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RISING Blog Extended, Plus For The First Time A RISING Vlog!


05/17/2013

The RISING Blog Series has been extended! We are pleased to present you two new written pieces by Karin Heisecke in the EU, and Allison Wonders Gars in Atlanta, and for the first time a RISING Vlog from Fahima Hashim in Sudan.


KHARTOUM RISING!
Thank you to Salmmah Women's Resource Center, Salmmah's Friends, UNFPA. Blue Nile Lotus, Y-Peer and the British Embassy Khartoum for this amazing Rising event and film.
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MOVING, DANCING, RISING IN EUROPE
by Karin Heisecke, Regional Coordinator EU

When I first got involved with V-Day in early 2001, little did I know that the movement would become one of the few constants in my life over the following decade, as I was moving across Europe, changing cities, changing apartments, changing jobs.
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ATLANTA RISING
by Allison Wonders Gars, Regional Coordinator

On Feb. 14th, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia joined together in solidarity to demand an end to violence against women and girls in our city and around the world.
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