Public Meeting (For Gender Justice) at UTC on January 7th, 2013 at 5.00 pm.
For all those who feel protesting and demonstrating is an ineffective means of expressing yourselves, here is a chance for you to contribute.

There will be a Public Meeting held at United Theological College, Benson Town, Bangalore (http://www.utcbangalore.in/contact_us.htm) on Jan 7th, 2013, Monday at 5.00 pm  to discuss the next steps to be taken in the fight for Gender Justice.

The meeting is spearheaded by the collective 'Men against Sexual VIolence, Men for Gender Justice' that organised 'Freedom Miles Walk from Basvangudi to Jayanagar'  held on 29th Dec, 2012 and  'Men against Sexual VIolence, Men for Gender Justice' protest held on 30 December 2012 at Town Hall.

The meeting on Jan 7th  a follow up the the meeting held on 31st Dec, 2012 at Cunningham Road where 40 people participated. The issues discussed at that meeting, broadly, were:

1. Reforms in the Law
2. Working with the Police
3. Joint and Individual Memorandums to Political Parties to cleanse them of criminals
4. Letters to State and Central Governments on the same
5. Representation of women in Parliament
6. Have Political parties have Women's safety as a part of their political agenda
7. Local actions in neighbourhoods
8. Take the help of Stree SHakti groups to spread awareness in the areas that they operate
9. Crisis Intervention Mechanisms
10. Helpline Systems
    
    And my favourites
11. An app on the lines of Tech Mahindra's 'Fight Back' App. This App tracks the user's location and sends SOS messages to the user's selected contacts by pressing a panic button.It tracks location using GPS. It is available for the public,  free on Android and Blackberry and this is the website : http://www.fightbackmobile.com/welcome
    
    There is also another app called B Safe Safety Alarm. I do not know yet if it is similar. I have downloaded it. It is available for Android here :https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bipper.app.bsafe&hl=en
12. A member at the meeting spoke about how he and his friends were working on a similar app (geotagging; mapping places that were unsafe,the  number of harrasment incidents at various places etc ) and was enlisting the support and expertise of designers, social media experts et al to change the face of the fight (Anyone reading this who wants to help, please get in touch)
13. Bracelets which are designed to give off a siren whenever someone was in an unsafe situation, subject to molestation, harrasment..something similar is apparently being used by Hong Kong's Sex workers.
14. And another tactic used abroad - WOmen police officers in plain clothes move around areas where molestation is high, faces an incident and picks up the offender immediately )What a brilliant, simple idea..I really wish we could do it!)

Be sure that the next meeting will have a lot of exciting stuff being discussed...So do come for the meeting on 7th to contribute and Be a part of the change. Let's do this!
For queries, directions etc call  9632223460 / 9632506195/ 9483950202.