It’s almost hard to believe that it’s already been three years since then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden launched the It’s On Us campaign, which aims to stop campus sexual assault. Since its launch, more than 440,000 people took its landmark pledge to not be bystanders when witnessing sexual violence and support survivors.
In honor of its third anniversary, the campaign released a video featuring the campaign’s progress—and explaining how much more work needs to be done. Biden also appears toward the end to explicitly call out Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ plans to roll back Title IX regulations around sexual violence. He says, in part:
Now the U.S. Department of Education and our new leadership is working to roll back the protections under Title IX that we worked so hard to put in place. We cannot let that stand. So don’t give up. Speak out.
He closes out with words that are worthy of printing and framing because they’re so inspirational.
... As long as I have a breath in my body I’m gonna fight to change this culture. I won’t stop and neither should you.
Gosh, I miss the Obama administration.
Watch the full video below.