A final #16Days message from our board member Lani!
16 Days of Activism: Day 16
16 Days of Activism: Day 15
Apply to join the first 2015 Blog Correspondents Cohort
Do you feel passionately about ending street harassment and do you like to write? We need YOU!
Stop Street Harassment is one of the top street harassment websites in the world and we’re recruiting new members for our first Blog Correspondents Program cohort of 2015. This is an unpaid, volunteer opportunity. Build your resume and add your voice to the global conversation about this important topic!
Your words will be read: the SSH blog receives an average of 30,000 unique readers per month.
Assignment:
From January to April, correspondents in the first cohort must commit to writing one blog post per month about street harassment issues in their community, region or country, four posts total. The topics could include incidents of street harassment covered in the news, activism to stop it, interviews with street harassment activists, and street harassment in popular culture, traditions or the news. You can also write pieces that tie street harassment to relevant related issues (such as racial profiling/racism, online harassment, and campus rape).
We aim to have geographic diversity among our cohort members. People of all genders, ages, regions are welcome to apply.
Applying:
Please complete this form by December 22, 2014. Applicants will be notified by December 27 and the term will begin January 1.
NOTE: If you prefer to write in a language other than English, please also indicate what language is most comfortable for you and you can send your writing sample in that language.
16 Days of Activism: Day 10
Our board member Dr. Laura S. Logan and the Radical Notion, the campus feminist student organization at Hastings College in Nebraska, are handing out oranges today. Each orange has a statement or statistic about gender violence to help raise awareness on campus. (Laura and the organization’s president Kaitlyn Ayres are pictured.) #16Days#orangeurhood
Man Punches Woman who Won’t Give Him Her Number
Oh no! Another story of escalation, in Chicago this time. I’m glad to hear a bystander helped out and that the man was caught!
“When a Bridgeport woman riding the “L” refused to give a man her phone number Monday, he followed her to another train car before putting her in a headlock and trying to steal her phone, prosecutors and witnesses said…
A witness who asked not to be named said he saw the attack unfold while sitting in his auto at a stoplight at Roosevelt and Wabash. He drove after Rosson, who ducked into a nearby restaurant on State Street. Several other bystanders were chasing Rosson on foot, the witness said.
Police arrested Rosson in the restaurant a few minutes later, court records show, and both the victim and several witnesses positively identified him as the attacker.
Rosson, who lives in the 2300 block of Spruce Road in south suburban Homewood, was charged with battery and attempted robbery.”