V-Day’s 2004 season was the global movement's biggest awareness and fundraising year to date with over $5 million dollars raised. The theme for the 2004 season "Celebrating Vagina Warriors" was reflected throughout the high profile series of V-Day benefits, events and campaigns. Key 2004 highlights included the first documentary about the movement "Until The Violence Stops;" the V-Day and Amnesty International March on Juarez, Mexico to honor the over 300 missing and murdered women and to support the families and groups working for justice; the two-week intensive V-Day 2004 Visit to India: Celebrating the Indian Woman Warrior featuring events in Mumbai, Himachal, and Delhi; and over 2,300 V-Day 2004 benefit productions of "The Vagina Monologues" in February and March in 1,100 communities and colleges worldwide including Antwerp, Belgium; Esch-Sur-Alvette, Luxembourg; Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Beirut, Lebanon; Lubumbashi, Congo; Brno, Czech Republic; Helsinki, Finland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Denpasar and Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Vilnius, Lithuania; Bilboa, Spain; Vienna, Austria; and colleges including Harvard University, Whittier College, American University in Cairo, University of Delaware, University of Georgia; Notre Dame University; Tulane University; University of Southern Maine, MIT, Sarah Lawrence; University of Wyoming; and Cal State Polytechnic, all benefiting local community anti-violence programs.
The V-Day 2004 Spotlight, “Missing and Murdered Women In Juarez,” placed the issue in front of millions in the U.S. and internationally through the over 2000 V-Day benefits that took place in February – March and through the 7,000 strong V-Day and Amnesty International March on Juarez. While there have been victories in terms of awareness and discussions, the struggle is not over as more bodies have recently been found and the murders remain unsolved. Through the Mexico City production of "The Vagina Monologues," direct support to Casa Amiga and other grassroots groups, and the efforts of thousands of activists, V-Day has been working throughout Mexico and internationally to raise awareness about the missing and murdered women of Juarez.
V-Day’s 2004 theme “Celebrating Vagina Warriors” honored the thousands of Vagina Warriors – volunteers, activists, sponsors, media, and supporters – who work worldwide to end violence against women and girls in their communities. Vagina Warriors are women and men who have often experienced violence personally or witnessed it within their communities and dedicated themselves toward ending such violence through effective, grassroots means. V-Day 2004 productions around the world, from Angola to China to India to Yugoslavia. selected and honored Vagina Warriors in their own communities.
Being a Vagina Warrior “means developing the spiritual muscle to enter and survive the grief that violence brings and, in that dangerous space of stunned unknowing, inviting the deeper wisdom.” - Eve Ensler