No matter where you are in the world you can join us for One Student Day on 11.1.11. We invite you to celebrate with us and show the world that one sexual assault is too many and one student can make a difference. Watch the video from Kelly Addington, One Student co-founder.
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11.1.11
ONE STUDENT DAY is approaching and we would love nothing more than for you to join us in celebrating on 11.1.11. Here are seven suggestions for you to join the empowerment party, but don’t stop here! If you have a vision, embrace it and go for it. Let your creative juices flow and rejoice in the One Student festivities in a way that’s authentically you. Most importantly, pass the party vibes on to members of your community.
- Sign the One Student pledge. Take it even further by hosting a pledge signing event in your community. Set up a laptop station and invite folks to pledge online or provide the pledge in paper form.
- Wear your One Student pride and rock orange on One Student Day.
- Paint your palm and post. You can use markers or body paint to show the world you will be the one. Take a pic and tweet and/or post on the One Student Facebook page, use our festive hash tag #onestudentday. Hosting a “Be the One” station on campus is a great way to get your community involved. Besides, what else were you going to do with the leftover Halloween face paint?
Rape is Rape
An email from Shelby Knox is circulating (read below). Please take a couple minutes to sign the petition asking the FBI to change the archaic and limited defintion of rape. If you have already signed, please share with others. This is our chance to help make positive change. You can be the one! Learn more about the petition here.
Back in July, more than 130,000 Change.org members signed a petition asking the FBI to change their outdated definition of rape.
Big news! The New York Times is reporting that: “Greg Scarbro, the F.B.I.’s unit chief for the Uniformed Crime Report, said that the agency agreed that the definition should be revised and that an F.B.I. subcommittee would take up the issue at a meeting on Oct. 18.”
But no final decision has been made, so we need to keep up the pressure before Tuesday’s meeting and make sure the FBI knows that the whole country is watching. Click here to share the campaign on Facebook.
Thanks!
– Shelby
P.S. More big news: Thanks to a successful campaign by Change.org members in NYC, the Brooklyn police force (who had been trying to protect the community from a serial rapist by telling woman that short skirts would give “easy access” and showing graphic images without warning) will now undergo thorough training on how to deal with rape cases.
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Be a Part of One Student
We are very proud of our latest production. An enormous bear hug of gratitude to everyone who participated. Once again, we were moved by the folks we met and in awe of their willingness to share.
Follow this link to view: Be a Part of One Student
Watch, learn and of course we would love for you to share it with your people.
You can be the one!