Stop Street Harassment

Making Public Spaces Safe and Welcoming

Two Weeks Until Anti-Street Harassment Week!

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Dear Friends,
With much of the world confined to their home due to the COVID-19 virus, we are moving most of our activism for our 10th International Anti-Street Harassment Week online. (Though if you can get outside and want to take action there – you are welcome to!)

While there are far fewer people in public places right now, before long, we will be there again and now is the time to advocate for a safer environment for everyone, one where street harassment does not occur in the future. Further, when people are in public spaces now, there is a lot of anti-Asian and xenophobic harassment going on – and that is not okay.

So, between 19 to 25 April, please take some kind of action to promote safe public spaces!

Participate:
Participation in the Week is open to your ideas. Here are four virtual options:

  1. Go online to share your stories and information about street harassment using the hashtag #StopStreetHarassment across the week! Join the Sayfty tweet chat on April 20 at 11 a.m. EST / 3 pm UTC.
  2. Create a short video completing the phrase, ““If street harassment didn’t exist, I would….” and post it online, tagging @StopStHarassmnt and @CatCallsofNYC. Let us know what a world without street harassment would look like to you.
  3. Use chalk outside your home or pen/paper to write anti-harassment messages / pro-respect messages, take photos of the messages and share the photos online, tagging @StopStHarassmnt.
  4. Review information about standing up to street harassers, produced by Hollaback! and L’Oreal Paris. There will be a free virtual Zoom training on standing up to harassers offered by them and Sayfty on April 24, 4pm UTC/12pm EST in English. You must pre-register.

Let Us Know:
If you are organizing any online or offline actions or events, please complete this form or email StopStreetHarassment@Gmail.com with the information, and we will post it on our Events page. If you are at an organization/group, we also will list you as a Participating Co-Sponsor.

Thank you, and I hope you and your family are safe and healthy right now.

Also, this coming week, Hollaback! is offering three free bystander trainings on how to intervene and stop anti-Asian American harassment which has been escalating during the #COVID19 pandemic. Consider taking it if you’re free!

In Solidarity,
Holly

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