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 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.”

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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.

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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.

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                                          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.