06 Sep Get your ticket today! Speakers, Poets, Artists & Activists 09/14 in NYC; View latest story from Sana in Afghanistan
Dearest activists, friends & supporters,
Join us and our incredible lineup of speakers, poets, artists, activists ready to fuel us with information, strategies, solidarity, and energy to ignite the movement we need right now.
Throughout the day, we will unpack what fascism is in the US and globally and what we can do to combat it. We will explore the impact on all of us from women’s bodies to anti-Blackness and the suppression of LGBTQ+ and the disabled, to the banning of books, erasing history and immigration bans, union busting, increasing violence and expansion of the police state, and the destruction of the Earth.
Panels include: The Fuckery of Fascism, The Body as the Front Line, The Earth’s Manifesta, The Audacity of Abolition & How We Do Freedom. Each panel will feature an artist response.
Tickets ($10) and info, go to onebillionrising.org/howwedofreedom. Get your tickets today!
Featuring Abbas Alawieh, Lulu Alryati, Taína Asili, Hettie Barnhill and André Robles of Create A Space Now, Mahogany L. Browne, Rev. Micah Bucey, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Robin Dembroff, Laura Flanders, Bill Fletcher, Alixa García, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Amalia Hochman, LaLa B Holston-Zannell, Daniel Martinez HoSang, Vijay Iyer, Meena Jagannath, Guerline Jozef, Anjali Kamat, aja monet, Lori Ro, Marbre Stahly-Butts, Jason Stanley, Hameeda Uloomi, V (Formerly Eve Ensler), Karen Washington, Elizabeth Yeampierre, Simone Zimmerman and more*.
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JUST OUT: AFGHAN WOMEN SPEAK:
“THE GIRL SELLING PLASTIC BAGS”
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is worsening. The rights of millions of women in Afghanistan continue to be violated, stripped and threatened under the guise of “combatting vice and promoting virtue” as the Taliban continues to erase Afghan women from all facets of life as outlined in a 114 page document of new orders and strict measures governing everyday life for Afghan citizens. As women and girls face the brunt of these crises, Al Qaeda, ISIS and other terrorist groups have regained a presence in the country.
In “The Girl Selling Plastic Bags” Sana takes us inside the day to day life of young women and their families.
V-Day’s Afghan Women Speak: Stories from Inside Afghanistan blog series amplifies the stories and voices of Afghan women who can never be silenced. Every day, their rights continue to be violated, stripped, and threatened, but they continue to share the reality of their lives on the ground, in their own words.
We cannot underestimate the power of our solidarity at this moment. Read and Share their stories: vday.org/afghanwomenspeak Support Afghan women and their families, DONATE to the Simeen Mobile Health Team today
We RISE with you, our Afghan sisters.