FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Celia Swan/Colleen Carroll, media(at)vday.org; 917-865-6603 (c) One Billion Rising 2016: The Revolution Escalates: Focus on Most Marginalised Women & Girls To Bring About Deep Structural Change Activists Globally Call For System Change And Revolution Through Art, Rising for Workers, Refugees, Indigenous Peoples and Migrant Workers, and Rising…

One Billion Rising 2016 Campaign Announced:   ESCALATING THE CALL FOR REVOLUTION IN 2016 It has been a most amazing THREE years of the campaign. Our collective efforts mobilised, engaged, awakened and joined people worldwide to end violence against women. We made violence against women a global human issue not relegated…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: CJ Frogozo, 310-570-2622, cj(at)fitzgibbonmedia.com One Billion Rising, 917-865-6603, media(at)vday.org ONE BILLION RISING: Revolution Activists Called for Radical Shift to End Violence Against Women in Thousands of Global Events in 200 Countries Massive Youth Risings Took Place Worldwide, Campaign Trended in UK In Hong Kong, Activists Danced for…

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…

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…

I guess to a lot of people, it would have seemed impossible for me and my friends to take part in One Billion Rising. All over the world, a billion women have gone through physical or sexual violence, and every February 14th, we rise up against it, across the planet,…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: CJ Frogozo, 310-570-2622, cj(at)fitzgibbonmedia.com V-Day, 917-865-6603, media(at)vday.org Activists Across the Globe Mobilize for One Billion Rising: Revolution Campaign Third Year of Mass Anti-Violence Campaign Kicks Off with ARTISTIC UPRISING Event at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom on February 7 Series with The Huffington Post Features First Person Profiles…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: CJ Frogozo, 310-570-2622, cj(at)fitzgibbonmedia.com V-Day, 917-865-6603, media(at)vday.org Activists Across the Globe Mobilize for One Billion Rising: Revolution Campaign Third Year of Mass Anti-Violence Campaign Kicks Off with ARTISTIC UPRISING Event at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom on February 7 Featuring Artists, Slam Poets, Dancers, Drummers, Musicians with Activists…

This is the story of how a group of women who were shunned and abused and regarded as worthless came together – to transform the laws of their country, and save the lives of many more women like them. By 2005, I had been working in Mexico for more than…

Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian By Oliver Laughland (The Guardian) After theatre group at all-female Mount Holyoke College blasts the play for not doing enough to include transgender people and people of colour, Eve Ensler tells the Guardian: ‘I would like to believe the play is outdated but sadly it isn’t’ The playwright…