PHILIPPINES

DAY 1

Monique Wilson welcomes Eve to Manila.

DAY 2

Our First flash mob.

Some call it a slum, some say dump site. A mountain made of garbage. The dumpsite is owned by private contractors They charge 100 pesos for a permit and 150 pesos For a uniform. Even the garbage has been taken from the people. Girls as young as 8 sell their bodies to the men who guard the garbage for the right to scavenge it There was a landslide of garbage The mountain fell On the village and disappeared 600 people. They never found them Their bodies burned inside because it was so hot from the bio gas. A garbage volcano Erupting, turning the people to bone. A woman relocated three times. Gabriela Center – Women telling stories of struggle and relocation. Many leaders of the grassroots women’s groups are here Gabriela national alliance of grassroots women’s groups, Migrante, Gabriela Women’s Party, Kilusang Mayo Uno Workers, Contend Teachers Union, Center for Women’s Research, Association for the Rights of Children in South East Asia (ARCSEA), Pro Gay Philippines, Samakana Urban Poor Women Association, Amihan Peasant Women, Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), International Women’s Alliance (IWA). They are there in their militant t-shirts weaving a vision of one story of women A story of mining, of mining impacting typhoons, of the militarization by the Philippine and US troops to protect the interests of the mining companies and how this leads to prostitution and sexual violence, A story of women leaders being disappeared and tortured A story they are changing and ending and refusing. A story of women joining and changing laws and passing bills and listening and caring and building coalitions and fighting and rising and dancing. All ages, all women in our t-shirts, in our new story, Dancing.

Meeting with the Comfort women after 10 years They are older many are gone Still waiting for the Japanese to apologize They are there in their Lola house At their Christmas party Their faces are cracked earth, Tree bark, maps of struggle Each line a direction, a promise A memory They do it for us now They are past pain past resentment when they smilethe holes where their teeth once were are openings of light.

 

In Congress to witness the long awaited passing of the Reproductive Health Bill passed in both the Congress and Senate.

DAY 3

V-Day Dumaguete

Silliman University has been in the V-Day movement for the last 10 years. Amazing activist students. Special thanks to Bing & Moses.

Goddess Party of artists, thinkers, organizers in Dumaguete. Calling up energy of the island. Hosted by Arlene.

DAY 4

Downtown Manila flashmob. The whole city is practicing and learning the steps.

Women activists dance vs violence against women, GMA News >

 

Eve on Bandila TV show with boy, our V-Man and he invited all V-Men to rise.

DAY 5

In a Philippine theater with hundreds of media, The Vagina Monologues actors, Vagina Warrior activists, and congresswoman celebrate the launch of The Philippine ONE BILLION RISING films, songs, and dance.

One Billion Rising Phillipines (Short Film)
**TRIGGER WARNING**

The Making of the One Billion Rising Philippines Film

 

A Billion Women Dancing, By Rina Jimenez-David, Philippine Daily Inquirer

DAY 6

Headstart
Karen Davila talks feminism on early morning television.

Nunsense
Radical feminist theologian nun Mother Mary John talks vaginas and mysticisms with Eve.

Pipol 
Vagina Warrior Ces follows Eve and ONE BILLION RISING activities for the week.