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My sisters and brothers across this aching gorgeous earth,
I write you with the fullest heart– at once exploding and melting. The images of millions of faces and bodies dancing, reaching, bending, ignited with an energy that is sacred and militant, profound and playful, radical and resistant. In you, I see the desire and willingness of a billion souls. I see the radiance of bodies breaking out of the chains of patriarchy, out of the torturous violence of racism and caste and class, out of rapes and beatings, out of slums, out of exclusion, out of intimidation and silencing, out of bondage and devastating loneliness and isolation, out of economic despair.
I see the exhausted bodies of refugees suddenly enlivened as they spin with welcoming sisters in the streets of Europe. I see the Roma women proud and visible leading the dance in Croatia. I see the girls in the learning center of Kabul moving their bodies to the sounds of reclamation, taking their city and beings back from imperialist invaders and senseless wars. I see the women in Tacloban, survivors of storms made from greed and plundering, rising for climate justice. I see the worried bodies of the indigenous Lumads rising in tribal militancy in the square in Davao City. I see how their dance is the dance of our beginnings and as they dance, refusing to be moved from their ancestral lands, we are all lead back to ourselves and to protecting the earth.
I see the dance that will never let us forget that “Black Lives Matter” and how when we Say Her Name with our voices and memories it becomes impossible for the police to murder and disappear Black women. I see the bodies of women in wheelchairs who will not be stopped by prejudice or indifference. I see the insistent brave gender fluid dance of gay, bi, queer, and transgendered women and men and persons. I see hundreds of cities in Italy, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Germany, and the Philippines rising, one after the other, burning fires across countries and culture. I see the unstoppable dance of youth refusing to inherit a world of hatred and cruelty, their dance that knows education is a right and their strong bodies settling for nothing less. I see radical Artistic Risings in Delhi, Dhaka, Oakland, Atlanta, Santa Fe, San Francisco, London, and Guatemala City…
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Press Release – One Billion Rising 2016: The Revolution Escalates
For the fourth year, activists in 200 countries rose up to demand an end to violence against women and girls as part of the global One Billion Rising movement. Using dance as a form of protest, OBR activists called for revolution & system change to end violence against women & girls in the streets and across social media. Rising events are being held from 14 February to 8 March, International Women’s Day. Upcoming RISING events are scheduled in Hong Kong, DR Congo, India, London, & Mexico, and many more. The campaign trended on Twitter in Philippines, Germany, Italy, Austria, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, & Munchen.
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VISIT OneBillionRising.org for additional images and coverage coming in from around the globe.
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One Billion Rising 2016 In Action
Every February through 8 March, thousands of Risings take place in communities around the world – to show the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors of various forms of violence face. Through the collective efforts of activists in 200 countries, One Billion Rising has mobilised, engaged, awakened and joined people worldwide to end violence against women. In 2016, the theme of Revolution continues with a call to focus on marginalised women and to bring national and international focus to their issues; to bring in new artistic energy; to amplify Revolution as a call for system change to end violence against women and girls; to call on people to rise for others, and not just for ourselves.
Stay tuned for live updates on our website and social media channels, and RISE in your community and online!
Rising for Revolution Across the Philippines!
The 2016 OBR tour continues as Eve and Monique RISE with local organizers and grassroots activists in cities and regions across the country.
In Tondo, they rose for Life & Livelihood, demanding and end to violence and poverty and against the new coal factory that is dumping in the area, further endangering residents. In Tacloban City, they rose for justice for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan and for Climate Justice. In Davao City, they are rose for Lumad rights, rose against militarization, against mining & environmental plunder, and against political oppression and killing. The Mindanao region of the Philippines is rich in natural mineral resources, making it the target of large scale mining international companies who are plundering and pillaging these rich bountiful land of gold, copper, nickel and chromite – displacing thousands of Lumads from their ancestral domains, and harassing, oppressing and killing them under the Philippine Governments Oplan Bayanihan operations. The OBR Davao event had the participation of multi-sectoral grassroots communities – workers, urban poor, peasants, teachers, students, women’s groups, community groups, families of migrants, LGBT groups, groups for the rights of sex workers, and Lumad communities who are currently displaced because of militarization and living in evacuation camps in the city.
READ local reporting on their tour
‘Vagina Monologues’ playwright to join PH ‘One Billion Rising’ in Bulatlat >
Neglect of comfort women ‘criminal’ – Eve Ensler in Rappler >
WATCH Eve & Monique’s recent CNN interview >
Watch Risings Events From Dhaka & Davao
Even if you missed the Livestreams of global One Billion Rising events as they happend LIVE, you can still watch footage from the Risings online.
