Take Back The Night Benefit Dinner March 20, 2010

Local organizers for the International Take Back the Night Program have announced a benefit to raise money for their program. The 2010 Take Back the Night Benefit will be on March 20, 2010 from 6 pm - 11 pm at Connor O'Neill's in downtown Ann Arbor. The organizers are asking them to join them for a silent auction, food, dancing, and fun with a special poetry reading by Ber-Henda Williams. A local band will also perform and there will be dancing and 90's music. Additional information and tickets can be obtained at the Ann Arbor Take Back the Night website at n be purchased in advance.

Take Back the Night is an international rally and march that is organized in local communities with the purpose of unifying women, men, and children in an awareness of violence against women, children and families. The event is a collaboration of community and campus and other interested persons who are ready to take a stand against violence and make the night safe for everyone. The march intends to:

Increase community awareness of issues of violence against women, and its interrelationship with all other forms of discrimination;
Educate about the extent and the nature of the violence that is systematically used against women to keep us from becoming powerful, autonomous individuals;
Honor the memory of the victims of violence against women and celebrating its survivors;
Serve as a collective voice for women to demand a world in which women's bodies, minds and souls are not targets of violence;
Empower individual men and women to take direct action against violence, whether it is through speaking out, lobbying, voting or some other form of activism;
Provide the leadership to challenge organizations and institutions to implement policies and initiatives which are effective in addressing issues of violence against women.

The Lamp Post Inn, an Ann Arbor hotel is pleased to support the efforts of this local organization.