Do it Now

In order to create a cultural shift at UW, a critical mass of people will need to engage in a new behavior or set of behaviors that will make violence less sustainable within any given community. The "new behavior" is a green dot.

Proactive and reactive green dots:

• Wear a Green Dot button one day this week.
• Tell your friends on Facebook when you've done a green dot.
• Put a green dot poster on your door.
• Next time you are walking to class with a friend, have one conversation and tell them that ending violence matters to you.
• If you see a friend who may be too drunk to make informed decisions, check in and consider staying with them until you get them home.
• Integrate information about Green Dot or power-based personal violence into one class discussion.
• Request a presentation from Green dot for your organization.
• Write a letter to the editor of the Daily talking about any aspect of violence that is most powerful to you.
• Talk to a leader in a student organization that you are involved in and recommend that they attend a Green Dot training or presentation.
• Talk to friends about a current issue in news or other media that might support a culture of violence and explain why it upsets you.
• Make Green Dot the topic of a paper or speech you have to do for a class.
• Change your email signature line to something that supports Green dot and link to the website or Facebook.
• Send a mass email to your contact list with a simple message like, "this issue is important to me and I believe in the goal of reducing violence at UW"–and the link to the Green Dot website.
• Make a donation to UW Green Dot, a local rape crisis center, or domestic violence shelter and write "Green Dot Supporter" in the memo line.
• Wear a Green Dot button every day.
• Put the www.uw.edu/greendot link on any website that you have access to.
• Make one announcement to one group or organization you are involved in, telling them about Green Dot.
• Wear a "Consent is Sexy" button.
• Ask for consent when you are in an intimate situation with another person.
• Empower sexual assault victims to shatter the silence and tell their stories.
• Attend events during the annual Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Awareness (SARVA) month. Visit the CORE website for more information.
• If you're going out drinking, designate someone to stay sober and ensure everyone comes and goes together.
• If you see a friend coming on too strong to a person who may be too drunk to make informed decisions, distract, redirect or interrupt.
• If you're going out drinking and plan on hooking up, make decisions in advance with your friends about how much you want to do with who–and then enforce them with each other.
• If you see someone at a party who looks like they are in trouble, ask if they are okay.
• If you see something unfolding at a party that is high-risk and you are too embarrassed or shy to confront it, get someone else to.
• If you see a friend doing something shady, step in and say something to them.
• Intervene if someone is pressuring another student to drink or use drugs.
• Educate yourself about the impact of violence on victims and those who love them.