It was two years ago when a Toronto policeman's comments about how women should stop dressing like "sluts" to avoid being raped prompted an international feminist moment spearheaded by the Toronto-founded SlutWalk. On February 14, a global campaign called One Billion Rising will further the message by simultaneously engaging 190 countries around the world in a series of loud, energetic events that encourage women to "rise and dance."
More than 13,000 organizations will be taking part in the movement that demands the end of violence against women by participating in organized and spontaneous events such as a series of flash mobs, including right here in Toronto.
The article writes, "Campaigners in Mogadishu, Somalia, are planning its first ever flash mob, New Zealanders will be doing the conga in Wanganui, while Aboriginal women in Australia will be taking over a stadium in Queensland."
Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler founded the movement last year following in the heels of the SlutWalk movement. The date coincides with the 15th anniversary of V-Day, a global movement for women’s rights also started by Ensler to raise awareness about the impact of violence against women.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in my lifetime,” Ensler is quoted as telling the Guardian in the article. “It is something that has gone across class, social group and religion. It’s like a huge feminist tsunami.”
The event will be documented globally under the Twitter hashtag #1billionrising.
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Original source: TNT Magazine