Rise. Release. Dance!
1 Billion Rising for Justice~
ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME.
THAT IS ONE BILLION WOMEN.
IN 2013, ONE BILLION WOMEN AND MEN SHOOK THE EARTH THROUGH DANCE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
THIS YEAR, ON 14 FEBRUARY 2014 WE ARE CALLING ON WOMEN AND MEN EVERYWHERE TO HARNESS THEIR POWER AND IMAGINATION TO RISE FOR JUSTICE.
IMAGINE, ONE BILLION WOMEN RELEASING THEIR STORIES, DANCING AND SPEAKING OUT AT THE PLACES WHERE THEY NEED JUSTICE, WHERE THEY NEED AN END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.
JOIN US!
RISE. RELEASE. DANCE!
This so beautiful~
1 Billion are rising.
Our mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, everyone.
http://www.onebillionrising.org/
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Just kicking for now before I go out the door but looking forward to reading and watching vids when I return.
So Important! 
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Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
~ Maya Angelou
In the first video, I almost feel the very ground resonating in time to joy and love in all the dancing, singing and being.
We may be on the precipice of a great change. As much as I love Angelou's eloquent reading, I thought this with the song Vessels, was symbolic, too. I'm looking forward to that day. Here's to Valentine's Day, 2014-02-14.
Thanks, Sheshe...
That video, freshwest.
It should stand as an OP on its own. Magnificent, inspiring, so amazingly beautiful. I have watched it 5 times now. I cry, yet it is not from being sad, it is the beauty. I cry for hope and dreams. We are inspiring, yes we are.
We Rise. We innovate, we stimulate, we soar!
We Rise~
Women Rising~
The Great Georgia
"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018422390
Thank you for the re-post of the video, alas the news did not get kicked. Not much interest. Sad.
However, you were so correct when you said that you could almost feel the ground resonate in the first video. I came back to watch it again.
It resonates with our love, our inner peace and our very soul. Beauty in motion, freshwest. The beat is our heartbeat. It is who we are. We are strong~
Thanks sweets...
Have you been getting snow this week, as you expected? Hope you are staying warm~
are! 
Break the Chain! We're Dancin'~ What a beautiful gorgeous idea to raise Awareness that had to be raised, she. Such an epidemic. 
Enough.
One Billion Rising! Honolulu in the house~
Mahalo, she~
http://onebillionrisinghonolulu.com/
