Report IT Rally for Victim’s Rights

February 16, 2008 · Filed Under Activism, Violence Against Women

Report IT I’m a little late in posting this, which I apologize for. I’ve known about this for a little while now and until I received an email from Angela Shelton, I remembered that I needed to write about this.

1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

Angela Shelton, Wendy Murphy, Angela Rose and PAVE have teamed up and created the Report IT campaign.

Sex crimes are the most under-reported crime in the US.

It is widely known that more than 80% of sex crimes go unreported and when they are reported, the victim is re-victimized by the police department as well as the juror or jury if their case makes it to court. In effort to shatter the silence that revolves around sexual assault and raise awareness about the amount of sex crime cases that go unreported, the Rally for Victim’s Rights will give survivors the voice and unity in their neighborhoods to demand justice for survivors of sex crimes.

Gather at your local court house with other survivors, friends of survivors and anyone else you can get to get themselves to their local court houses to say that survivors of sexual assault deserve a voice and justice! Report IT’s Rally for Victim’s Rights will take place in dozens of city court houses across the country on February 19 at noon.

For a list of cities already participating in the rally check after the jump. For a toolkit to hold a rally in your community, email info@pavingtheway.net and they will send you all the tools needed!

Everyone knows someone who has been sexually assaulted.

But February 19 is only the beginning!

While the Rally for Victim’s Rights starts on February 19, this campaign will turn into a nationwide state-to-state protest on April 29, which is Angela Shelton Day!

Cities already signed up to Report IT:
Albany, NY
Albemarle, NC
Anderson, IN
Asheville, NC
Athens, OH
Barrie, Ontario
Beverly Hills, CA
Blacksburg , VA
Boston, MA
Brownsville, TX
Chicago, IL
Fort Worth, TX
Harrisburg, PA
Hollidaysburg, PA
Honolulu, Hawaii
North Bay, Ontario
Okeechobee, FL
Olathe, KS
Omaha, NE
Philadelphia, PA
Radford, VA
Rolling Meadows, IL
Sarasota, FL
Spokane, WA
Virginia Beach, VA
Washington DC
Wheaton, IL
White Plains, NY