Rally against street harassment April 5th in NYC

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From: Emily May <[email protected]>
Date: March 31, 2014 at 8:18:13 PM EDT
To: Emily May <[email protected]>
Subject: MEDIA ADVISORY: 4/5 NYC Rally Against Street Harassment, 12 foot tall "Cat Against Catcalls" to be unveiled



Contact: Emily May
[email protected]
cell: 646-823-3082

RALLY AGAINST STREET HARASSMENT
12 foot tall “Cat Against Catcalls” to be unveiled

What: The rally against street harassment is part of international anti-street harassment week (March 30-April 5). The event will be hosted by La Roka and will include 20 speakers, mini-workshops on self-defense, wheat-pasting, bystander intervention, and a chalk walk. We’ll also being unveiling a new public art project: a 12 foot tall “cat against catcalls,” that will be placed in high density harassment areas following the rally.

Who: The event is co-hosted by 47 organizations including Hollaback!, an international movement working to end street harassment (www.ihollaback.org), Girl Be Heard, Gotham Girls Roller Derby, Arab American Association of New York, BABE, Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, bklyn boihood, Bronx AIDS Services (DBA-BOOM!) Health, Center Against Domestic Violence Center for Anti-Violence Education, Community Driven Solutions, CONNECT, Don't Harass Me, Bro, Feminist Dialogue, GEMS, Girl Be Heard, Let Your Voice Be Heard! Radio, Mount Sinai SAVI Program, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, Price of Silence, Sakhi, Sayfty, Soapbox, Inc: Speakers Who Speak Out, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, The Feminist Society at NYU, Trans Women of Color Collective of Greater NY, Violence Intervention program, Women In Media & News, Young Feminists & Allies, Virtual NOW Chapter, YWCA of Brooklyn, STEPS to End Family Violence, New York City Anti-Violence Project, NYAWC, Brooklyn-Queens NOW, Gotham Girls Roller Derby, Safe Horizon, Councilmember Lander, Councilmember Palma, Girls for Gender Equity, Hollaback!, Move the Fuck Over Bro, NOW-NYC, NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, Stop Street Harassment, Stop Telling Women to Smile, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, The Applied Theatre Collective, and Councilmember Levin.

Where: New York City, Washington Square Park, Garibaldi Square (east of the fountain).

When: April 5th, 2014, from 1-2pm. Speakers (1-2pm), mini-workshops (2-2:30), and chalk walk (2:30-3).

Live tweet the event: #endSHnyc

About Hollaback! Hollaback (ihollaback.org) is a nonprofit and movement to end street harassment powered by a network of local activists around the world. We work together to better understand street harassment, to ignite public conversations, and to develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces.

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Emily May
Executive Director
Hollaback!
ihollaback.org
twitter: @ihollaback
facebook: facebook.com/ihollaback

Need more info on what we do? Watch this two minute overview of our work, check out my MAKERS interviews and TEDxWomen talk and read our 2013 State of the Streets Report, profiling the work of our sites internationally.

Hollaback!
30 3rd Avenue, #800B
Brooklyn, NY 11217
347-889-5510

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