Don’t Hurt Anyone®

Description

Don’t Hurt Anyone (DHA) was created to promote nonviolence, equity and a more inclusive, tolerant and civil society. The impetus for the project was evidence that the intrinsic and toxic currents of racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, anti-Semitism, discrimination, harassment, inequity and injustice were growing even stronger, wider and deeper in today’s America.

“Don’t Hurt Anyone” is essentially the “golden rule” reworded. The mission and logo were developed to be:

Bold, compassionate and message-forward

Inclusive of gender, race, age, religion, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or civil union status, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability and other inherent human qualities and experiences

Relevant at the global, national, local and perhaps most importantly personal level

Violence comes in many forms and impacts individuals and communities in many different and damaging ways. Intimate partner violence, child abuse and exploitation, hate crimes, bullying, sexual violence and harassment and organized violence are all examples.

Discrimination, inequity and injustice are structural, systemic, and institutional forms of pervasive, inestimable and malignant harm. Policies, initiatives and regulations designed to limit access to education, health, housing, voting and other economic and social rights deny millions of Americans their fundamental human rights and the opportunity to thrive. For example, criminal and juvenile justice policies and practices have resulted in the vastly disproportionate over-criminalization and incarceration of individuals of color. Strategies to erode or eliminate hard-won civil rights policies and protections have already succeeded and a variety of voter suppression/disenfranchisement efforts are underway at the federal level and in far too many states and municipalities.

DHA seeks to provide a new way for millions of individuals in the United States and around the globe — each informed by their own perspective and life experiences to unite and create a new engine for awareness, unity and change. Please consider joining our movement.

The zeitgeist is right. The potential is enormous.

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