Organizers rally in Hyannis following a men’s march against domestic violence on May 31.
HYANNIS – About 100 people turned out this weekend to call for the end of domestic violence.
The Hyannis men’s march called on men do to their part to end the culture of violence against women. The march started at the Hyannis Youth and Community Center and proceeded down Main Street.
Organizers stressed that stopping domestic violence isn’t an easy task.
“Ending violence, breaking the chains of legacies of male violence in families and communities, interrupting and changing the institutions, changing the patterns of oppression that we have created, it’s hard, it’s difficult,” said Boysen Hodgson, Communications and Marketing Director for the Man-Kind Project, one of the organizers of the march.
The march raised funds for Independence House in Hyannis, a non-profit that supports domestic violence victims.
Organizers struck a positive and hopeful sentiment: ending violence against women is possible if men do their part.
“The next generation of men, millennial men, are being born into a culture that already has more understanding than we had when we were kids,” Hodgson said. “There’s an incredible amount of hope and possibility.”
