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<\/a><\/p>\nThe week included a No Shame rally the day before Halloween whose core theme was “No more blaming the victim!”<\/p>\n
As in past years, during Halloween weekend itself TBTN\u00a0facilitated a Safe Space at the Pardall Center. Advocates from the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center, UCSB Counseling &\u00a0Psychological Services (CAPS), and UCSB Health and Wellness, as well as student volunteers\u00a0were\u00a0on site. Campus Advocacy & Education (CARE)\u00a0was\u00a0also available through their crisis hotline number.<\/p>\n
TBTN hosted a social in the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, where they also held most of\u00a0their weekly meetings.\u00a0The evening included\u00a0food, drinks, and excellent conversation on fighting sexual assault in your everyday life. Attendees even got a free T-shirt.<\/p>\n TBTN had an information booth at V-Day in Storke Plaza. V-Day<\/a> is an international movement to end\u00a0violence against women and girls. As stated on the V-Day website, on Valentines Day, 1998, Eve Essler\u2014who wrote the groundbreaking Vagina Monologues\u2014with a group of women in New York City, established V-Day. Originally staffed by volunteers, the organization’s seed money came from a star-studded, sold out benefit performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, a show that raised $250,000 in a single evening.\u00a0V-Day’s mission is simple. It demands that violence against women and girls must end. To do this, once a year, in February, Eve allows groups around the world to produce a performance of the play, as well as other works created by V-Day, and use the proceeds for local individual projects and programs that work to end violence against women and girls, often shelters and rape crisis centers. What began as one event in New York City in 1998 today includes over 5,800 V-Day events annually.<\/p>\n Each year TBTN organizes a spring quarter rally that marches from campus into IV. It started with a call for artists of all kinds.<\/p>\n And included making custom T-shirts.<\/p>\n The rally started on campus and took to the streets of IV. It was a wet and windy day. But the spirits of the marchers remained undaunted!<\/p>\n The marchers came together at Anisq ‘Oyo’ Park in IV to support each other. The evening included creating a safe space for victims of sexual assault to tell their stories if they chose to.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0TAKE BACK THE NIGHT SOCIAL<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nV-DAY INFORMATION BOOTH<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nANNUAL RALLY<\/h3>\n
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