{"id":1301,"date":"2013-05-02T22:14:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2013-05-02T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T22:20:03","slug":"men-the-other-half-of-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Men &#8211; The Other Half of the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart never fails to break when I gaze into the eyes of a girl I&#8217;m training who has recently been rescued from unspeakable acts at the hands of men. \u00a0While Green Tara Project&#8217;s mission focuses on empowering women and girls, there is a very important point to acknowledge: \u00a0men are critical in ending violence against women.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m encouraged to see dialogue far and wide by men addressing their part in ending violence against women. \u00a0Over the next few weeks, I&#8217;m going to share some of the organizations or efforts that have caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>MyStrength<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0&#8211; Their tag line is &#8220;Men Can Stop Rape.&#8221; MyStrength\u00a0is a project of the California Department of Health Services and the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA), a statewide coalition of rape crisis centers and prevention programs founded in 1980. \u00a0Their mission is to provide leadership, vision and resources for rape crisis centers, individuals and other entities committed to ending sexual violence. \u00a0Check them out at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystrength.org\/\">http:\/\/www.mystrength.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lytrp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1308\" alt=\"Lytrp\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lytrp.jpg\" width=\"481\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lytrp.jpg 481w, http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Lytrp-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart never fails to break when I gaze into the eyes of a girl I&#8217;m training who has recently been rescued from unspeakable acts at the hands of men. \u00a0While Green Tara Project&#8217;s mission focuses on empowering women and girls, there is a very important point to acknowledge: \u00a0men are critical in ending violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}