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On Dec 6, 1989, a crazed man ran into a college in Montreal, separated the engineering students by gender at gunpoint, and screamed "I hate feminists!" before shooting 14 women to death. Men in the area began wearing white ribbons to show their opposition to violence against women. This turned into The White Ribbon Campaign, run by men and aimed at men, with the intent of eliminating male violence against women.

On December 6, 1991, the first White Ribbon Day was held in Canada, in rememberance and in pledge to do something about violence against women. The White Ribbon Project soon went international.

On December 1, 2005,

_white_ribbons went online to bring the project to LJ. From their info page:

This community is for White Ribbon Campaign members.

Count us as "anyone who wants to open awareness of rape/sexual assault and promote personal responsibility to men". We do want to talk to men, but we also want to listen to women. If you are female, we are glad to have you on board as well.

I know how hard it is to get a community running on LJ, so please help spread the word (and men reading this, please consider joining). This is a worthy cause. They are a brother community to