UltraViolet, as well as other gender justice, tech accountability, and pro-democracy organizations, have launched a joint campaign in response. In a petition with over 29,000 signatures at the time of this writing, they call on Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri to stop censoring posts about the Cornell case.
UH has updated its sexual assault policy to include a zero-tolerance stance after an ad campaign sieged the campus on Facebook, claiming the school has a rape problem.
Mic’s Elizabeth Plank joins José Díaz-Balart to talk about the domestic violence PSA that will air during Sunday’s Super Bowl, and what message the NFL is hoping to send by airing the 30-second ad.
Marissa Alexander, a domestic violence survivor and mother of three, was allowed to return home to her children Tuesday after nearly three years in jail for firing a warning shot to fend off an attack from her abusive estranged husband. She faced upwards of 60 years in prison, despite the fact that the shot harmed no one and was issued in defense of her life.
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The ad, created by the progressive advocacy group Ultraviolet, includes a dramatic video of a uniformed football player tackling a woman without a helmet. The video notes that 55 domestic abuse cases in the NFL have gone unanswered under the leadership of league commissioner Roger Goodell, and it ends with the hashtag “#GOODELLMUSTGO.”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell may have thought he put the league’s mishandling of the Ray Rice domestic assault case behind him when Robert Mueller released his independent report earlier this month, but some aren’t so ready to forgive and definitely not to forget. The national women’s advocacy organization UltraViolet has plans to resurrect its “#GoodellMustGo” banners, which flew over certain regular-season games last year, for the NFC and AFC championship games on Sunday.
The prosecution of a school administrator at the center of a notorious rape case settled out of court on Monday. An anti-rape-activist considers the deal excessively lenient and worries about what it means for a related prosecution of another school official.
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