NEWS & BLOG

12 Feb

Posted at 17:24h in One Billion Rising

From Germany Nuremberg: A huge number of artwork has been created from various videos, images and statements, among other things, from digital zoom workshops, which will be published on Sunday on our Instagram and Facebook channel and on YouTube. Also, there will be the release of a video performance of a hip hop dance group that has supported us for years. We are really thrilled that so many submissions and support came and are very excited to present it to you on 14.2. So please stop by ;)...

10 Feb

Posted at 14:22h in Newsletter, One Billion Rising

Art by Alixa Garcia One Billion Rising Events Take Place Globally, Amplifying the 2021 Rising Gardens Theme and the Connection between Violence Against Women and the Destruction of the Earth Rising Gardens Activist Events Call for a Shift from Consumption and Greed at the expense of the many, to Cultivation, Creation and Care This year, One Billion Rising activists are calling for RISING GARDENS, a global grassroots call for revival, restoration and transformation, making the connection between violence against women and destruction of the earth. During the pandemic, activists are expanding their reach online as they simultaneously deepen their reach on the ground,...

08 Feb

Posted at 12:50h in One Billion Rising

FEBRUARY 2021: February 9 OBR Africa Online Live discussion on “The Effects of Covid -19 on Women’s Rights Activists in Africa As Front Liners” 4pm (Eswatini time) With: Colani Hlatjwako (OBR Africa Regional Coordinator)/ Jestina Mukoko (Zimbabwe Peace Project, National Director)/ Lindiwe Makhubo (Beaten But Not Broken, Founding Director) FB Live: One Billion Rising Eswatini February 10: OBR Indonesia Zoom webinar on Rural Women Rising for System Change Guests: V (formerly Eve Ensler/ OBR Founder) and Monique Wilson (OBR Global Director) 8pm (Indonesia time) Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88071822280?pwd=VGlHWit3cXhiNWRrWVNvNmdVaHc2Zz09 February 12 - 14 OBR South Asia Rising Gardens Film Festival, Fields of Sorrow, Fields of Hope: 13 films + 9 community videos on women and agriculture screening online from 12th...

08 Feb

Posted at 12:17h in One Billion Rising

(shared by Rada Boric - OBR Croatia coordinator/ OBR Europe regional coordinator) STRONGER THAN THE SHAKE SOLIDARITY WITH BANIJA WOMEN - Clay February 14., 12.00-14.00 pm On Zrinjevac (near the pavilion) February 13., 11.00-13.00 we will collect gift packages for women. This year we decided to devote One Billion Rising Solidarity to women from Banija who survived a devastating earthquake - whose consequences left a mark on their lives - losing homes, jobs, pets, gardens...

08 Feb

Posted at 12:11h in One Billion Rising

Garden of Yarns | One Billion Rising 2021 Johannesburg | The Wilds #gardenofyarns #risinggardens #risegardenresist #1billionrising #craftivism #yarnbomb #thewilds The Garden of Yarns is a craftivism installation in the form of a yarn bomb using handmade fibre graffiti. It stitches personal and collective stories from threads of crochet, knit and embroidery. A flower bed of creative resistance nurtures blossoming blooms, love leaves and petal poems. An avenue of rescued tree trunks is wrapped in yarns of revolutionary love. Stitch by stitch, it reveals its floral beauty - similarly to how a garden springs to life...

08 Feb

Posted at 12:06h in One Billion Rising

Here are few highlights from the ongoing village level awareness among women mushroom growers regarding Farmer Production Organization (FPO) formation and process in Baksa, Assam as a part of FST's project Boosting Livelihood Collectives of Women Mushroom Growers at Baksa. Training partner : @sestaorgindia⠀ @ritupiku ⠀ @rimakshichoudhury #RisingWorld ⠀ #RiseGardenResist ⠀ #women ⠀ #mushroomgrowers⠀ Reposted from @fstnortheastindia ...

08 Feb

Posted at 12:02h in One Billion Rising

Shared by Kamla Bhasin (OBR South Asia Regional coordinator) February 6, 2021 Shruti Rawat and Sabita M Mountaineer cycling and Rising. Today is already the 4th Day of their 5600 Km Trans Himalayan tour in support of safety , dignity and rights of women and girls and for the protection of Mother Earth. One Billion Rising is happy to be associated with this amazing initiative and proud of these two young feminists. ...

08 Feb

Posted at 11:59h in One Billion Rising

On Sunday, February 7th, as a lead up event to their main OBR Philippines event on February 14 (where strict observation of covid safety protocols of mask wearing and social distancing will be implemented) - community women in Marikina City - led by Gabriela - held a One Billion Rising 2021 RISING GARDENS action. The event, participated in by the following groups: Gabriela, Gabriela Women’s Party, Bangon (Rise) Marikin Youth, Salinlahi Youth Childrens Collective, and Bangon (Rise) Marikina - celebrated OBR Rising Gardens 2021 by planting and growing their organic community garden, and by dancing all the OBR Philippine dances (“Bangon”...

05 Feb

Posted at 17:48h in City of Joy, Newsletter, One Billion Rising, V-Day, Voices

CELEBRATING CITY OF JOY ON THE TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ITS OPENING CEREMONY Ten years ago, hundreds of people - local Congolese, dignitaries, activists and supporters from across the globe - gathered in Bukavu to celebrate the opening of the City Of Joy, a revolutionary leadership center for women survivors of gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, co-founded by Christine Schuler Deschryver (City of Joy Director and Director of V-Day Congo), Dr. Denis Mukwege (Nobel Laureate and Founder of the Panzi Hospital), and V (formerly Eve Ensler, Founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising, playwright and activist). It was joyous....