Newsletter

07 Jun

Posted at 16:22h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

@media screen and (max-width:1000px) { .responsive-table { display: block !important; width: 100% !important; } } 60 million* survivors are done waiting for justice. For decades, survivors have told the truth. They’ve shared their stories, organized, testified, and demanded accountability. Too often, they’ve been met with silence, disbelief, or systems designed to protect power instead of people. Today, survivors, artists, organizers, and movement leaders in the United States are coming together to launch Disrupt the Injustice: 60 Million Survivors Rising – a...

25 May

Posted at 11:49h in City of Joy, Newsletter, V-Day

Watch V’s video sharing her birthday wish Today, 25 May, we celebrate the birthday of V (formerly Eve Ensler), visionary artist, activist, founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising, and co-founder of City of Joy. V inspires us each and every day to lead with our hearts, trust the power of our imaginations, and dare to believe transformation is possible. She is the thread that ties all of our work together - holding the larger vision, pushing us forward, and fiercely believing that together we can create a world free from violence. V’s Birthday Wish: Support Congolese Women, Support the Work of City...

20 May

Posted at 16:07h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

★ A Community Gathering to Process, Reflect, and Heal ★ Co-hosted by FEMINIST & V-Day 3.5 million files. 3,437 bound volumes. The evidence has always existed — and now, it's impossible to ignore. We're inviting our community to gather in person for an exclusive exhibition preview of The Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room — an immersive experience that brings the full weight of the documented timeline of sexual violence, abuse of power, and decades of complicity into one room. This is not just an art experience. It's a feminist act of witnessing. V-Day founder V (formerly Eve Ensler) will lead a...

29 Apr

Posted at 16:34h in Dear Everything, Newsletter, V-Day

Photos: Astrid Stawiarz & Valerie Terranova / Getty Images for V-Day Thank you to everyone who came out for Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth on Earth Day (April 22) featuring Crystal Monee Hall, YDE, Paravi, Luke Ferrari, Michael Williams, Brittany Campbell, Javier Muñoz, Terence Archie, Pearl Sun, and Benny Elledge - with the astounding Jane Fonda in the role of narrator - and the Earth choir composed of members of the Broadway for Arts Education Choir and the Brooklyn Music School Choir. With deep gratitude to Amy Cassello and the extraordinary team at BAM for your invitation—and for...

25 Mar

Posted at 11:51h in Dear Everything, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

U.S. Activists: RISE Against Ice at NO KINGS this Saturday, March 28 This Saturday, millions of Americans will gather to reject the regime's brutality at home and abroad at over 3000 No Kings rallies across the country. State Violence Is Gender-Based Violence. As One Billion Rising in the United States, we are called to confront the specific systems that enact gender-based violence, from the terror inflicted by ICE, to the ongoing silencing of survivors like those harmed by Epstein. We are witnessing how patriarchy, white supremacy, and state violence intersect with impunity. In 2026, we Rise to break that silence, to expose the...

20 Feb

Posted at 10:55h in City of Joy, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

TOGETHER, WE RISE 2026 RISINGS ARE HAPPENING NOW THROUGH EARTH DAY/22 APRIL As we write, activists in over 70 countries are rising, with 1000+ events already happening or scheduled. Risings will continue unfolding across the globe from now through International Women's Month/Day (March/8 March) and Earth Month/Day (April/22 April). Using art and education, listening and solidarity, dialogue and reflection, ritual and storytelling, we rise to create new realities. We rise so people can return to their bodies, their sexualities, their creativity, and their full humanity. Imagine. Dream. Create. RISE for our Bodies, our Earth, our Future. We RISE to dismantle patriarchy by understanding its roots...

30 Dec

Posted at 12:55h in City of Joy, Newsletter, V-Day

A Blessing, a Center of Rebirth and Love: City of Joy Celebrates 28th Graduation Ceremony Photo: Carlos Schuler On 19 December 2025, the City of Joy celebrated the graduation of its 28th class, bringing the total number of women whose pain has been transformed into power to 2,407. On this day, 85 women reintegrated into their communities — a powerful milestone in our ongoing work to support Congolese women survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. In her address, Christine Schuler Deschryver, co-founder and director of the City of Joy and V-Day Congo, spoke about the war in eastern DRC, underscoring the continued advance of...

22 Dec

Posted at 11:46h in City of Joy, Dear Everything, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day, Voices

Your support over the years has meant the world to us. As 2025 draws to a close, we are filled with gratitude for the survivors, artists, and activists who have made V-Day into a singular, ever-evolving global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, and the Earth. In 2025, V-Day continued to boldly shatter norms and create spaces for grassroots dialogue through art and activism: ONE BILLION RISING activists have been mobilizing worldwide our 2026 campaign - RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR EARTH, OUR FUTURE - to transform the architectures of violence: economic and political, class and race, cultural and religious...

24 Nov

Posted at 19:46h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

One Billion Rising Theme for 2026 is Announced Today (25 Nov) on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the first day of 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM, we announce the 2026 theme as an invitation to survivors, artists and activists everywhere to RISE in 2026. The 2026 theme RISE FOR OUR BODIES, OUR FUTURE, OUR EARTH was inspired by feedback from global coordinators and rising activists worldwide and drafted by the One Billion Rising Council at their annual meeting. One Billion Rising is the largest global campaign to stop violence against women, gender expansive people, and the Earth....