Last Day to Vote: Hollaback!

You got us here, now help us seal the deal. Give your five star rating to Hollaback and help us win the Knight News Challenge.

Over the past month 1,732 of you have checked out our application, making us the most viewed project of the competition. Even more impressive, 102 of you have voted for our project, securing us the most votes. But yesterday, our competitors showed their poor sportsmanship by slamming our project with one star votes and sinking Hollaback! from #1 to #15. It's your take-no-shit attitude that has made our project a success over the past five years. So let's rally on this cold winter day hollaback! at these haters to get this project funded.

This is your chance to fight street harassment worldwide. Vote now. Voting ends today.

Hollaback is KYW Newsradio's Web Pick of the Day!

Reprinted from the KYW's site by KYW's Bob Bicknell:

At last. Folks in the Big Apple and plenty of other cities have a chance to fight back against those who harass you on the streets.

If you get whistled at, ogled, or otherwise annoyed by people while you’re trying to live your life, snap their picture with your cell phone and shame them at hollabacknyc.com.

There are sites for other U.S. and foreign cities, just look for their direct links on the left hand side of the page.

Go to HollaBackNYC.com.

Interview with HollabackNYC co-founder Emily May!

Check out Emily's interview on The Daily Femme! And for those of you curious where Hollaback is heading:

Where would you like to see this site and program be in 10 years?

In ten years HollabackNYC will be part of a larger organization called Hollaback!, which will be the pre-eminent anti-street harassment organization worldwide. The number of Hollaback affiliates will have grown from 20 to 50, and instead of blogs and cell phone cameras, we will be using smart phone applications and GPS mapping to track street harassment and break the silence. By 2020, there will be a notable decrease in the amount of street harassment worldwide, and I will take a much-deserved vacation. Until then, Hollaback!

Time is Running out: Vote for Hollaback 2.0!

As you know, we have made it to the second round of the Knight Foundation! To win, we need your help. Give Hollaback! your five star vote here.

Voting ends on Sunday!

Pinched by a Prick

This guy was sexually harassing my friend by groping & pinching her behind! I asked politely to apologize, he didn't, so I took a video...

Holla Right Back 'Atcha

Perv taking a pic of me on train.

Submitted by E.

Cell Phones Used to Report Rapes in Guinea

Mobile phones are being used increasingly across the world to track violence against women, although there are still challenges. Check out this article from Gender Across Borders:

A women’s rights advocate in Guinea noted that “some lost their lives particularly because they took pictures; this is a new trend in Guinea. It is a first in our history. Guineans now have access to mobile phones and, despite their degrading nature, women are in the process of breaking silence and participating in circulating pictures.”

The article goes on to talk about the pitfalls of citizen journalism, and how many of the images have not been picked up by the traditional media because their credibility is questioned. Still, these images have started a conversation and brought attention to rapes that would have otherwise gone unreported -- ultimately breaking the silence. My heart goes out to those that lost their lives in the process. They are truly heroes, HOLLAheroes.

To read the full article, click here.