Safe public spaces. Freedom from harassment. The right to go where you want, when you want, wearing what you want.
This marks the start of the fourth annual International Anti-Street Harassment Week when people and groups worldwide work together to bring local and global attention to street harassment and when we collectively call for it to end. Together our voices grow stronger.
10 Things You Need to Know:
1. There are at least 150 groups in 23 countries that are participating + there will be thousands of individuals joining us.
2. Here are our events. If your action is not listed, please send me info/link as soon as possible, hkearl @stopstreetharassment.org
3. Here are ideas for action, including how to download the Stop Telling Women to Smile poster, info about a free phone app called Safetipin and details about our six Tweet Chats.
4. The tools page has updated logos in several languages and more flyers and shareable images you can use.
![EndSHFBcover](https://stopstreetharassment.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/EndSHFBcover.jpg)
5. Do you want to guest blog or have a blog post cross-posted on Stop Street Harassment during the week? Let me know, hkearl @stopstreetharassment.org.
6. We’ve started to get media coverage. If your action is covered in the news or if you write an op-ed or blog post, please send me the link and I’ll add it to the list and the wrap-up report.
7. Here is the 2014 photo album. Please send photos, or links to photo albums, to me as soon as they’re taken/posted and I’ll update the album in real time. Let’s be virtually part of and celebrate each other’s events!
8.Here’s the report form where you can say how your action went (no matter how big or small). This information will be used for the annual wrap-up report and potentially for articles about the week.
9. The week kicks off in a few hours with this virtual event:
30 March: Pixel Project, based in Malaysia, is hosting a Google+ hangout discussion about street harassment at 8:30 a.m. EDT with Ursula Singh, Executive at YUWA (Nepal), Hanna Lena Krüger, a ProChange Member (Germany) & me. There will be plenty of time for Q&A!
YouTube: http://is.gd/ISHWPixel
Google+: http://is.gd/ISHWPixelG
10. My thanks for your hard work to prepare events and actions so that this week we can join forces and demand public places that are free from harassment!!