Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past few weeks.
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Street Harassment Stories:
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Ramallah Street Watch in Palestine
Street Harassment in South Africa
Many of the Hollaback sites
Street Harassment In the News, on the Blogs:
* Ebony, “STREET HARASSMENT: Every Woman’s War“
* All Africa, “Egypt: Movement Urges Interior Ministry to Put an End to Sexual Harassment“
* The Jerusalem Post, “Egyptian women battle harassment on the streets“
* The New Zealand Herald, “Catcalling – it’s not a compliment“
* World Pluse, “Street Harassment: How it looks like in Afghanistan“
* Huffington Post, “Sexual Harassment: IPhone App ‘Not Your Baby’ Suggests Responses“
* Jezebel, “Band of Homeless Men Stop a Creep from Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl“
* Shiny Shiny TV, “Not Your Baby street harassment app tells you how to respond to scumbags“
* Yale Daily News, “THURSTON: How studying abroad made me a feminist“
* Al-Akhbar, “The Widespread Plague of Sexual Harassment in Egypt“
* Relando Thompkins, “Aspiring Humanitarian Joins Efforts to End Street Harassment“
* Video: “Sexual abuse in Egypt is rampant, victims say – An Al-Monitor exclusive“
* Collective Action for Safe Spaces, “On hitting on that cute girl at the coffee shop“
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Announcements:
New:
* Stop Street Harassment welcomes and announces its new board of directors!
* New hotline to report sexual harassment cases – News – Aswat Masriya #Egypt #EndSH
Reminders:
* Harlow Project Seeking Participants For Street Harassment Web Video Series
* METRAC released a free “Not Your Baby App” to provide responses you can use when experiencing harassment
* Sign a petition about ending street harassment in Egypt.
* Stop Street Harassment recently incorporated as a nonprofit organization. Please donate so we can conduct a national street harassment study and gather much needed data documenting the problem.
* Contact Bowlmor and the New York City Transit to complain about this offensive subway ad.
* Activists in South Africa launched a website about street harassment
* The anti-sexual harassment public service announcement signs are now up in several Washington, DC metro stations!
* The Stop Street Harassment book is available in paperback for $15.
* Submit art about street harassment for the VoiceTool Product exhibit in San Francisco, CA
* The Adventures of Salwa campaign has a hotline for sexual harassment cases in Lebanon: 76-676862.
* In Bangalore, India, there is a helpline for street harassment 080 – 22943225 / 22864023
* Report #streetharassment in Pakistan at @NameAndShamePk, email nameandshame@ryse.pk, SMS 0314-800-35-68 or online at http://www.nameandshame.pk
10 Tweets from the Week:
1. @_MissBre Street harassment scares me. I don’t even defend myself because I have no idea where his head is.
2. @tinydancer06 It’s like the men of Chicago have never seen legs or cleavage before. #doubletakes #catcalls #wtf
3. @psichedelico insert tweet about how much i hate rape culture and street harassment.
4. @timmesa It is getting increasingly irritating to walk by a building with construction workers every day to get to work. #catcalls #Iamalmost40
5. @katyadodds I swear I get whistled an honked at more in Hawaii than I ever have in my life #catcalls #creepers
6. @maps4aid CCTVs to be installed, Helplines numbers to be posted to check Street Harassment in Barasat, West Bengal. http://bit.ly/P2MqVW #Win
7. @ashaberry You know what’s never cool? Street harassment. #funwithcreepers #waitfunisnottherightword
8. @FatFemPinUp Street harassment can be truly traumatic for women & the WORST thing you can do as a friend/lover/significant other is deny them validation
9. @joannajpost #Egypt anti street harassment initiative is awesome – let’s create something similar for #Israel http://harassmap.org
10. @MeLaMachinko The age old ‘wear your headphones even if u aren’t listening to music to ignore street harassment” trick… tried & true!
