Weekly Round Up: October 3, 2010 | Stop Street Harassment

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In the News, On the Blogs:

Announcements:

Is the book Stop Street Harassment at your library? If not, request it! You can also buy it online at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.c
HollaBack NYC is hiring a Program Director
HollaBack DC! is looking for a graphic design intern
The London Anti-Street Harassment Campaign is growing so much that it’s now the UK Anti-Street Harassment Campaign. Find out how you can get involved. ASH campaigns will be starting soon in Belfast, Edinburgh, and Manchester.
New HollaBacks will be launching soon in Los Angeles, Buenos Aires (@iHollabackBA), San Jose, Philadelphia, Berlin, and Paris!
@rosieswash Women, I’m organising an anti-street harassment meeting for Oct. please email me rosie.swash@guardian.co.uk if u want 2 join
RightRides is looking for interns & volunteers in NYC

Upcoming Events:

Oct. 12: HollaBack NYC is co-hosting a happy hour with Envision Williamsburg and Feministing in Brooklyn, NY
Oct. 12: Street harassment book talk at the Red Cross building, Pasadena, CA, 7 p.m.
Oct. 13: Street harassment book talk at Village Books, Pacific Palisades, CA, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 14: Street harassment book talk at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 4 p.m.
Oct. 16: Street harassment book talk at the library of the University of Alaska, Anchorage, 4 p.m.

10 Tweets from the Week:

Elderta I just love that the guys at the automobile shop have taught their parrot to catcall women as they walk by. NOT.
khanyisile Street harassment. RT @Yo_lin: These guys called me names last time, now they wanna talk to me.. Mxm.. I wish there was another route home
SuzBomb I am so unimpressed with the kind of Vancouver street harassment &assaults I keep hearing about from friends/witnessing myself
msmagazine RT @Anti_Intellect: Sexual harassment on the street virtually never happens 2 me. #MalePrivilege You’ll get over it
rightsandwrongs So my pitbull was a victim of #streetharassment by a man in a car making kissy noises & yelling “what’s the matter, boy?” What.
DianeMassage to the man in the livery cab on washington and st marks, do not make me stop my bike to tell you to stop catcalling me! #streetharassment
HKearl & your sons not 2 harass rt @sfxmaven @mkylemiller It’s never too early to train your daughter about what to do about street harassment.
clembastow @ruminski plenty of men seem to think unwanted attention/street harassment is “okay” if they’re “polite” about it.
notesandrainbws Was wondering if dying my hair bright red would increase street harassment…yep. Decidedly yep. Ugh.
BLANK_NOISE attn GUYS! did you intervene? tell us how. we want stories of guys intervening to stop street sexual violence/ #eveteasing #bnguy