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If your experience with sexual harassment occurred on the DC bus/Metro system:
Please consider reporting to Metro Transit Police: www.wmata.com/harassment; 202-962-2121. (WMATA’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Policy, implemented in Spring 2012, is a result of CASS’s campaign. Read more here.)
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Hello Holla Back DC!
I’m sure by now most are aware of this incident. It didn’t happen in DC, but I think its a great example of how to handle street harassment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVdu9ziaWM
Yes we are! And we posted it in our twitter and facebook threads. but, we appreciate you sharing it with us.
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