2008 16 Days Awareness of Gender Violence: Engaging Boys & Men

Zonta Women's Community Radio hosts a special world-wide broadcast as part of our action to raise awareness of gender violence, the 16 Days Campaign, and highlighting the 60th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights.

ZWCR host Roxanne Neilson probes the impact that media has on gender violence and why so few are engaging boys and men in the struggle for change with film maker activist guest Bryon Hurt. Hurt's 2006 film, Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes explores the billion dollar hip hop industry and illustrates how gender violence is exploited by the music industry for profit. His workshops help communities to better understand and redefine the negative stereotypes, gender violence, and sexism perpetuated in the hip hop media, as he helps young artists to reclaim the powerful idiom of rap music as an instrument of progressive social change. http://www.bhurt.com/