WE ARE RISING FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Published: 28 February 2020

Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo Credit: @obrjakarta
Kibera-Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Credit: One Billion Rising Kenya
Taos, NM, USA. Photo Credit: Morgan Timms / The Taos News

Our new liberation anthem, “We Are Rising,” is a global hit! The video has been viewed over half a million times and the song has been featured at the center of risings around the world!

We keep rising like the fire of the sun…
One for a billion a billion for one

– Taína Asili, “We Are Rising”

The song is a call to action and a call to RISE against the tides of violence against all women, climate crisis, racism, and corporate greed. The anthem has resonated with activists, with footage already coming in from Myanmar, Italy, US Virgin Islands, Thailand, Philippines, Swaziland, Mexico, Canada, and the United States showing activists, survivors, and community members dancing to it.


WATCH the We Are Rising dance montage!

CALL TO RISE, WE ARE RISING FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY:
Together, let’s RISE for International Women’s Day, 8 March!

  • Create your own version of a ‘We Are Rising’ performance/event/flash mob.
  • Get creative: there are so many ways:
    • Develop your own dance
    • Dance freestyle
    • Rise in solidarity with your global sisters by dancing any of the dances shown in the video montage
  • Share it on social media using the hashtags #1BillionRising #WeAreRising #IWD2020

LISTEN to “We Are Rising”
WATCH/SHARE the video

Join us
RISE 2020: Raise the Vibration, plan a RISING, a V-DAY benefit production, or a CITY OF JOY screening or house party in your college or community.
V-Day: Say It, Stage it – PRODUCE a V-Day benefit as an Artistic Uprising in your college/university, in your community
One Billion Rising: Raise the Vibration – RISE in your community, for your community
City of Joy: Turn Pain to Power – SCREEN the documentary, SUPPORT the Women in DR Congo