One Billion Rising Coordinator for Japan, CHIKAKO HAMA, is based in Tokyo, Japan. She is the Director of Public and Media Relations at the non-profit organization Aoisora, which focuses on nonviolence efforts and human rights. In addition to her work with One Billion Rising and Aoisora, Chikako is a CAP…

One Billion Rising Coordinator for Jamaica, AFIA WALKING TREE, was born and raised in Jamaica. Afia blends her love for earth and drum into sustainable life-art practices. She has a Masters in Education and her work is dedicated to authentic edutainment performances, lectures, coaching, and permaculture garden and landscape designs….

Dearest Activists, As the world faces the Covid-19 pandemic, we are thinking about our activists, artists, survivors, youth, and supporters around the world and how the virus will impact our communities, our work, our future. The pandemic has spotlighted and amplified the inequities in our existing systems. Our movement is…

This virus is affecting all of us, those in prison are especially vulnerable. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, nearly 2.3 million people are held in prisons and jails nationwide (Prison Policy Initiative). Prison populations cannot “self-isolate,”  “social distance” or “flatten the curve,” nor are…

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Monday, February 3, 2020 — 12:00pm ET Contacts: (One Billion Rising) Anna Zuccaro | anna(at)unbendablemedia.com (One Fair Wage) Erin Dennis | erin.dennis(at)berlinrosen.com MONDAY 12PM: WOMEN RESTAURANT WORKERS & ALLIES PROTEST GOV. CUOMO’S EXCLUSION OF RESTAURANTS FROM TIPPED WORKER EXECUTIVE ACTION WITH MASS PUBLIC SELF-DEFENSE TRAINING IN NYC…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, January 17, 2020 CONTACTS: (Taína Asili) Britin Foster | info(at)tainaasili.com (V-Day/One Billion Rising) Anna Zuccaro | anna(at)unbendablemedia.com Meet Taína Asili, the Latina Musician Behind One Billion Rising’s Viral New Music Video “We Are Rising,” Women’s Liberation Anthem Released Ahead of V-Day In Collaboration With One Billion…

Gabriel Sanchez’ article “Here’s What It’s Like For A Woman To Serve Life In Prison” (Buzzfeed, September 12, 2019, by Gabriel H. Sanchez) highlights the work of Sara Bennet’s “PhotovilleNYC”, who represented me in the early 90’s when I was applying for clemency. My first petition was sent when Governor…

“Women’s prison opens nursery for mothers, babies behind bars” (The Blade, September 16, 2019, Kaitlin Durbin) The women’s prison in Marysville, Ohio has just opened up a new $2 million dollar addition to their nursery for women to promote family bonding. It is refreshing to know that some states in…

I am having the most incredible experience of trying to find housing after being incarcerated for 39 years. The graces have been with me and I have a dream job thanks to the connections I acquired while incarcerated, yet the picture is still not complete. I need a place to…

Opioid addiction is just one component of mass incarceration. In the past several years it has bombarded our daily news feed. We hear about the opioid crisis throughout the United States and different approaches to ending it, creating safe measures to eliminate overdoses or finding ways to help people who…