Join Us to Pledge for Peace

We are asking community members, business owners, and community organizations to make a simple promise:
to be a part of ending domestic violence.
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​Normalize discussions around domestic violence

1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced domestic violence (DV) by their intimate partner. Baltimore City has reported over 500+ violent domestic crimes or domestic aggravated assaults within the first quarter of 2021. Now take a second and imagine how many unreported cases there are.  With domestic violence being a prevalent issue across the nation, let alone our city, we wanted to create a night of love and solidarity where we can bring light into dark spaces.

PLEDGE FOR PEACE

Take the Pledge

at Change.org

Let’s normalize the conversation, and not the behavior. Come together and pledge to no longer be a bystander. Together we can rewrite the narrative and change the reputation in Baltimore and lead other major cities around the world. Join us in observance during the month of October by pledging to do your part in ending domestic violence and walking in solidarity as a community.  

We ask you to pledge to:

• Confront attitudes in myself that condone or encourage aggressive/abusive behavior.
• Speak up and no longer be a silent bystander to violence and abuse around me.
• Examine my own attitudes and beliefs about violence, power, control and entitlement.
• Stand with courage, lead with conviction, and speak out to promote non-violence as the norm.
• Never commit, condone, or remain silent about domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and violence in any form within our homes and communities.
• Educate myself and others to challenge attitudes that condone disrespectful behavior or degrading language.
• Take action to end all forms of violence with love, compassion and without judgment.
• Challenge those that use laughter, insensitive language or degrading jokes to minimize the conversation. 
• Talk with my community about healthy and equitable attitudes, relationships and care.
• Acknowledge any harm I may have caused through abusive behavior, seek to make amends in appropriate ways, and work to correct any patterns of abuse.

Take the Pledge

 Now Spread the word!

**PLEASE NOTE that donations made on Change.org do not come to Reach For The Stars.
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