blank Noise in India is looking for new logo submissions
RightRides/New Yorkers for Safe Transit is hiring
HollaBack DC! has dubbed March as Public Transit Awareness Month

Resource of the Week:

One Angry Girl has many shirts and bumper stickers with anti-street harassment slogans