The Clothesline Project
Join FCR and The NAACP Brockton Area Branch on
June 26th from 1:00-3:00 PM at City Hall Plaza in Brockton MA
to raise awareness for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault
The Clothesline Project is a visual display of violence statistics that often go ignored.
Each shirt is made by a survivor of violence or by someone who has lost a loved one to violence.
The color of each shirt represents a different type of violence.
The purpose of the project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence and abuse, to honor a survivor’s strength to continue,
and to provide a space for them to courageously break the silence that often surrounds their experience.
The first Clothesline Project originated in Hyannis, Massachusetts, in 1990 when a member of the Cape Cod's Women's Defense Agenda learned that during the same time 58,000 soldiers were killed in the Vietnam War, 51,000 U.S. women were killed by the men who claimed to love them.
