Reposted with permission from our friends at Stop Street Harassment. CASS & Stop Street Harassment met with WMATA as part of the Huairou Commission‘s Global Day of Action (February 19, 2013), called “Delhi and Beyond: Concrete Actions for Safer Cities.” A total of 50 organizations participated in the Global Day of Action, which aimed to help grassroots women and […]
Republished with permission from Unsuck DC Metro. Metro’s much ballyhooed efforts to curb sexual harassment got a lot of press, but it would appear there’s still a lot of work to be done to live up to the hype. From Laura who wrote the following to the Kojo Nnamdi show during Metro GM Richard Sarles’ January […]
On Thursday, January 24, CASS staff attended a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, to mark the release of Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s report, “Capitol Offense: Police Mishandling of Sexual Assault Cases in the District of Columbia.” (See video below.) According to HRW, which is an international nonprofit that conducts research […]
We at CASS are proud to announce that our amazing co-founder and executive director, Chai Shenoy, has won a 2012 Activist Award from the Washington Peace Center! This Thursday, December 8, Chai will be honored by the Washington Peace Center, along with 8 other local activists, for the work she has done to fight public […]
On Tuesday, November 19th, Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) joined hundreds of community members at the International Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil, held at the Metropolitan Community Church of DC in NW. Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1998 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith — a transgender graphic designer, columnist, and activist — to memorialize […]