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Liesel Sheppard

Men Can Stop Rape - 3 views

www.mencanstoprape.org/index.htm

gender violence activism campaign prevention

shared by Liesel Sheppard on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Liesel Sheppard on 26 Mar 10
     
    Men Can Stop Rape is an organization dedicated toward mobilizing the male youth to speak out against violence against women. The website advocates males to come together and work alongside women in order to promote healthy relationships and gender equality. Men Can Stop Rape provides a variety of solutions for men and ways to become involved such as through attending events, trainings, and presentations.
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  • Kelly Westphal on 01 Apr 10
     
    This site is one of the more important sites we have bookmarked. While women can and do a phenomenal job of educating people about violence against women and bringing it to an end, we can't do anything unless we are able to educate men. Mobilizing men to stand up against rape and violence against women within their own lives and peer groups is crucial to ending violence against women (and men).
  • Courtney Connors on 06 Apr 10
     
    Too often when we discuss sexual abuse and rape do we question, "what can women do in the future to prevent these heinous acts and what did they do wrong to cause them?" We should take note that far more often than not, the perpetrator is a male while the victim is a female. Thus, the appropriate debate should be why do men take out their aggression physically and sexually on females and what can they do to stop this wave of male-dominated violence in the near future? This website encourages its males viewers to "create a culture free from violence" through campaigns, media works, events, personal success stories. It also asks what constitutes the norm of social "rape culture" today and asks the viewers to reconsider and transform this definition to accommodate reality.
  • Merretta Dickinson on 12 Apr 10
     
    I thought this was a great way for men, especially young men to learn healthy ways to be masculine, as well as ways that they can help to stop rape. I really liked the section where they discuss their MOST (Men of Strength) program. I think providing spaces for young men to learn about healthy masculinity is extremely important in stopping rape, and this can probably be very effective. Getting men to stand up and do something is a great step in the right direction to ending violence against women, and I think this organization does a good job at showing ways to do this.
  • Iraimi Mercado on 13 Apr 10
     
    This is a great website because its main focus is to educate men and prevent violence against women. I found the "Strength campaign" to be very interesting because it is a campaign that can be implemented within many organizations. As I was reading through their campaign adds I noticed how they used the phrase, "Our Strength is Not for Hurting" which is used to show men that strength those not mean violence.
  • Iraimi Mercado on 13 Apr 10
     
    This is a great website because its main focus is to educate men and prevent violence against women. I found the "Strength campaign" to be very interesting because it is a campaign that can be implemented within many organizations. As I was reading through their campaign adds I noticed how they used the phrase, "Our Strength is Not for Hurting" which is used to show men that strength those not mean violence.
  • Jennifer Salazar on 14 Apr 10
     
    I'm an absolute advocate for men to speak out against violence towards women. I believe it is critical that men become allies for this cause because essentially men can influence male culture more than women can. If men begin to condemn violence towards women than the passive notion amongst men can change to one of proactive means. Men are also influential for younger males and may often be mimicked by these younger males, so if you practice what you preach it can really make a difference.
Liesel Sheppard

SAIV - The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence - 1 views

www.saiv.net/index.htm

activism resources education intimate violence prevention

shared by Liesel Sheppard on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Liesel Sheppard on 26 Mar 10
     
    The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence is an organization that advocates awareness on intimate violence as a global issue. The website provides information on family life and focuses on strengthening the partnership between parents and children.
  • Michelle Seidman on 03 Apr 10
     
    I think this website is really important because it focuses on intimate violence which affects not only women but children as well. The majority of the other bookmarked websites primarily discuss violence against women, and although that is obviously extremely important, I think it is also very important to look at how violence against women in the home can affect children and the ways to help families cope with intimate violence and the ways we as a world can try and stop it. SAIV works to raise awareness about this issue that occurs around the globe by grassroots movements and by bringing these issues to different sectors of the government, two very important movements that help in creating change. This website and SAIV are very important to our class because they work to bring to light intimate violence as a global issue and the ways we can become active to stop the violence and help families affected by intimate violence around the globe.
Michelle Seidman

Home | Say NO - UNiTE - 0 views

www.saynotoviolence.org

activism campaign advocate global abuse action

shared by Michelle Seidman on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Michelle Seidman on 26 Mar 10
     
    "Say NO- UNiTE End Violence Against Women" is a campaign out of UNIFEM which aims to end violence against women worldwide through the activism, support, and help of people. The objective is have 100,000 "actions" performed globally by November 2010 that in some way help end violence against women, such as working in a shelter, donating money to an organizations, or taking an activist stance. There is a section where people can write in their name to stop the violence against women and tell governments to "make ending violence against women a top priority." I think we should all sign and try to take action!
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