"🚨 Safety isn’t just about caution — it’s about connection.
In numbers, there’s power. In unity, there’s protection. 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🛡️

✅ Check out our quick-read blog on how “Safety in Numbers” can protect lives, especially in vulnerable communities.
💬 Drop your own advice in the comments!

👉 https://streetcare.us/blog_safety-in-numbers-quick-tips/

#CommunitySafety #StreetCare #UnhousedAwareness #SafetyInNumbers #UrbanSupport #OutreachMatters #ProtectEachOther #WalkWithCare #BeVigilant #TogetherSafe #CivicCare #MutualSupport

Be WATER: arrive like a flood, disperse like steam

This is the technique learned from Hong Kong protests in 2019.

https://youtu.be/J7j0ROZxyZk?feature=shared
#protest #safetyinnumbers #nokingsday #protests #organize #news #uspol #politics
https://www.gq.com/story/hong-kong-protest-advice
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#GirlsFightBack - College, K-12, Private groups, Advocates, Conferences, & More

"The Girls Fight Back seminar is designed to be a safe space for #women, #femme, and #girls including #cis, #trans, #nonbinary, and #GenderNonConforming individuals, to learn about verbal and physical #SelfDefense strategies. This program is great for colleges, sororities, high schools and other all women+ groups who want to learn skills to be their own best protector. We combine core values, a fun and empowering attitude, and the best safety and self-defense methods available. You are worth fighting for!"

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The program is 75 minutes + Q&A and includes these key components:

- Using your intuition

- Foundations of safety

- Recognizing tools of manipulation

- How to be an active bystander and a supportive ally

- The definition of consent

- How to support a survivor

- How to set boundaries that work for you

- Verbal de-escalation skills [NOT my strong point]

- The basics of physical self-defense in our Badass Basics

- Plus a review of improvised weapons, ground fighting, and how to sign up for a full-contact adrenaline based self-defense course near you!

Programs available In Person, Virtually, or Hybrid [I saw that there are virtual one-on-one sessions for $99. There also could be programs in your area. If you can't afford a session, there are some good resources on the website.]

FMI:
https://www.girlsfightback.com/programs

#ToxicMasculinity #SelfDefense #SafetyInNumbers #FightBack #ActiveBystander #GulabiGangs

So, when I was in my 30's back in the 1990's, I lived in Boston. Having been assaulted in high school (and having survived some other stuff that I won't get into here), I knew enough to wear long coats, always carry weapons (and know how to use them), and walk with a scowl on my face (not hard, since RBF is my default). I took risks -- walked alone, took shortcuts down alleyways -- but I always walked with a determined stride (not fast), and looked as though I was ready to kill someone (in my head, I was). I never got mugged or attacked -- unlike my friends who walked fast, were giggly or nervous, or wore revealing outfits. Very often, I was the one who escorted my friends (both male and female) home from the bar. It truly sucks that things have gotten worse for people (especially women and GBLTQ folks) instead of better. I've never had expectations of safety, but I can appreciate wanting a world where people can feel safe wherever they go. Until that happens, I will always look to defend those who are bullied and attacked. It's just who I am.

#SelfDefense #SafetyInNumbers

Emboldened ‘#manosphere’ accelerates threats and demeaning language toward women after US election

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO
Updated 11:10 AM EST, November 30, 2024

CHICAGO (AP) — "In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm.

"It’s a response to an emboldened fringe of right-wing 'manosphere' influencers who have seized on Republican Donald Trump ’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online. Many have appropriated a 1960s abortion rights rallying cry, declaring 'Your body, my choice' at women online and on college campuses.

"For many women, the words represent a worrying harbinger of what might lie ahead as some men perceive the election results as a rebuke of reproductive rights and women’s rights.

“'The fact that I feel like I have to carry around pepper spray like this is sad,' said Perez, a 19-year-old political science student in Wisconsin. 'Women want and deserve to feel safe.' [TBH, I've never felt 100% safe anywhere (except maybe in the woods), and always had items that could be used as weapons on hand. It sucks that things have gotten worse, not better, in my lifetime].

"Isabelle Frances-Wright, director of technology and society at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank focusing on polarization and extremism, said she had seen a 'very large uptick in a number of types of misogynistic rhetoric immediately after the election,' including some “extremely violent misogyny.'"

https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-election-womens-rights-social-media-d5cea53480437ac8bf837aaa821e5681

#ToxicMasculinity #MAGA #SelfDefense #Misogyny #SafetyInNumbers #GulabiGangs #SituationalAwareness #WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #ReproductiveRights