FREE: Denim Day Logo Pin (Step Forward Take a Stand Against Rape)

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HISTORY OF DENIM DAY
ROME – ITALY, 1997
MORNING
An 18-year-old girl is picked up by her 45-year-old instructor for her very first driving lesson. An hour later, raped and abandoned by him in alley, she has to make her way back home. Undeterred, she reports the incident and the case is prosecuted. The driving instructor is convicted of rape and sentenced to jail.
MONTHS LATER
The perpetrator appeals the sentence. The case makes it all the way to the Italian Supreme Court, where the case against the driving instructor is overturned and the perpetrator is released.
In a statement released by the Head Judge, he argued, “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.” Enraged by the verdict, the women in the Italian Parliament launched into immediate action and protested by wearing jeans on the steps of the Italian Parliament building. This call to action motivated and emboldened the California Senate and Assembly to do the same—and a movement was born.
This year the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center of Warren County is organizing Denim Day in NJ, a sexual assault prevention education campaign. We are asking community members, elected officials, businesses, and students to make a social statement with their fashion statement—and wear jeans (or just something denim) as a visible protest against myths that surround sexual assault.

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