70 dance for One Billion Rising
PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER
As Karen Lindstrom (left) looks on, Laura Carver (second from left) and Debbie Rasnake (wearing a shirt with a heart on it) rehearse their dance steps.
PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER
People began to line up along the upper deck of the second floor of the courthouse in anticipation of the flash mob dance soon to begin.
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Stacy Butterfield (at right, in the foreground) begins the ceremony about to unfold in the lobby of the courthouse, a "flash mob" dance to raise awareness of abuse and rape of approximately 1 billion women around the world.
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Janey Stratton (far right), with the Peace River Center, gets ready to lead the women gathered in their dance to raise awareness of abuse and rape to an estimated 1 billion women worldwide..
PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER
Watch out, Radio City Rockettes! After a few missteps at the beginning, everyone is in synch dancing at a flash mob event held Valentine's Day in the lobby of the county courthouse in Bartow.
PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER
At the conclusion of their dance, the women participating in the "flash mob" dance pointed fingers toward the sky.
On Thursday, Feb. 14 at 9:30 a.m., Clerk of Courts Stacy Butterfield, and Janey Stratton, courthouse advocate with the Peace River Center’s Victim Services, and their respective staffs and volunteers, joined forces with activists around the world in support of V-Day and One Billion Rising, global activist movements to end violence against women and girls.
In Bartow, they, as well as other members of the county government performed a short dance in the lobby of the Polk County Courthouse, stomped their feet and raised a finger to the sky, all in a nationwide effort to stamp out domestic violence.
