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“SAFE STREETS AZ GATHERS INFO, CREATES NETWORK OF SUPPORT TO END HARASSMENT”

SAFE STREETS AZ GATHERS INFO, CREATES NETWORK OF SUPPORT TO END HARASSMENT
In Activist Interviews | on 10.08.11 | by HKearl | Comments ( 0 )

Safe Streets AZ is a pilot program of Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault that launched in July to address public harassment, particularly harassment aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified youth and young adults. Stephanie Arendt is the Senior Prevention Educator at SACASA and agreed to talk to Stop Street Harassment about the new program.

http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/2011/10/safestreetsaz/

“Street Harassment: a real problem that requires legal regulation” from Huffington Post

Street Harassment: A Real Problem that Requires Legal Regulation

Holly Kearl
Posted: March 12, 2010 04:43 PM

“Do you remember when it was legal for a man to make sexually explicit or sexist remarks to a woman at work? I don’t. While sexual harassment in the workplace still happens, it became illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 19 years before I was born.

Do you remember when it was legal for a man to make sexually explicit or sexist remarks to a woman on the street or at a bus stop? I do. Sexual harassment in public is legal. But it shouldn’t be.”

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