Date/Time
4/1/2017 - 4/30/2017
12:00 AM - 11:30 PM Central
12:00 AM - 11:30 PM Central
Event Type(s)
Chamber Member Event
Fundraiser
Fundraiser
Event Description
DENIM DAY April 26th 2017
Denim Day is a campaign to prevent Sexual abuse through education and public awareness. April is Sexual Violence Awareness Month, and Denim Day is a call to action for all people to come together by wearing denim as a visible sign of protest against sexual violence. By participating in Denim Day on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 you can play a role in the prevention of sexual assault. This year we ask community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion on April 26, 2017 to wear jeans as a visual sign of your support for survivors of sexual violence, and participants will also receive a sticker letting everyone know why they're wearing jeans. We can stand together to support survivors and show that we will not accept sexual violence in our community.
Why denim? Denim Day has been internationally celebrated since 1999 in protest of an Italian Supreme Court ruling that overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing jeans. In 1992, an 18-year-old girl in Italy was raped by her driving instructor during a driving lesson. He was convicted, but in 1999, the Court overturned the verdict on the premise that “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.”
Women of the Italian Legislature protested the decision by wearing jeans to work. As news of the decision spread, so did the protest. In April 1999, a social service agency in Los Angeles established the first Denim Day in the United States.
Centers Against Abuse and Sexual Assault (CAASA), carries on this tradition. We wear denim to dispel harmful myths about sexual violence and survivors.
CAASA is a non-profit agency that provides services to victims of sexual abuse. CAASA served new sexual assault survivors each year. It is happening here and it takes local awareness, protest, and your help to end sexual violence.
We invite your workplace or school to join us! Raise awareness and funds to help survivors of sexual assault by inviting employees to donate $5 to CAASA for the chance to wear jeans for a day or contact us for Denim Day stickers that you can wear any time. All donations raised will fund CAASA to offer resources to survivors of sexual abuse.
If you are interested please contact Misty at mistyw@caasaonline.org or 712-362-3200 for Denim Day packets that include posters and stickers representing Denim Day and a return envelope for donations. Thank you for your commitment to services for survivors of sexual abuse!
Denim Day is a campaign to prevent Sexual abuse through education and public awareness. April is Sexual Violence Awareness Month, and Denim Day is a call to action for all people to come together by wearing denim as a visible sign of protest against sexual violence. By participating in Denim Day on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 you can play a role in the prevention of sexual assault. This year we ask community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion on April 26, 2017 to wear jeans as a visual sign of your support for survivors of sexual violence, and participants will also receive a sticker letting everyone know why they're wearing jeans. We can stand together to support survivors and show that we will not accept sexual violence in our community.
Why denim? Denim Day has been internationally celebrated since 1999 in protest of an Italian Supreme Court ruling that overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing jeans. In 1992, an 18-year-old girl in Italy was raped by her driving instructor during a driving lesson. He was convicted, but in 1999, the Court overturned the verdict on the premise that “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.”
Women of the Italian Legislature protested the decision by wearing jeans to work. As news of the decision spread, so did the protest. In April 1999, a social service agency in Los Angeles established the first Denim Day in the United States.
Centers Against Abuse and Sexual Assault (CAASA), carries on this tradition. We wear denim to dispel harmful myths about sexual violence and survivors.
CAASA is a non-profit agency that provides services to victims of sexual abuse. CAASA served new sexual assault survivors each year. It is happening here and it takes local awareness, protest, and your help to end sexual violence.
We invite your workplace or school to join us! Raise awareness and funds to help survivors of sexual assault by inviting employees to donate $5 to CAASA for the chance to wear jeans for a day or contact us for Denim Day stickers that you can wear any time. All donations raised will fund CAASA to offer resources to survivors of sexual abuse.
If you are interested please contact Misty at mistyw@caasaonline.org or 712-362-3200 for Denim Day packets that include posters and stickers representing Denim Day and a return envelope for donations. Thank you for your commitment to services for survivors of sexual abuse!
Location
Contact Person
Misty Wolff
(phone: 7123623200)
(phone: 7123623200)
Details
No Cost to participate. We only ask that you donate $5 to CAASA to support sexual assault survivors by wearing jeans on 4/26/17. We have stickers to show your support in our office. Please participate this year!
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