What is the One Billion Rising movement ?
One Billion Rising is the largest global campaign to stop violence against women and girls ( cisgender and transgender ), gender expansive people , and the Earth . Launched on Valentine ’ s Day in 2012 , the movement arose from the shocking statistic that one billion women and girls on the planet will be beaten or raped during their lifetime .
Since that time One Billion Rising has become a movement of yearly radical artistic risings around the world to confront all oppressive systems that intersect with gender-based violence , including patriarchy , imperialism , capitalism , colonialism , white supremacy , homophobia , transphobia , war , and violence to our earth .
From February through April , we rise – in countries across the world – to shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face and to celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence . We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable .
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