07 Mar On International Women’s Day, Activists Around the World RISE for Freedom
One Billion Rising events are taking place and will continue through 22 April, Earth Day with the 2024 theme: RISE for FREEDOM, Be the New World. Rising Freedom Festivals are 1-2 days in length, including theatre, music, poetry, songs, painting, murals, workshops, massage, storytelling, oral histories, testimonies, drumming, planting, talks, connecting with nature, discussions, bodywork, rituals, ceremonies, circles, and more.
If we saw ourselves as artists, what would we imagine and design? What world would we see? What new language and expressions for freedom would we find? How do we create and envision deeper, bigger and bolder?
We are in a state of war. A war against our bodies. Our minds. The Earth. Our FREEDOM now depends on our coming together in unity to IMAGINE it, CREATE it and RISE for it.
On #InternationalWomensDay, how will you Rise?
Photos: Beautiful Hearts Against Sexual Violence (Mongolia), Lucinda Evans (South Africa), Colani Hlatjwako (Namibia), OBR Site (Boston, USA), OBR Site (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Matcha Phorn-in (Thailand), OBR Croatia (Croatia), Gabriela a National Alliance of Women (Philippines), Gabriela Oakland/ Palestinian Feminist Collective (San Francisco, USA), OBR Italia (Italy)
Ready to RISE? Visit onebillionrising.org
READ about the 2024 theme
FIND/PLAN a Rising event
MEET the OBR Global Coordinators
FOLLOW OBR on Instagram
Check out our blog for inspiration from global coordinators around the world
AFGHAN WOMEN SPEAK – READ THE LATEST IN OUR BLOG SERIES AMPLIFYING THE VOICES OF WOMEN INSIDE AFGHANISTAN
More stories are coming in from Afghanistan. We cannot underestimate the power of our solidarity at this moment. Please help raise awareness, share them widely with your friends and social networks. We RISE with you, our Afghan sisters. SUPPORT Afghan women and their families, DONATE to the Simeen Mobile Health Team today.
READ the new blog, “Compassion is Diminishing in the World”
READ the blog series: Afghan Women Speak
SHARE CHRISTINE’S TED TALK WITH YOUR FRIENDS & NETWORKS
The response to Christine Schuler Deschryver (co-founder and director of City of Joy)’s TED talk has been powerful. In the talk entitled “The 5 Tenets of Turning Pain into Power,” Christine details how rape is often used as a weapon in the war over the Democratic Republic of Congo’s vast mineral resources, and how City of Joy helps survivors empower themelves, breaking the destructive cycle that sexual violence often has on individuals and communities. We’ve just released a reel with a clip from the talk – please spread the word and share widely – we want everyone to see her talk and learn about the work of City of Joy.
VIEW & SHARE the reel
To download the reel and social copy, visit the digital toolkit