2014/2/3 Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence

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Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)   11:10 minutes · Filmed Dec 2013 · Posted Feb 2014 · TEDWomen 2013 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. In 1994, Esta Soler convinced Congress to pass a law to combat the devastating effects of violence against women. Today, her mission is global.