Amador County – April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and Amador County’s Operation Care encourages community participation to decide to end sexual violence, and help by participating in Denim Day of Wednesday, April 27th.

The goal is to encourage everyone in Amador County to learn about sexual violence, how to help prevent it, and how to help survivors heal. The organization urges employers to allow their staff to break the dress code and the silence by wearing jeans during the month of April, and especially on Denim Day, Wednesday April 21st.

Why Denim? “Wearing jeans during April is a symbol of protest of harmful attitudes about rape in response to an Italian Supreme Court decision to overturn a rape conviction because the victim wore jeans. The decision did not recognize that coercion, threats and force are a part of the act of rape.”

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