It’s a global issue that one Texas Tech student organization wants to tackle at the university level: ending violence against women.
On Friday, members of the Texas Tech student organization, the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) invited students and faculty as well as the Lubbock community to join together in support of women and girls who are victims of rape and abuse through the One Billion Rising Campaign.
One Billion Rising is an event held worldwide and is the biggest mass action to end violence against women and girls. According to the campaign, one in three women around the world will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at seven billion, this adds up to more than one billion women and girls. And with increasing reports of rape on college campuses, the student organization says they realized they had to take on the global issue at the university.
“Texas Tech could really be a place where we start a movement against that and we start saying no,” said Catherine Ragsdale, Texas Tech FMLA secretary.
“It’s time for students to come together and rally around a common cause to do what they can and realize whatever happens globaly is local and vice versa,” said Tricia Earl, advisor for the Texas Tech FMLA.
This is the third year that FMLA has hosted the event on the Texas Tech campus.