WATCH Dhaka Artistic Rising >
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WATCH Dhaka Youth Rising >
WATCH Davao Rising >
Share the Call for Revolution Online
The One Billion Rising energy around the world is amazing, risings are already happening globally, and we are once again looking to make our call heard loud and clear on 14 February using our Thunderclap campaign! Sign up and Thunderclap will share this year’s Rising message simultaneously around the world on 14 Feb, amplifying our call for Revolution.
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Share Why You Are RISING
As the One Billion Rising campaign unfolds around the world, we are seeing communities call for Revolution in countless ways; Rising for climate justice in the Philippines, Rising for refugees in Calais, Rising to reconnect to the body in Taos and many more. As we build to 14 Feb, we invite you to share why you are Rising using the hashtags #Rise4Revolution and #1BillionRising. These messages of revolution will be curated on the One Billion Rising homepage including images, videos, memes, and stories. It’s a great way to check-in around the clock and see the world RISING.
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Watch the RISING Via Livestream
Tune-in to see how activists around the world are Rising For Revolution in their communities via Livestream. It’s the best way to connect in with activists and actions as they happen LIVE. Here’s the schedule*, watch them on the One Billion Rising Homepage (all times listed in the event’s local time zone/Greenwich Mean Time /Eastern Standard Time):
Davao Rising
Friday, 12 Feb at 2:00pm local / 6:00am GMT/ 1:00am EST
Manila Rising
Sunday, 14 Feb at 8:00am local / 12:00am GMT/ 7:00pm EST (13 Feb)
Santa Fe Rising
Sunday, 14 Feb at 1:30pm local / 8:30pm GMT / 3:30 pm EST
St. Scholastica’s College Rising, Manila
Monday, 15 Feb at 7:30am local / 11:30pm GMT (14 Feb) / 6:30pm EST (14 Feb)
Guatemala City Rising
Monday, 15 Feb at 10:00am local/4:00pm GMT/ 11:00am EST
*Subject to change
WATCH the livestreams >
Eve & Monique Interviewed Live on CNN
From Manila, Eve & Monique visited CNN studios to talk about One Billion Rising globally as well as the escalating campaign in the Philippines Philippines.
WATCH the Interview >
TUNE IN – The “Rising Revolution” Video Series Continues
One Billion Rising: Rise For Revolution 2016 includes creative and artistic expressions, multi-sectoral involvement, and more importantly – provides a unique space to engage people from all walks of life. It allows the use of imagination, art and political actions – and allows everyone the freedom to localise their OBR campaigns.
WATCH the Latest in the Series >
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Join the Thunderclap for #Rise4Revolution
For the past three years, activists around the world have shared the call to end violence against women and girls across social media. Our hashtags have trended across Twitter and Facebook, mirroring the expansiveness of movement.
This 14 Feb, the call for REVOLUTION will once again be heard across the world using Thunderclap, an online flashmob that allows a single message to be mass-shared at the same time. Sign-up to show your support!
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Rise Dance Disrupt! New Piece by Eve Ensler
Leading up to One Billion Rising: Rise For Revolution 2016, Eve has just released her latest piece entitled, Rise Dance Disrupt. Activists around the world will read it at One Billion Rising events and V-Day performances.
READ the full piece >
Bodies of Revolution Video Series Continues
Activists clips from Bodies of Revolution: Women Rise Against the Violence of Police, States & Empire presented live at Columbia Law school on 5 Dec, 2015 by One Billion Rising, the African American Policy Forum, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies are now available.
WATCH the activist clips:
Sara Milena Ferrer discussing structural discrimination and anti-blackness and sexual violence in Colombia >
Frances Garrett, mother of Michelle Cusseaux who was killed at close range by a Phoenix police officer who had been called to escort her to a mental health facility >
Lu Pin discussing structural inequality for women in China >
Thenmozhi Soundararajan discussing state violence against Dalit women in the context of the casts system in India >
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Leading up to One Billion Rising: Rise For Revolution 2016, Eve has just released her latest piece. Activists around the world will read it at One Billion Rising events and V-Day benefit performances.
RISE DANCE DISRUPT!
I think we must live now on the edge of incomprehensible madness, refusing to give up and refusing to pretend. Dancing on the precipice of annihilation while passionately encouraging and welcoming the new paradigm. This is most difficult in a world, in a system that has thoroughly indoctrinated us in a refusal to think, in the sound bite, in yes and nos, likes and unlikes, with us or against us pathology, in idiotic, consumable brandable, reductionist absolutes. To be an enthusiastic absurdist requires embracing ambiguity, insecurity, and it means looking at the predicament we are in head on. It means leaping and assuming you will fall, dancing in the chaotic impossible passionate possible.
