Welcome to the Movement!
-a special day where good people across the world join together to say bullying sucks by pledging their support to victims.
The Basics:
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International STAND UP to Bullying Day is a special bi-annual event in which people across the world who have signed a special “pledge shirt” join together in wearing them to:
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The stand is taken globally; with pledge shirts and services being made available to schools and workplaces in 25 different countries. All registration takes place online. |
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Each participant must pledge themselves and their community members by signing their name to the back of a special pledge shirt. Participants are then notified before each STAND to make sure they wear it throughout the day during each event. Shirts can be ordered at any time and are the same for each event. |
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The next International STAND UP to Bullying Day is scheduled to take place Friday, February 24th, 2012 although plans are in action to make STAND UP Day a monthly event! (Stay tuned) |
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To date, more than 2200 schools, workplaces and organizations representing more than a million people have taken the STAND. Although the movement has been primarily North American based, it's quickly spreading across the globe and is expected to continue gaining momentum. (See all registered participants here) |
Latest News
Shirts Have Arrived!
We've been anxiously awaiting a new order of STAND UP Pledge shirts to arrive to replenish our stock, and it finally has. If you've requested a pledge shirt in a size that was back-ordered, it will be shipped out this week. Canadian orders are all packed and will leave Monday morning (the 16th) and American and International orders will be packed Monday the 17th and Tuesday the 18th and will either leave Tuesday or Wednesday. A big thank you for your patience if you were affected by our back-order after we ran out of pledge shirts. We are now fully re-stocked and ready to provide ANYONE wanting to sign and wear a pink pledge shirt one to wear right away.
Important Inventory Update:
Our next day is approaching, and we have been getting a LOT of new participants. This is both good and bad news. It means more people are taking the pledge against bullying (good!) but it also has put us into a situation where we can't promise delivery in time for any new orders of STAND UP Pledge shirts. We are currently completely out of stock on Adult Large and Adult X-Large in the United States, and Adult Medium, Large and XL in Canada. We have more shirts coming to restock everything, but we can't promise they will be here in time to go back out to participants with enough time to sign and wear them for the 18th. We have changed our shopping cart to allow you to place orders for whatever you need, but any orders containing those sizes will become backordered and won't be sent until available. We are very sorry about this issue and are taking measures to make sure it doesn't happen again in the future.
President Obama to take the STAND UP Pledge!?
On Thursday, March 10th, Scott Knight, the City of Chaska, Minnesota's Chief of Police, will attend a conference on bullying prevention at the White House with President, Barack Obama. Chief Knight has confirmed that he is bringing one of our pink STAND UP Pledge Shirts with him for President Obama. We're crossing our fingers that it gets to him and he takes the pledge like so many of you have already done! We'll post a follow up when we hear back from Chief Knight.
Why Pink?
The color of the STAND UP pledge shirts, is based on a campaign started by Travis Price and David Shepherd, two senior students who took a stand against a freshmen student being bullied for wearing a pink shirt. This act of leadership provides a great example for those who are "on the fence" about displaying their own personal stance against bullying.
