One Billion Rising on V-Day

On February 14th, 2013, V-Day's 15th Anniversary, Canadians are invited to join one billion women and those who love them to walk out, dance, rise up, and demand an end to violence against women and girls. One Billion Rising is a promise that we will rise up with women and men worldwide to say, "Enough! The violence ends now."

V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. The global event hopes to promote creative events to increase awareness of anti-violence organizations and generate attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls.

Through V-Day campaigns across the world, local volunteers and college students have produced annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, screenings of V-Day's documentary Until The Violence Stops, and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You, Spotlight Teach-Ins and V-Men workshops, to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities.

In 2012, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

Find an event near you and follow OneBillionRising on Twitter and Facebook.

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