At 2:14 p.m. on 2/14/13 we invite the city of San Diego to RISE. For more information on One Billion Rising events in San Diego, please visit 1BillionRisingSD.com.
San Diego Area Events
RISE
At 2:14 pm on 2/14/13 there will be a city wide coordinated 20 minute
walk out. San Diego will walk out of their homes, jobs, and classrooms.
This unified stance will mark the beginning of the day’s events in
which we will come together as a community who agrees that we will no
longer accept violence as an option.Employers are asked to either give their staff the day off to join us or organize a rising within their work day. We are securing locations throughout San Diego that can serve as meeting places for the rising. Please contact InnerMission productions via 1BillionRisingSD.com for details about how to involve your company or organization with our community wide event.
STRIKE
Time/Location TBD – A press conference will be held (location at or near city hall). We will join with local celebrities, business leaders and politicians to stand up and speak out against violence towards women in our local community for this international event where we will rise together in solidarity.
Following the press conference San Diego will march together in the streets.
DANCE
At 6:30 pm One Billion Rising San Diego will gather at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. This event will feature local performers, musicians, and spoken word artists coming together to end violence – and dance!
About One Billion Rising
- ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME
- ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY
- ONE BILLION WOMEN DANCING IS A REVOLUTION
ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders. V-Day and ONE BILLION RISING and SAY NO to violence against women and girls and we ask you to join us.
What does ONE BILLION look like? On February 14th, 2013, it will look like a REVOLUTION.
About V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery.
V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce 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.
Links:
One Billion Rising San Diego Website: http://1billionrisingsd.com/
InnerMission Productions Website: http://innermissionproductions.org/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1billionrisingsd/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/249397358516524/?ref=ts&fref=ts
Media Photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/100859148750825511151/OneBillionRisingMediaPhotos?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCOqJ6M-vg_OBPQ&feat=directlink
One Billion Rising San Diego Video: http://youtu.be/YJuIpT0xsk8
#reasontorise photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/100859148750825511151/Reasontorise?authuser=0&feat=directlink
