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Watch these women use punk rock to fight street harassment in Mexico

AJ+ has published a video of three women, “Las Hijas De Violencia,” who are fighting Mexico’s street harassment problem with punk rock as their weapon. Check out the video below.

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“When we we are walking down the streets and someone harasses us in anyway, we run after this person. We grab our confetti guns, we shoot once, we turn on the speakers and we sing 'Sexista Punk' [a punk rock song],” Ana Karen says in the video.

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“We must respond. If, with us responding, we can encourage more women to do the same, it’s ideal,” says Ana Beatriz. “We certainly don’t think we are going to change the world, but we sure know that we’ve changed ours.”

Mexico's Harassment Issue

“You talk to me as if you were going to rape me.”These Mexican women are fighting street harassers with confetti guns and punk rock.

Posted by AJ+ on Wednesday, January 27, 2016

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