Text from: onebillionrising.org/
One Billion Rising is the beginning of the new world ignited by a new energy. It is not the end of a struggle but the escalation of it. NOW is the time to enact change. This is NOT an annual holiday, we are not waiting until 14 February 2014. NOW is the time to harness the power of your activism to change the world!
One Billion Rising is the beginning of the new world ignited by a new energy. It is not the end of a struggle but the escalation of it. NOW is the time to enact change. This is NOT an annual holiday, we are not waiting until 14 February 2014. NOW is the time to harness the power of your activism to change the world!
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to know where to direct your energies right now, you can stage a
V-Day
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today!
VICTORIES
Brought together
people across movements and causes – mobilizing communities such as migrants,
women in prison, domestic workers, urban poor, LGBTQI, farm workers, the
disabled, and many more.
Created the
opportunity for councils of indigenous women to participate in global problem
solving.
Created
global solidarity and strength cutting across borders, races, class, religions,
sexual orientation, ages, genders. Reignited solidarity between women's
organizations in various countries. Rekindled the ethos of sisterhood amongst
women on a global scale.
Brought to
the surface the intersection of issues both causing and affecting violence
against women: patriarchy, poverty, corporate greed, environmental plunder,
imperialist policies, religion, militarization, interventions of outside
countries, immigration, labor export policies, nationalization of industries,
political repression.
Engaged
masses on a deeper, more embodied level through dancing, poetry, singing, and
art.
Produced
massive media exposure, discourse, and advocacy on violence against women
issues. It also created or was the catalyst for the development of millions of
women citizen social media journalists telling their own narratives by picking
up cameras.
Created
solidarity and safe and free space, through our creativity and numbers, for
violated women to tell their stories, many for the first time, and heal their
trauma by dancing in public, communal open spaces.
Inspired
millions of men to stand and rise as our allies, deconstructing patriarchy
alongside us.
Galvanized
and empowered legislators to generate legislation in support of ending violence
against women and girls globally. Created an opportunity for globally linked
women’s councils to lobby at all levels of government and UN.
Increased
funding and support for programs and education to end violence and women and
girls.
Made
violence against women impossible to ignore and never to be marginalized again.
Reminded the world that women united will never be defeated.
Generated
the best collection of worldwide dance videos ever
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