Please join Winnemucca Domestic Violence Services (WDVS) in showing support for Denim Day USA on Wednesday, April 23!
This year marks the 15th celebration of Denim Day. For those not familiar with this event, Denim Day is an annual violence prevention day sponsored by the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Peace Over Violence. Denim Day especially focuses on raising awareness about abuse and violence against women and children. Close to 10 million people across the country participated in 2013.
Participating in Denim Day provides a wonderful opportunity for you and/or your organization to show solidarity with survivors of abuse around the country and to think about how we can work in our personal and professional lives to reduce violence in our communities. Please call WDVS at (775) 625-1313 to obtain your pair of jeans, posters, brochures and pins!
The campaign was originally triggered by a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped her rapist remove her jeans, thereby implying consent. The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim. Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in response to this case and the activism surrounding it. Since then, wearing jeans on Denim Day has become a symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault.
In this rape prevention education campaign we ask community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual assault. This year's Denim Day will be held on April 23, 2014.
WDVS is a 501(c) 3, non-profit organization dedicated to providing victims and their children with a safe environment free from violence and fear of violence while educating the community on the signs and effects of domestic and sexual abuse.
Peace Over Violence (peaceoverviolence.org) is a Los Angeles based sexual and domestic violence prevention center building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence.
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