Talk:Take Back the Night (organization)

message: This page used to be a more general page about Take back the night / Reclaim the night actions, but after some changes this page is now focused on the organization also called Take Back The Night. Some information was moved to Reclaim the Night. However, that page has also been changed to focus on British Reclaim the night actions. As a result, some information has been removed which seems a vital piece of history.
E.g. an older version of this page contained  
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The term "Take Back the Night" came from the title of a 1977 memorial read by Anne Pride at an anti-violence rally in Pittsburgh [1].
The first "Reclaim the Night" march was held in Belgium in 1976 by the women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women. [2] They marched together holding candles to protest the ways in which violence permeates the lives of women worldwide. Other marches were held in Rome in 1976 as a reaction to recently released rape statistics, in West Germany in 1977 demanding "the right to move freely in their communities at day and night without harassment and sexual assault," and in 11 towns in England later in 1977 in response to the "Ripper Murders" in Leeds. 
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The information about the Reclaim the night march in Belgium was first moved to the reclaim the night page and then removed. It is now gone, as is the information about marches in Rome and West Germany. The reclaim the night page is now focused solely on the UK, starting with "Reclaim the Night is a movement started in Leeds in 1977".
I know of 20+ marches in Belgium and The Netherlands which were sometimes called Take Back The Night, sometimes Reclaim the Night. None of them under the umbrella of the TBTN organization.
In short, there seems to be no page now for a general history of these kinds of actions worldwide, not necessarily under the umbrella of an organization.
A proposal to solve this would be to add e.g. Take Back The Night (action) or Take Back The Night (demonstration) as an additional page to the Take Back the Night disambiguation page. Of course, more  in general we could raise the question what the difference is between Reclaim the night and Take back the night. 
--ElviSavi (talk) 10:26, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information loss 

message: Just put the piece into paragraphs to look a little better, and italicised the quote. TheOncomingStorm 21:11, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  General issues 

message: Some noob posted this on the front page. put it on the talk page where it belongs. Dear noob, if you want to put your infos on the page, wikify it. Other wise, stay off my internets. 
"A criticism of the "Criticism": Sexual violence against women happens at an alarming rate. For exact statistics, see the US Government's Center for Disease Control Sexual Violence webpage: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/svfacts.htm. While I am certain that at some point in history, someone somewhere has lied about being raped, the prevalence of actual sexual assaults still demands our vigilant attention. The suggestion that an act of sexual violence can be "exaggerated" belies the taboo that is still in place in our society regarding sexual violence. No matter how dramatically or undramatically a story of rape is told, sexual assault is a kind of violence that has deep and long-lasting effects on a person. These effects detract not only from the quality of her life and her sense of mental well-being, but also detract from the larger society, as well. The time a woman spends healing from sexual assault is time not spent doing other things."
Gtorell 01:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism section 

message: I have removed recent new additions to this article, which read like link spam to me. I am happy to be corrected if there is something I'm missing. My rationale is as follows:
The claim that an organisation is "the official online headquarters" is, as far as I can see, taking ownership of an international, widely used, concept. Isn't it a bit like setting up a website as "the official online headquarters of Easter/ Christmas"?
The claim that "events from all over the world are posted at (the website)" is bogus- the only events I could see were North American (mainly US, some Canada). (I may have missed one- it's a long list).
Whois.com tells me that the www.takebackthenight.org domain started in 2004, not 2000, as claimed.
That said, the link resources look useful, and have been left in the links list.    WotherspoonSmith (talk) 11:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  link spam? 

message: The Obituary for Lillian Willoughby http://www.philly.com/dailynews/obituaries/20090120_Lillian_Willoughby__Quaker_activist__dies_at_93.html  Makes a claim that a group she was involved in, the Philadelphia based Movement for A New Society held the first Take Back the Night Rally.. it also mentions a 1980 article which if someone can track down, may be able to provide a more verifyable reference. Centerone (talk) 09:45, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I have removed the new edit, saying that;
"In 2009 the University of Massachusetts Boston censored a survivor of Military Sexual Trauma from speaking out about her experience of rape in the military. They have not felt that veterans or military stories should be shared."
While it may be true, it is not backed up with citations and is not relevant to this topic. It really does not belong in this article.WotherspoonSmith (talk) 11:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  removal of Miliatry Sexual Trauma line 

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