| Sexual Assault & Violence Awareness Week "Take Back the Night" & Clothesline Project
If Not For Yourself, Then For Your. . .
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Take a Stand!! Take Back the Night!!
The Wellness Center, Rape Education and Prevention Program (REPP), and Peer Health Education Program are hosting: “Take Back the Night” Rally and March and ”The Clothesline Project” Take Back the Night" (TBTN) “Take Back the Night” rallies and marches began in England as a protest against the fear that women encountered walking the streets at night. The first Take Back the Night in the United States occurred in San Francisco in 1978, with more than 5000 women from 30 states participating. Today, marches are held in numerous cities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, India, and Europe. See Santa Clara University's TBTN Photos here
Rallies and marches have spread across the nation on college campuses and local communities with the purpose of unifying women and men in an awareness and education of violence against women, allowing participants to symbolically "Take Back the Night" by walking the streets feeling safe. The event is a collaboration of community, campus and other interested persons who are ready to take a stand against violence and make the night safe for everyone. TBTN is an empowering experience for men and women around the world, acting as a vehicle for reaffirmation of self and allowing survivors to come forth and rid themselves of hatred, shame, self doubt and fear.
The SCU Take Back the Night Rally will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 17, 2005, in the Bronco. Speakers will include Denise Carmody, Lisa Millora from the Office of Student Life, a rape crisis counselor from the YWCA rape crisis center, Professor Larry Nelson from Philosophy department, and SCU students. Following the rally, a candlelight march will proceed through the campus residential and surrounding neighborhood communities.
The march will conclude with the annual “Survivor’s Speak” Open-Mic event in Dunne Basement beginning at approximately 8:30p.m. This session is held to provide survivors and loved ones of survivors a space to unite and share their stories, poems, songs, and expressions in an effort to raise awareness and promote healing.
The Clothesline Project is a powerful visual display of t-shirts made by survivors and loved ones of survivors affected by sexual assault, rape, incest, child sexual abuse, hate crimes, and domestic violence. Members of the SCU community will be constructing a clothesline on the Santa Clara Mall for the week of February 14 -19, 2005. All shirts have been made by members of the SCU community.
Historically, "Clothesline Project" T-shirts have been decorated according to the following color scheme:
WHITE shirts are for women who have died in violence YELLOW or BEIGE shirts are for women who have been battered or assaulted RED, PINK, or ORANGE shirts are for women who have been raped or sexually assaulted BLUE or GREEN shirts are for women survivors of incest or child sexual abuse PURPLE or LAVENDER shirts are for women attacked because of their sexual orientation For more information on the history of the Clothesline Project and photos of other projects, please view the following links: http://www.clotheslineproject.org/index.htm & http://www.sfnow.org/clothes.php
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