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Let’s Talk Turkey About Manhood After Penn State By Rob Okun, WeNews commentator Allegations of child sex abuse at Penn State provide a teachable moment for male sports culture–and the rest of us: Being silent can now get you in trouble. Rob Okun says the NCAA should start running teach-ins about the new game rules [...]
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Talented artist David Cook and his entire band signed the Stand Up Guy Pledge without hesitation. They are the first contemporary music artists to sign the pledge. Thank you Kyle, Andy, Devin, Monty and David, you are all Stand Up Guys. View the full article here.
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It’s a consistent storyline in the media, involving powerful men in politics, sports, businesses and religion: Men behave with utter disregard for the dignity and humanity of women – using and abusing them at will, and acting as if they believe they are entitled to do so. These men seem to think that the ordinary rules of decent [...]
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Contact: Pete Navratil – 585-355-7418 Karen Messina – 585-752-5095 Stand Up Guys.org Email: karen@standupguys.org Stand Up Guys Co-Founder, Annie Lane, receives Verizon Wireless 11th Annual HopeLine Award Recognizing outstanding achievements in service to domestic violence victims and domestic violence prevention Rochester, NY., October 3, 2011 – On Sunday, September 25, 2011, Verizon Wireless presented Annie Lane, co-founder of [...]
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Vasiliy Baziuk/Messenger Post A “flash mob” performed a light-hearted and spirited dance at the Lilac Festival on Friday, May 20, 2011. The main goals of this flash mob was for the message of Stand Up Guys to be heard, and to raise awareness about domestic violence against women and children. Stand Up Guys’ aim is [...]
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The Crime Victim Awareness event here in Rochester was very successful, although we did not actually walk in the wind and rain. The event was held indoors at the Crime Victim Resource Center. Peggy Duffy from Monroe County Stop DWI did a wonderful job speaking and being the Master of Ceremonies. We opened with a [...]
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Canandaigua, N.Y. – Our community was shocked by the murder of Christine Sevilla by her husband, Tim Wells, an RIT professor. Truly this was a senseless and tragic death. What surprises us is that Sevilla’s murder is not being characterized as an act of domestic violence.
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Simply Put, We Are All Equal I have grown significantly in my life as of recent. After first meeting Nicole (and later falling in love with her), I was introduced to a topic that many men either oppose (because of simple ignorance of the true subject) or have no idea about. The subject, which I [...]
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Greece arrest tests new strangulation law Posted at: 11/19/2010 11:27 AM | Updated at: 11/19/2010 11:30 AM By: Berkeley Brean | WHEC.com News 10NBC is tracking down details on a strangulation case in Greece. The defendant is charged under a new law that makes strangulation a felony. It will be the first time the law is [...]
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