So we must learn the art and practice of disruption. We must release the tentacles of our false securities and interrupt the world as we know it. We must assume that anywhere we live or anything we are doing can change or disintegrate on a dime and we must practice changing and letting it go. Living as if there is no future but the one we are creating. Nothing guaranteed but our willingness to live as pioneers of a new consciousness and way. And we must become disrupters. That is the power of creative resistance. Interrupting business as usual, taking stands that forfeit our acceptance or economic elevation, risking disapproval and controversy, participating in actions that loosen our grip on the suicidal givens and push the tyrants to fall. Disrupters, fighting and dancing with all our might for life over comfort.
– Eve Ensler
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With less than four weeks until 14 February, activists are sharing their Rise for Revolution videos, photos, memes, posters & event plans on a daily basis. Tibetans in exile and Indian activists are rising event for climate justice, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding; in Santa Fe activists are marching for victims of sex trafficking, in Germany & the UK they are rising for and with refugees, in Croatia activists are mounting a strong rising against the governments attempts to restrict reproductive rights and much more! Be sure to visit the One Billion Rising homepage for the latest news and updates.
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NEW Rise for Revolution Videos
Columbus Rising activists share #WhyIRise statements for the 2016 campaign >
Activists in Poland are ready to LISTEN! ACT! RISE! >
Lumads, indigenous tribes in the Philippines, are RISING against militarization and the forced evacuation from their ancestral lands >
Order Your One Billion Rising 2016 Gear – Shipping Deadlines Approaching
One Billion Rising: Rise For Revolution clothing is available from Spreadshirt. Shipping deadlines are fast approaching – to ensure your merchandise arrives on time for your RISING, please note the shipping deadlines provided by Spreadshirt.
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Dear V-Friends & Risers,
2015 was a revolutionary, evolutionary year for V-Day and One Billion Rising. Your solidarity and support made it possible!
Activists worldwide called for system change towards ending violence against women and girls. They staged plays, risings and events, rose in the streets, changing laws, consciousness and culture with an impact that is breathtaking and powerful.
It is our honor to share the 2015 Annual Report. These pages are a snapshot of those global activities and an invitation to join us in 2016.
CLICK HERE for the 2015 Annual Report >
This year, our V-Day campaigns expanded the dialogue around sexual violence as activists raised funds and awareness through performances of The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer from a prison in upstate New York to a theater in Tehran. The plays catalyzed important conversations and inspired new works of art.
City of Joy and V-World Farm continue to blossom and grow in the Democratic Republic of Congo, transforming pain to power amidst ongoing conflict in the region. The farm is going even deeper, transforming pain into planting, healing the body and the earth.
In its third year, One Billion Rising called for Revolution, to escalate tectonic global change. It was stunning to see how the call resonated around the world. Never have we seen such diversity — children, men, older people, LGTBQI, religious leaders, people of all abilities, farmers, workers, NGOs, presidents and prime ministers. Never have we seen such creativity; the movement continues to been led by art, theater, music, dancing, poetry, drumming because that is where revolution is activated.
The report is available in an interactive online format.
CLICK HERE for the 2015 Annual Report – ONE BILLION RISING REVOLUTION >
We hope you will #Rise4Revolution with us in 2016. We ask that you consider making a donation to support our work. Every donation you make ensures art and activism is at the core of our movement. Donate online at vday.org/donate.
With deepest gratitude and V-love,
Eve, Susan, Christine, Monique, Shael, Colleen, Carl & Kristina
Support the global movement to end violence against women and girls.
DONATE to V-Day* >
* 31 December is the last day to make charitable donations in order to claim them on your 2015 tax return. V-Day is a top rated charity on Guidestar and Charity Navigator.
TAKE ACTION
– VIEW the 2015 Annual Report – ONE BILLION RISING REVOLUTION >
– LEARN about the One Billion Rising: Rise for Revolution 2016 campaign >
– FIND an upcoming Rising in your community >
– REGISTER your event on the One Billion Rising Revolution map >
– WATCH the Rising Revolution video series >
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V-Day is shocked and outraged to hear of the alleged sexual misconduct of the President of Fitzgibbon Media. We stand with the women who have come forward and will continue to fight with them for a safe and equal workplace for all women where these kind of abuses no longer happen and perpetrators are brought to justice.