Today we march, as so many women have done before us to say that we are NEVER to blame for rape and male violence. Those men who choose to commit these crimes are to blame. We march today to demand our right to live without the fear or reality of rape and male violence, we demand an end to male violence against women, we take back this night to win the day.
Join this year’s Reclaim the Night march!
Reclaim The Night
Saturday 27th November 2010
Assemble 6pm central London for women-only march followed by mixed rally and party at the Camden Centre, Euston till late. All welcome
Over the years the marches evolved to focus on rape and male violence generally, giving women one night when they could feel safe to walk the streets of their own towns and cities.
Today we walk for the same reasons. Because we still have not got these rights; because women are still blamed for rape and male violence. An ICM poll commissioned by Amnesty International in 2005 found that over one third of the British public surveyed believed that women were sometimes wholly or partly to blame if they were raped, for example if they had been drinking, if they flirted or dressed outrageously.
http://www.reclaimthenight.org/index.html
Or check out the sister marches if you cant make it… http://www.reclaimthenight.org/sister.html
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