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Week Without Violence

Taking Back Take Back the Night

“I’m marching for violence. Excuse me, ma’am, are you marching for violence?” one of the “Country’s Most Wanted Men”(according to his fraternity T-shirt) asks with a snicker.

I am marching to promote respectful relationships, free of violence, during Take Back the Night, a part of the YWCA’s Week Without Violence. Normally, I wouldn’t be here. My political activity is usually reserved for events with good music or an open bar. But, I decided maybe the world was in need of a good old-fashioned issue awareness when a comment that sounded like it came from a caveman escaped the lips of a friend. [more]