Arming Sisters: a crowdfunded campaign to teach indigenous women self-defense skills

http://youtu.be/apztpA6H6-U

Arming Sisters is described as a “crowdfunded project on a mission to bring compact self-defense courses” to indigenous women, “arming them to fight back.”

Here in the US and Canada, native females are targeted with sexual violence at a far greater percentage than the rest of the population. One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime.

More about the project at armingsisters.com, and follow its founder Patricia Stein on Twitter: @PygmySioux. There’s a CBC article here about her self-defense training, and her work in Egypt with Tahrir Bodyguard [Twitter, Facebook], a group that organized to keep female protesters in Tahrir Square safer from sexual political attacks.

(HT: @somebadideas)