{"id":3247,"date":"2016-05-02T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/?page_id=3247"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:44:13","slug":"democracy-house-honored-by-middlesex-county-freeholders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/may-2016\/democracy-house-honored-by-middlesex-county-freeholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy House Honored by Middlesex County Freeholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy House, MCC\u2019s service-learning program, and the County\u2019s Center for Empowerment were recently honored by the\u00a0Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders for their work in educating the College community about domestic violence, human\u00a0trafficking and other forms of sexual abuse. They sponsored a film showing of \u201cThe Hunting Ground,\u201d in which rape survivors fight back\u00a0using legal strategy, and a luncheon program where survivors shared their stories. The organizations also sponsored the Clothesline\u00a0Project, in which students wrote messages on t-shirts, which are then hung in the College Center; and April 25 was Denim Day, in\u00a0which students were encouraged to wear denim in an effort to raise awareness of and protest against stereotypes surrounding the\u00a0issue of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3248\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3248\" src=\"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2016\/05\/DemocracyHouse.jpg\" alt=\"From left: MCC student Halimat Oshun; Lori Hayes, Center for Empowerment; Pattiann McMahon, faculty advisor of Democracy House; Carol B. Bellante, Freeholder deputy director; Arianna Illa, Democracy House coordinator; Jennifer Kurdyla of the Center for Empowerment; and MCC student Miranda Brenton.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: MCC student Halimat Oshun; Lori Hayes, Center for Empowerment; Pattiann McMahon, faculty advisor of Democracy\u00a0House; Carol B. Bellante, Freeholder deputy director; Arianna Illa, Democracy House coordinator; Jennifer Kurdyla of the Center for\u00a0Empowerment; and MCC student Miranda Brenton.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy House, MCC\u2019s service-learning program, and the County\u2019s Center for Empowerment were recently honored by the\u00a0Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders for their work in educating the College community about domestic violence, human\u00a0trafficking and other forms of sexual abuse. They sponsored a film showing of \u201cThe Hunting Ground,\u201d in which rape survivors fight back\u00a0using legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3201,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3247\/revisions\/3249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}