Marsha Lopez Calderon (OBR Guatemala coordinator) and Marva Weatherborn (OBR Honduras coordinator) host an online discussion/ educational event on the theme “How To Raise Your Gardens” on February 7th, ahead of OBR Guatemala’s main Rising Gardens event on February 14....
by: Sangeeta Nambiar (OBR Singapore coordinator) On 14th February, get ready to also plant the seeds of love for nature...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, February 02, 2021 CONTACT: Anna Zuccaro | anna(at)unbendablemedia.com New Ad Campaign Voiced by Poet Organizer Aja Monet Asks “Black Women, Do You Have a Story to Tell?”: Campaign Invites Submissions From Black Women Artists & Writers to VOICES, V-Day’s New Artistic Performance Piece, Led by Monet, to Replace The Vagina Monologues VOICES, A New Flagship Interdisciplinary Art Campaign For Black Women Directed By Aja Monet, Will Replace The Vagina Monologues in Global V-Day Movement Today, V-Day, the international nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating violence against women, girls and the planet - founded by The Vagina Monologues playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) - launched...
The below OBR Newsletter for Jagori details their big Rising Gardens online event for 8 March. ...
Shared by: Kamla Bhasin (OBR South Asia Regional Coordinator) #RisingGardens #OneBillionRising Nature's Bounty!!..🍃🍂🌲 GARDENS ARE RISING 🍃🌷🌲 We started this Roof top vegetable garden in our flat in Delhi 35 days ago. This is already the third harvest of the finest , healthy salads and one vegetable. We are sharing the bounty with neighbours and deepening our community life. We are grateful to Edible Routes for setting this up for us Urbanites who have been cut off from Mother Nature. #1BillionRising #RisingGardens ...
(Shared by Marsha Lopez Calderon - OBR Guatemala coordinator) Learning more about urban gardens for our Un Billón de Pie #2021 activities. Thanks to Fundación Calmecac, with whom we work for Women to have a Breath through our Mother Earth, who gives us Food: gives us Life. #GivingLifeTraveTheWhere. Thank you to, my dear, Adela de Torrebiarte (Sacred be your Memory), long time OBR Guatemala activist, for leaving us this legacy. ...
One Billion Rising is a global campaign against violence of women and girls. Rise to defeat the pandemic, protect Humanity and Mother Earth. The Voice of Domestic Workers (VODW), UK invite you to One Billion Rising: Rising Gardens - an online event on 14th February (Sunday) from 2.30 - 4.00 PM (UK Time). Join V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) Founder of One Billion Rising (OBR),OBR Global Director Monique Wilson and OBR organisers and advocates across the UK for an afternoon of sharing, presentation, artistry and celebration . This event is hosted by Marissa Begonia, Director and Founding member of The Voice of...
By: Aminatou Saher (OBR Cameroon Coordinator) Last January 23rd OBR Cameroon organised an event on *Self care &Rising gardens* in Douala with around 50 participants ( in cameroon we do not have the right to gather more than 50 people due to covid 19). The experts spoke about external violence (abuse, violence caused by a third party) and internal (stress, cancer). in partnership with the Humanity at heart international, the participants learned women's cancers, stress and its harmful effects on our health, the exploitation of women related to the land ...
KERRY WASHINGTON AND EDWIDGE DANTICAT JOIN AJA MONET ON VOICES "THE LISTENING TOUR" ON INSTAGRAM LIVE VOICES begins with listening. In the lead up to the artistic piece, Aja Monet has hosted The Virtual Listening Tour on VOICES' Instagram Live. It's an expansive series, featuring conversations, performances, and offerings that will encourage and inspire Black women from all across the African diaspora to submit their stories, poems, and art to VOICES and demonstrate how those in solidarity can engage with the project. Tune in at instagram.com/visforvoices. TOMORROW, 22 January at 7pm EST, VOICES welcomes Haitian writer, Edwidge Danticat, for a live conversation...