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One Billion Rising: Social Campaign Overview

Ed note: This post is our submission for the SoMe Awards, recognizing the best social media campaigns of 2012-2013.

One Billion Rising was the largest ever day of global action - online and offline - protesting violence against women and girls. Tens of thousands of flashmobs in hundreds of cities in every country on earth were planned by local activists to focus global attention on the issue on the occasion of V-Day’s 15th anniversary.

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March 2013

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LISTEN! Endlich Frei, the Deutsch version of Break the Chain → soundcloud.com

Free at last (German version of “Break the Chain” - One Billion Rising)

Lyrics & Voice: Eva Ulrike of Weltzien

Recording: Philipp Kudelka, L-tone Studio Munich, www.l-ton.de

(Intro)

I lift my face

and set fire to my light

Deep under my skin

I’ve built a castle out of power

Run - Dance - Get up!

Run - Dance - Get up!

Come take my hand and run with me

From the walls of your pain

Nothing can hold more but you

Tear the fear out of your heart

No one owns you, and nothing is right

What you wounded and what makes you powerless The power is in you, get up and dance with me We survived, we are still here!

Dance against your fear

Dance you see light (dance with me!)

Dance until you can breathe

Dance until you’re free (come with me!)

Dance on a Volcano

Just dance, at the World

Run, break the chains

We dance and are free at last - (Come with me, come with me, come with me!) - Mhm - Free at last

Dance - Get up! Yeh-eh-eh-eh …

Dance - Get up! Yeh-eh-eh-eh …

We are dancing through the storm and into the night We shine brighter than the stars Come with us to the world, enlightens For love, which is our power

We belong to us alone

We believe what we do, and no always means no!

We are vulnerable and we are wonderful

We give life but also we are here!

Dance against your fear

Dance are you see light (come with me!)

Dance until you can breathe

Dance until you’re free (dance with me!) Dance on a Volcano Just dance, at the World Run, break the chains We dance and are free at last - (Come with me, come with me, come with me!) - Mhm Free at last (come with me, come with me, come with me!) - Mhm - free at last!

Break Inst

Yeh-eh-eh-eh …

Come on get up and dance! Dance! -

Come and go with me! Run-

Come on get up and dance! Dance! -

Come and go with me! -Stand up! -

Come on get up and dance!

Come and go with me!

Come on get up and dance!

Come and go with me!

Yeh-eh-eh-eh …

Dance! Stand On!

We belong to us alone

We believe what we do, and no always means no!

We are vulnerable and we are wonderful

We give life but also we are here!

Dance against your fear

Dance are you see light (come with me!)

Dance until you can breathe

Dance freely to you (Dance with me) are

Dance on a Volcano

Just dance, at the World

Run, break the chains

We dance and are free at (Come with me, come with me, come with me!) - Mhm Free at last

(2x)

Hmm … (Come with me, come with me, come with me!) - Mhm Free at last

One Billion … Rising!

Mar 6, 2013
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Two 'Contemptible and Violent' US Soldiers Sentenced for Rape in Okinawa → commondreams.org

Two US sailors were sentenced and sent to prison in Okinawa, Japan on Friday for the rape and robbery of a young Japanese woman, refueling long-standing anger against the occupation by the American military in Japan.

Read the full story here.

Mar 5, 20134 notes
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One Billion Rising - a poem by Noel Canin

For Eve Ensler, for all of us

 

We step into our lives

Bright beads of hope

One woman threaded to another.

 

The thread of hope

Catches on a slash of pain

Breaks, knots, flies up again.

 

The thread of loss

Its gnarled old presence

Calling to the strength of us.

 

The thread of rape

scars corrupt kindness

recovery a long slow shape.

 

The thread is PAIN

The thread is STOP

The thread is SET

 

And we will STAND

Thread by thread, hand by hand

In Africa and in Asia

In the West and in the East

And we will dance

And we will sing

And we will shake the earth

Our very lives depend upon

 

We will give our huge thundering heart

Back its ancient pregnant roar

WE WILL STAND ACROSS THE WORLD

WALK OUT 

DANCE  

RISE UP

SOAR

FOR WE ARE ONE BILLION BIRTHING

One billion rising

Holding the thread

Breaking the chain

 

We are Lucille Clifton’s

“lovely line of women

stepping without fear

or guilt or shame.”

 

We are Eve Ensler’s Girl Cells

And the Song of Songs

The cry of Hallelluya

The transforming of all wrongs

 

we are Mothers and we are Daughters,

Sisters and Wives

we are Everywoman and each Woman

distinct beneath the skies

 

We are beginnings and we are ends

We are wisdom and we are ripe

We are One Billion Rising

A current set alight.

 

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February 2013

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Women killing on the field of battle no cause for rejoicing → dailygazette.net

John Amidon, an activist from Veterans For Peace, wrote this thoughtful piece on the recent clearance of women on the battlefield’s frontline.

“Please forgive me, but I don’t want you to have the same opportunity to participate fully in the murderous conduct of our species. I don’t want you to kill women, children, and men who are noncombatants and return home only to wake up to a new nightmare far worse than the nightmare of combat.”

Read the full article here.

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One Billion Rising in Psychology Today: Meaning in Motion  → psychologytoday.com

“Engaging a collective movement, like One Billion Rising, by using dance as the expressive outlet, brings attention to the healing power of moving with one another front and center,” writes Christina Devereaux, Ph.D., BC-DMT. 

Read the full article here!

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