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Men Can Stop Rape launches “Where Do You Stand” campaign

February 1, 2012

Yesterday, Men Can Stop Rape launched their new bystander intervention campaign geared towards addressing sexual violence on college campuses. “Where Do You Stand?” uses a number of tools such as trainings, posters, and media materials to encourage young men to become active bystanders to end sexual violence. According to Men Can Stop Rape’s press release,

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Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped

January 19, 2012

posted in: prevention

Zerlina Maxwell writes in her recent article Stop Telling Women How to Not Get Raped in Ebony Magazine that Holding women and girls accountable for preventing sexual assault hasn’t worked and so long as men commit the majority of rapes, men need to be at the heart of our tactics for preventing them.  Let’s stop

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Engaging men to eliminate violence against women

October 30, 2011

posted in: prevention

Last week the federal Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Housing and Urban Development hosted 10 regional Town Halls on Engaging Men and Boys in Eliminating Violence Against Women.  I had to opportunity to attend the session for Region IX held in Oakland, CA on October 27, 2011 where

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Where do you stand? New bystander program

August 19, 2011

posted in: campus,prevention

Men Can Stop Rape has just released its newest comprehensive bystander intervention program for men called Where Do You Stand? This program is designed to implement on college campuses.  This program builds on the strength of their Strength Campaign by including positive messages, promoting  healthy masculinity, and having action recommendations that highlight what can be

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Diversifying Leadership to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence

August 15, 2011

posted in: prevention

PreventConnect.org Join PreventConnect for our next web conference Diversifying Leadership: Building the Voice and Vision to Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence on August 30, 2011 (repeated on August 31, 2011.) Emily May of Hollaback and  Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence‘s Jeff Matsushita will join Annie Lyles of Prevention Institute to explore strategies to

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Engaging men to prevent sexual violence

June 27, 2011

posted in: prevention

“Will men take action to prevent sexual violence?” That was a question I  heard when I started in this work almost 30 years ago when I was among very few men engaged in this work. I have seen a remarkable change, especially in the last ten years.  Now activists and rape prevention organizations actively seek

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