How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)
- Title:
- How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)
- Speaker:
- Esta Soler
- Description:
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When Esta Soler lobbied for a bill outlawing domestic violence in 1984, one politician called it the "Take the Fun Out of Marriage Act." "If only I had Twitter then," she mused. This sweeping, optimistic talk charts 30 years of tactics and technologies -- from the Polaroid camera to social media -- that led to a 64% drop in domestic violence in the U.S.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 11:10