Weekly Round Up: June 13, 2010 | Stop Street Harassment

Weekly Round Up is back by popular demand.

Story Submissions Recap:

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Stop Street Harassment Blog: A woman in New Jersey is harassed in person and through her phone, a woman living in Belize shares how common street harassment occurs there, awoman in Salem, Massachusetts, observes high school boys harassing a high school girl and decides to report them, a woman in Gent, Belgium, says she gets sick with fear when men harass her, a woman in Washington, DC. tells a metro harasser to please leave her alone, a woman in Hendersonville, TN, recalls how many men threw objects from their cars at her and other woman walking down the street, and a woman in Toronto is stalked by a man for 45 minutes as she shops.
Hollaback Chicago: 1 new story this week
Hollaback DC!: 12 new stories this week
Hollaback London: 4 new stories this week
Hollaback NYC: 3 new stories this week, plus Justine’s video “Why I Hollaback”
Hollaback Toronto: 1 new story this week
Other: A woman in Nepal writes about street harassment on Booksie, there’s a Livejournal entry called “Street Harassment and Redneck Chivalry,” and anti-street harassment song! By “eating dictionaries”

In the News:

June 13 is “Eve Teasing Protection Day“
In Central Jakarta, India, there are now sex segregated bus lines because of harassment
Crime Prevention 101 online radio show about street harassment (listen to it here)
“Black Women X The Streets X Harassment” on Racialicious
AOL Lemondrop article “How to Deal with Cat-Callers, Leer-ers, and Other Street Harassers“
Three men raped a homeless woman who was waiting for a bus in NYC
A Seattle, Washington, cis man was charged with a hate crime following the assault of a transwoman
Hey Baby video game is covered by: NY Times, NPR, Ms Magazine Blog, Feministe, and WPIX (w/video)

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Resource of the Week:

The Welsh Government’s excellent video “One Step Too Far” and the companion website.