One Billion Rising

22 Sep

Posted at 15:44h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

NYC - SURVIVORS ARE RISING. JOIN US. 🔥 On Friday, September 25, we will gather in Union Square for 60 Million Survivors Rising: NYC - an artistic and fierce expression of survivor power and solidarity. There are more than 60 million survivors in the United States. Imagine our power when we come together. Join survivors, artists, activists, advocates, organizations and allies for an artistic and fierce expression of survivor power with voices, music, drumming, resistance, joy and community. BRING YOUR PEOPLE. BRING A SIGN. WEAR RED & BLACK. COME RISE WITH US. 📍 Union Square South, NYC East 14th Street & Union Square East 🗓...

16 Sep

Posted at 11:06h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

🔥 SURVIVORS & ALLIES ARE COMING TOGETHER IN NEW YORK CITY. JOIN US. On Friday, September 25, we will gather in Union Square for 60 Million Survivors Rising: NYC - an artistic and fierce expression of survivor power and solidarity. At a moment of profound impunity, violence, and abuses of power, we are coming together to disrupt the injustice and demand justice, accountability, healing, and an end to the systems and cultures that enable sexual violence and protect those who perpetrate it. This NYC action kicks off a weekend of Survivors Risings across the country. There are more than 60 million survivors in...

01 Sep

Posted at 20:58h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

Dearest NYC area activists: We’re writing to invite you to join us in New York City on Friday, September 25, for 60 Million Survivors Rising NYC - a public action bringing survivors and those who stand with them into the streets to disrupt the injustice, break the silence, and demand accountability, healing, and change. There are more than 60 million survivors in the United States. This action is for every survivor, across every community, and for everyone who loves them. September 25 will also fall during Climate Week, when activists and movement leaders from around the country and the world will be in...

26 Aug

Posted at 13:50h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

60 Million Survivors Rising is a national movement and day of action in the United States on Saturday, September 26th, 2026 calling for justice, accountability, healing, and transformation for survivors of sexual violence and abuse. The campaign takes its name from the estimated 60 million women* in the United States who have experienced physical or sexual violence, while also recognizing the countless survivors of all genders who have experienced sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, trafficking, intimate partner violence, institutional abuse, and other forms of gender-based violence. On or around September 26, 2026, survivors, advocates, artists, educators, faith leaders, organizations, and community members...

18 Aug

Posted at 17:17h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day

August 15th marked five years since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. We stand with the women – and all vulnerable groups – of Afghanistan against imperialism, militarism, fundamentalism, and fascism. Today, we release a powerful new blog written by an Afghan woman as part of our award-winning Afghan Women Speak series: "Living under Taliban rule feels like dying a little every day." Five years into Taliban rule, the systematic erasure of women and girls from public life has only deepened. More than 100 decrees have been imposed restricting their rights and freedoms. Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls...

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...

07 Jun

Posted at 15:12h in One Billion Rising, Press Releases, V-Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2026 CONTACT: Brett Abrams brett(at)unbendablemedia.com SURVIVORS RISING: NATIONAL LEADERS, ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS, AND SURVIVORS RELEASE COLLECTIVE VIDEO CALLING FOR JUSTICE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND HEALING New Video Launches "Disrupt the Injustice: 60 Million Survivors Rising" Campaign and Builds Toward National Day of Action on September 26 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 7, the Survivors Rising Initiators released "Survivors Rising," a powerful collective video statement featuring survivors, artists, activists, journalists, faith leaders, and public figures standing together in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence and calling for justice, accountability, and healing. The video premiered on the opening day of the annual conference hosted by World...

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...

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...