Take Back the Night

Take Back the Night is an international event, with marches and rallies occurring around the world since 1976. In that year, in Belgium, women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women walked together holding candles to protest the ways in which violence permeates the lives of women worldwide.
   
As part of the worldwide movement to "take back the night," women will walk without fear through the night and reclaim the streets, which for many years have been sources of fear and violence.

Take Back the Night is organized by an alliance of local community service agencies, universities, religious organizations, governmental entities, businesses, and private citizens.

Students enrolled in WS 450 - Student Activism in Theory and Practice organize the Take Back the Night march and rally.

TBN 2011

Take Back the Night, a rally and march to bring awareness about gendered violence, is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 15.

4-5 p.m., Library Events Area–Cunningham Memorial Library, Joshua Philips, 1800 Miles Striving to End Sexual Violence One Step at a Time

5:30-6 p.m., DEDE I, Resource and Information Fair (African American Cultural Center, Counseling Center (Bystander Intervention), Counsel on the Domestic Abuse, Men Can Stop Rape, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of Diversity, Student Democrats, Student Republicans, Vagina Monologues, and Women’s Studies Programs)

6-6:30 p.m., DEDE I, Rally-Theme: “Fight like a Girl, Love like a Boy”

6:30-7:15 p.m.- March

On the day of the event, we ask students, faculty, and staff to wear purple–our version of a “purple out.”

Also, we invite Take Back the Night participants to bring donations to DEDE I to support the Council on Domestic Abuse:

toilet paper
paper towels
laundry detergent
dishwashing soap
socks
sweat pants
sweat shirts
rolls of stamps
and Terre Haute bus passes

 

COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE (C.O.D.A.)

1400 Hulman Street, Terre Haute IN   47802
812.234.3441   

E-Mail Address:  codadirector@verizon.net

http://codaterrehaute.org/
Provides a safe, secure place for victims of abuse.  Provides legal advocacy and support to victims of abuse.

 

DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT HOTLINE
(812) 232-1736 or (800) 566-2632

 

Updated January 31, 2009 [MM]