MEDIA ADVISORY – For Immediate Release                              Contact:           John McKenna, Communications Director February 13, 2015                                                                                                         A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project 323.563.3575; [email protected]   WOMEN RISE FOR JUSTICE ON V-DAY AT LYNWOOD WOMEN’S JAIL   WHO:             V-Day, One Billion Rising and prominent community speakers WHAT:…

On February 11, 2015 The Chelko Foundation sculpture “One Woman Rising” was officially dedicated on Freedom Park by the City of Atlanta. Commemorating the efforts of people from over 194 countries who rose collectively on February 12, 2013 as part of One Billion Rising, a Global Day of Action to demand…

Perhaps the hardest lesson we have to learn in life is – nothing is ever safe. Think about the things you take most for granted. The streets where you live. The job you have. The possibility of a future. All these things – they can be revealed as illusions in…

350.org and activists around the world are demanding institutions do what is necessary to avert the climate crisis by divesting from fossil fuels. Together, we are making fossil fuels history. JOIN THEM! Find an event near you and follow the campaign online at www.gofossilfree.org. RISE to divest from fossil fuels! What will…

TUNE IN to see how communities around the world are RISING 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 all on the One Billion Rising Homepage or via the links below (all times listed…

Winona LaDuke. Photo: DAVID JOLES, Star Tribune file Read the original article by Kristin Tillotson in the StarTribune online HERE According to the U.S. Department of Justice, American Indian women are 2½ times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women. A report issued three years ago by the Minnesota Indian…

Hese photos just in from activists and One Billion Rising Global Coordinator Andrés Naime. The REVOLUTION has begun!    

Organized by the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), Gabriela – Youth, and the University Center for Culture and the Arts (UCCA), the campaign called Move to Mobilize to End Violence Against Women or Move to Mob aimed to raise the awareness of young women and men on the issues of…

In 2011. During my first year at the Market theatre laboratory (school for performance). I auditioned to be in the South African production of a play called “Emotional Creature” by Eve Ensler. I was an angry, bitter child. I was nineteen years old, had no language to describe what had…

Every day we are receiving news of new risings, with new calls for REVOLUTION, within new communities, addressing local and intersecting issues, with dancing, chanting, RISING demanding an end to violence against women! Share your Revolution! Share your photos, video and audio updates with the global audience! Before and during the events,…