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Article: Activists protest T-shirt with domestic-violence theme.
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- Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME)
- Article date:
- December 24, 2006
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Dec. 24--AUGUSTA -- Groups of women and men working against domestic violence went to the Statehouse Thursday to show their public displeasure at the sale of a boy's T-shirt that some say promotes domestic violence.
Hardy Girls Healthy Women and Boys to Men sponsored a press conference to say they have asked Kmart's parent company, Sears Holdings, to remove the Route 66 Attitude T-shirt from store shelves.
Earlier, a separate group at the Statehouse shredded some of the controversial shirts.
The Maine Women's Lobby also weighed in, calling on Sears Holdings to remove the shirts and become a leader in preventing violence.
The T-shirt ...