V-Day Annual Report 2014 - One Billion Rising for Justice | Page 6

ABOUT
VDAY
OVER THE PAST 17 YEARS, V-Day activists across the planet
have worked tirelessly at a grassroots level to demand an end to all
forms of violence against women and girls. In the face of resistance, and
at the intersection of art and activism, they have come together around
life saving safe houses, productions of The Vagina Monologues and
other works curated by V-Day. V-Day organizers have saved lives, raised
consciousness, changed laws to protect women and girls, funded rape
crisis centers and domestic violence shelters (often times these much
needed funds kept them from closing), educated their communities, and
raised over $100 million in urgently needed funds for groups doing the
essential work of ending violence and serving survivors and their families.

OUR WORK IS GROUNDED IN 4 CORE BELIEFS:
ART HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM
THINKING AND INSPIRE PEOPLE TO ACT

WHAT IS V-DAY?

LASTING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
CHANGE IS SPREAD BY ORDINARY
PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY
THINGS
LOCAL WOMEN BEST KNOW WHAT
THEIR COMMUNITIES NEED AND ARE
UNSTOPPABLE LEADERS
ONE MUST LOOK AT THE INTERSECTION
OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER TO
UNDERSTAND VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN

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