Men Stopping Violence is a social change organization dedicated to ending men's violence against women.

Men Stopping Violence works locally, nationally, and internationally to dismantle belief systems, social structures, and institutional practices that oppress women and children and dehumanize men themselves. We look to the violence against women's movement to keep the reality of the problem and the vision of the solution before us. We believe that all forms of oppression are interconnected. Social justice work in the areas of race, class, gender, age, and sexual orientation are all critical to ending violence against women.

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The Annual Awards Dinner
Past, Present Honorees Continue to Make News

We recently discovered that The Right Honorable Baroness Scotland QC, 2005 Men Stopping Violence award recipient, has been appointed Great Britain's Attorney General, the first woman and the first ethnic minority person to hold that post. The Baroness, who traveled from Great Britain that year to accept Men Stopping Violence's Kathleen Carlin Justice Seekers Award, was responsible for Britain's first comprehensive domestic violence legislation.

Another 2005 award recipient, U.S. Senator Joe Biden, is a candidate for vice president of the United States. Biden, principle author of the federal Violence Against Women Act, was Men Stopping Violence's True Ally Award recipient that year.

This year, Men Stopping Violence continues to recognize those who stand with us in our work to end violence against women.

On October 11, Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will receive the Justice Seekers Award; George McKerrow, Jr., CEO of Ted's Montana Grill, will receive the True Ally award.

Natasha was also recently named Georgia Woman of the Year by the Georgia Commission on Woman.

George continues to lend his voice to women-centered causes. He recently declared his support of feminist women in Skirt! magazine. (Harold A. Dawson, Jr., 2007 True Ally Award recipient, was also featured in Skirt! earlier this year.)

These extraordinary people have certainly used their gifts to speak out about safety and quality for women. But that power is within the reach of everyone. Visit Men Stopping Violence's Web site to become educated about the work that's being done, make a donation in support of our efforts, or join us at the Annual Awards Dinner, October 11 at the Atlanta History Center, when we thank George and Natasha for standing with us.

Read more about the Awards Dinner.

Men Stopping Violence Contributes to Book on Work With Men of Color

Men Stopping Violence has contributed a chapter to the recently published second edition of Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing the Wounded Male Spirit, edited by Ricardo Carrillo and Jerry Tello.

The book's editors compiled writings that examine the interplay between ethnic and cultural identification, sexism and violence against women. In the chapter "African American Men Who Batter: A Community-Centered Approach to Prevention and Intervention," Ulester Douglas, Sulaiman Nuriddin and Phyllis Alesia Perry of Men Stopping Violence discuss in detail the intersection of racism and male violence against women.

They write:

"MSV asserts that violence against women is not an individual pathology, but a systemic control tactic that cannot be uncoupled from other oppressive systems of control, such as racial discrimination or heterosexism. The work of MSV is based on the premise that these systems are integrated and, therefore, should be addressed as parts of a whole."

Read the book chapter here.

The Internship

Men Use Seminars, Projects
to Educate Themselves, Others

A regular, highly anticipated event has been taking place at the Men Stopping Violence (MSV) office since the fall of 2007: The presentations of community projects created and implemented by MSV interns.

These evenings are informative, moving and inspiring. The project presentations represent proactive steps taken by young men to initiate and participate in critical discussions about violence against women.

Intern Michael Robinson

makes his presentation.

Another MSV initiative, the Seminar Series, is required for the interns and is also open to other men in the community. These opportunities allow men to begin examining their own roles as participants in a culture that devalues women and as possible agents in changing that culture.

As intern John Abraham said on April 29 during his project presentation on pornography, “Let's find our mindsets.”

Read more.

Men Stopping Violence's "Listening to Women's Voices" benefit on May 17, 2008, was both a concert and a conversation, as Bernice Johnson Reagon, Doria Roberts, Kitty Snyder and Theresa Davis gathered the more than 200 attendees into a circle of song and poetry.

This very special evening also included a pre-concert reception and brief presentations about the work of Men Stopping Violence.

Read more.

Training Institute Draws

Attendees From 8 States

Twenty-eight people dedicated to the work of ending male violence against women attended Men Stopping Violence's Training Institute for Mobilizing Men (TIMM) conference Feb. 27 through March 1, 2008, in Atlanta.

Men Stopping Violence, in consultation with the New York-based organization A Call to Men, has created TIMM, which helps state coalitions working to end intimate partner violence educate and organize men about the issue.

The recent conference was the first of two such trainings for the eight participating state coalitions -- Idaho, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Read more.

                                          Photo: Craig Norberg-Bohm

TIMM conference attendees pose with trainers from MSV and A Call to Men.

Article Describes MSV Model

for Mobilizing Men to End

Violence Against Women

Community accountability is the foundation of the work that Men Stopping Violence does to help increase the safety of women and girls. An article published in the February 2008 issue of the journal Violence Against Women explains the philosophical framework MSV uses to do this work and that framework's relationship to the organization's programs.

The article, "Deconstructing Male Violence Against Women: The Men Stopping Violence Community-Accountability Model" was written by MSV staffers Dick Bathrick, Ulester Douglas and Phyllis Alesia Perry.

Read an abstract of the article.