Diane,

Thanks for writing about this important issue. As the Director of Development for Peace Over Violence (http://www.peaceoverviolence.org), we have reached over a million individuals over the past 11 years of running our Denim Day in L.A. campaign (http://www.denimdayinla.org). With the addition of Denim Day USA (http://www.denimdayusa.org) last year, we hope to reach millions more to get the word out about this most important topic.

Why denim? Because the girls and boys in our youth groups (we run violence prevention groups in middle and high schools in the Los Angeles area) asked 'What did Rihanna do to provoke Chris Brown? She must have done something." Our goal is to prevent violence by teaching youth that no one has a right to put their hands on someone else.

Thank you for joining our work and I invite others reading your article to go to our website(s) to learn about how you can get involved.