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 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, May 25th, 2012 |
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To date, more than 3100 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
Our May Event:
We're into the full swing of the monthly events now and our next is scheduled for Friday, May 25th. We have lots of pledge shirts available to new participants who are still signing up in increasing numbers online each day. Keep up the great work everyone!
Now accepting orders for all sizes:
Our inventory will be arriving in the next few days, so we are again accepting orders for all sizes. Every size is now available to order for new participants needing a pledge shirt to sign and wear for our next STAND on April 27th.
Important Inventory Update:
After posting a message less than three weeks ago stating our inventory problem had been addressed, we're now forced to let you all know once again that we are very low on many shirt sizes for new participants. Our event on Feburary 24th was a big hit and we had a TON of new participants sign and wear a pledge shirt. As a result, we have become low on inventory until further notice. We have more coming, but if you would like to be guaranteed a shirt for our next STAND in March, you should choose a size that is currently available in our inventory (you can see what we have on the page where you choose your sizes). We're very sorry about this issue and are doing everything we can to keep up with all of the new interest!
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.
