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 […]
Location: Bus stop for the 31/32/34 buses; Wisconsin Ave at Tenleytown Circle Time: Morning Rush Hour (5am-9:30am) I was walking past a bunch of commuters on my way down Wisconsin Avenue around 8:30 AM, and a man standing next to the busstop (sic) caught my attention by saying, “Hey lady!” When I looked over, he continued, “I’d love […]
Location: Metro – Blue and Red Lines (Franconia to Dupont); Dupont Area; Cobalt DC Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Got on train at Franconia around 10:30pm on Saturday January 19 and throughout the ride to Metro Center, got undressed with the eyes several times by two men. Upon reaching Metro Center, one of them got up and grabbed the […]
Location: Ft. Totten & Green Line (Metro) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) This occurred about a year ago, but I do want to give credit to good Metro employees. A young man got on my green line train at Ft Totten. He started aggressively flirting with/harassing the young women on the train (sitting very close, talking dirty). […]