Ending Male Violence Against Women

Post date: Oct 03, 2018 3:38:4 PM

The 2019 Fast for Nonviolence will focus on Ending Male Violence Against Women. Every project will focus on the many ways women are not safe in the world and how much better our world could be if women everywhere were safe.

In SLAM's time as an academy, three San Leandro High School girls or alumnae have been killed by their ex-boyfriends. This year our hearts were broken to hear that Mariah Davis, who had been missing, was found dead at Lake Chabot and was allegedly killed by an SLHS alumni ex-boyfriend.

This tragedy along with the spectacle of the Kavanaugh hearings, the President's mistreatment and despicable attitudes toward women, and the simple fact that women must endure male cat calls, comments, weight shaming, slut shaming, and pressures to be less than they are. Also, the fear of male violence, abduction, rape, and trafficking is a constant fear in the lives of women and girls everywhere.

SLAM students will create media campaigns focused on ending male violence against women.