April 7, 2017
NYC First Lady Joins Rally Against Street Harassment and Hate
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NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will join Hollaback!'s fifth annual Anti-Street Harassment Rally, as part of International Anti-Street Harassment Week (April 2-8, 2017).
Pioneering B-girl and performance artist La Roka aka Rockafella will emcee, and local speakers and performers will address gender-based and anti-Muslim harassment, culture change, and fighting back against misogyny and white supremacism. There will also be six breakout sessions and a chalk walk.
The event is hosted by Hollaback! -- an international movement working to end harassment in public spaces -- and co-hosted by 23 organizations and two New York City council members: the Anti-Violence Project, Arab American Association of New York, Breakthrough, Brooklyn-Queens NOW, Center for Anti-Violence Education, Day One, Feminist Self Defense, Get Women Cycling, Kanokwan Self-Defense, Let Your Voice Be Heard! Radio, the Movement Theatre Company, Mount Sinai SAVI Program, Occupy Kensington, #PaceUEndRape, Sakhi for South Asian Women, SoapBox Speakers, Inc., Sydnie Mosley Dances, Trans Women of Color Collective, Voices of Women Organizing, WITNESS, WORD at 4F, Young Feminists and Allies: NOW's Inaugural Virtual Chapter, and YWCA Brooklyn, as well as Council Member Andrew Cohen and Council Member Rafael Espinal.
We believe in a world where all people have the freedom to move through public space, participate in civic life, and reach their full potential. Although the current political climate has set that world further from our reach, we're as determined as ever to bring about change.
Hollaback! (ihollaback.org) is a global movement to end harassment powered by a network of grassroots activists. We work together to understand harassment, ignite public conversations, and develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces. We leverage new technologies to bring voice to an issue that historically has been silenced, and to build leadership within this movement to break the silence.
The rally will be held on Saturday, April 8th, from 2-4 p.m. at New York City's Tompkins Square Park, 141 East 7th Street at the Old Bandshell.
For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1168505523248809/
