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The Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a community organizing group based in Bed-Stuy. The BMC brings together residents of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights to identify issues of importance to them, build power and improve conditions in their community.

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What Men Should Say to Women in the Street
How can male allies can support and build community with women who face street harassment on a daily basis?
The Debrief with David Ushery: Anti- Street Harassment Movement
David Ushery sits down with Marly and Anthonine to shed light on combatting street harassment against women.
Responses to the Shit Men Say in Defense of Street Harassment
Men seemed genuinely shocked and confused that the way they spoke to women in the streets was considered harassment.
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What we all have in common is a desire to improve economic and social conditions in New York City. We are hundreds strong, potentially thousands. And if we mobilize, we will take control of the future of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. Join Us.

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Hollaback!: Finding Effective Solutions to Street Harassment

By Debjani Roy, Hollaback! When it comes to combating street harassment, increasing criminalization

It has come to this: We want you to take over the BMC.

It has come to this: We want you to take over the BMC. How? It begins with a membership form, dues,

Stories of Stop & Frisk: Malcolm S.

Listen to Malcolm S. talk about the various constitutional violations inherent in the practice of St

Featuring… Charla Harlow!

Charla Harlow (of the Harlow Project) was with us at the Chalk Party in Fulton Park on Monday, April

Bed-Stuy community group battles harassment of women with chalk-drawn messages in local park

By Rebecca Ibarra and Lore Croghan They made their chalk talk back. Fed up with wolf whistles and cr

Responses to the Shit Men Say in Defense of Street Harassment

During our Anti-Street Harassment chalk party last week, Anthonine and I spoke to guys, young and ol

Women Fight Back Against Jeers and Catcalls

By Tanay Warerkar On a recent morning while riding the subway to work in Brooklyn, Stephanie Smith (

The Debrief with David Ushery: Anti- Street Harassment Movement

David Ushery sits down with Marly Pierre-Louis and Anthonine Pierre from the Brooklyn Movement Cente

Street Harassment Posters Spark Dialogue

By Kat Noel It was on a trip to the neighborhood laundromat that I first saw Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

What Men Should Say To Women in the Street

“I said she looks nice today. What’s wrong with that? Why can’t she just say, R

Bed-Stuy Organizers Kick Off Anti-Street Harassment Week

By Paul DeBenedetto BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — On a recent morning, on her way to work inBedford-Stuyvesan

Be Our Guest: Ending stop-and-frisk abuses will help rebuild neighborhood trust in the NYPD

While jogging down the street a few years ago, I suddenly found myself surrounded by at least three

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