Name: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)
Uploaded: 2014-02-03T16:00:41Z
Duration: 10 min 56 s
Description: 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. In this sweeping, optimistic talk, Soler 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.

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. In this sweeping, optimistic talk, Soler 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.

Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)

How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)

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