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It is not uncommon to hear a choir of Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park. It is unusual for songs like "No" and "Stop."
Church on Saturday, is organizing a free seminar on self-defense carry the Guardian Angels, a volunteer group to patrol the city, the CTA bus trains.Twenty women participated in a class of one and a half in length, which was held in response Recent crime near the Green Line in Oak Park. Five women were attacked and robbed at night 30.3.-28, 04. According to the police in Oak Park.
The women attacked in separate areas, close to Via Lago Boulevard between Austin and Oak Park Avenue. None of the victims was seriously injured, police said.The Guardian Angels began patrolling the Green Line last month after the attacks, providing escorts to train women pilots. The angels are in class on Saturday, when the hearing of an interest in women, they are escorted.
The Angels showed participants how to hit the bridge of the nose of their attackers with a fist blow their ears, fingers digging into their throats and knees inside their Chicago thighs.Guardian Angels chapter leader Mike Fuentes said that it would keep similar seminars in the city if local businesses and organizations will provide CTA riders space.Fuentes recommend women avoid using electronic equipment and traveling alone at night in addition to learning defensive tactics.
Betsy Torres, often with the Green Line commuter, said he rarely rides on the train late at night. 32, Oak Park resident said he got the seminar for self-defense, because sometimes walks his Schnauzer-poodle mix in the dark.
"He is 16 pounds. He has no intention of doing anything to anyone," said Torres.
Blue Line Rider Memari Gibson, 21, said he hoped never to use the techniques learned in class. Gibson, and Forest Park, said when he sometimes go by train late at night, turns off her iPod.
"I am very aware of what is happening around me," said Gibson.