CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.-The Clothesline Project is back for another year in Campbell River. Started in 1990 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts it’s a way of spreading awareness about violence against women.
Survivors decorate colour-coded t-shirts with a message against violence or a statement of hope for the future and put them on display as a testimony to the problem. Blue and red t-shirts represent sexual abuse, yellow or beige t-shirts represent abuse by a partner, a white t-shirt represents murder, purple represents assault because of sexual orientation, and a green t-shirt represents children who have been affected by violence.
Rose Harbour will be hanging the t-shirts around the building. On top of that they’ll be displayed in Spirit Square for everyone to see on April 19th from 10:00am to 4:00pm.
Campbell River also displays a white sheet with “These Hands Don’t Hit” written on it, for non-abusive men to trace their hands on in support of the cause.
