dimanche 27 mai 2012

D.C.?s fight against street harassment

Marty Langelan, with a few deft moves, could kick a towering, 300-plus-pound man off her 5-foot-2 frame. She knows this, because she?s tried it.

But on this night, as she walks up to a group of young men sitting outside the Columbia Heights Metro station, Langelan looks more like a librarian than a martial arts expert. Her hair is swept into a loose updo, and her outfit is smartly layered in shades of blue. The young men, in the baggy mismatched clothes of a different generation, don?t notice her until she hands them a sheet of paper. The heading, in bold-face type, reads: ?International Anti-Street-Harassment Campaign.?

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