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One Billion Rising: Playwright Eve Ensler Organizes Global Day of Dance Against Sexual Abuse
un article par Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
Video: Eve Ensler: One billion rising
People around the world are rising up today and
taking to the streets to dance. Their actions are
part of a global movement in more than 200
countries to end rape and sexual violence against
women called "One Billion Rising," launched by
playwright Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina
Monologues." We speak to Ensler in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, where she is helping
survivors of gender violence. . .
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Hi, everyone. I am here in Bukavu, Democratic
Republic of Congo, on the verge of the rising, One
Billion Rising. I think it will be the biggest
global action in the history of humankind on the
planet for women to end the violence and to bring
about a time when women are cherished, safe, free
and equal.
I just want you to imagine today that when you
dance, when you put your body on the ground, when
you put your feet on the mother, when you move
your hips, when you move your body, when you move
your soul, that we are literally dancing up the
will of the world to end violence against women
and girls.
I could never have dreamed up the diversity of
this movement. We have queen of the Carnival in
Rio de Janeiro and the queen mother of Bhutan. We
have prime ministers of Croatia and Australia. We
have lamas. We have nuns. We have Zumba dancers.
We have Karachi dance—we have an extraordinary
dancer in Pakistan who will be dancing in Karachi,
where it is danger. We have women who have never
danced before and women who will literally be
risking their lives to dance. We have movie stars,
and we have domestic workers. We have migrant
workers. We have union leaders. We have nurses. We
have doctors. We have every type of person on the
planet and every person on the planet.
And I really believe this day will literally
change the mindset, the paradigm and the energy of
the planet. And when we wake up on the 15th, we
will not be finished with our efforts. We will
begin the next stage of our efforts, where
violence against women and girls will never be
marginalized again and where we will have called
up the intention and the energy to make sure we
live in a world where women are safe and free.
One of the greatest things about this movement is
how connected we are across borders, across
nations, across tribes. And we are in this
together. We now know that violence against women
is a global phenomenon and isn’t particular to
culture or to nations or to families, but it’s
something all of us are impacted by. So when you
dance, imagine you are dancing with everybody on
this planet, imagine you are connected to everyone
on this planet, and dance your One Billion Rising
dance so that we are safe and free and women are
equal and we are cherished and come into our
rightful power.
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) liée(s) à cet article:
Protecting women and girls against violence, Is progress being made?
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Commentaire le plus récent:
The 47 CPNN articles devoted to this theme suggest that indeed progress is being made.
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