G REVOLUTION 2015
INDIA Activists rose in 24 states for tribal community rights, interfaith love and inter-caste
marriage, and reclaiming forbidden public spaces. Dalit women from many states united.
Muslim women unveiled their demands. There were liberating events for sex workers, trafficking and violence survivors, people of all abilities, girls and boys, schools and colleges,
and multiple-gender identities. They redefined folk poems to make them gender-sensitive,
and people danced and sang with sheer joy.
CONGO Activists in Bukavu, and for the first time also in Kinshasa, rose for gender
equality, human rights, gender justice, and transitional justice.
GENEVA The motorcycle association Toutes en Moto—Genève, women on bikes, took
to the streets of Geneva to RIDE & RISE for revolution.
THE PHILIPPINES Activists rose against corruption and to oust their president.
UK Having been rocked by a series of high-profile child abuse cases, activists focused their
rising at London’s famed Marble Arch on ending child sexual abuse. Activists rose against
the grooming of young girls to be sex slaves.
BOTSWANA Activists across sectors—government, health care, sex workers, prison
guards, students and teachers—organized around the online campaign #ChobeRises.
PAKISTAN Fifty banners which read “RISING FOR AN INCLUSIVE AND PEACEFUL PAKISTAN”
were sent to 26 districts nationwide, where activists wrote messages of peace, love, tolerance
and equality and sent them back to be displayed all together in Islamabad on 14 February.
UNITED STATES In Dallas, TX, inmates at the Dallas County Jail danced “Break the
Chain” as part of Volunteers of America Texas re-entry program, RESOLANA. In Miami, activists rose to end sex trafficking. In North Dakota,
Native American women rose in the Bakken oil
fields to end fracking and the direct connection
to sex trafficking and abuse. In Washington DC,
Veterans rose at the national monument to end
rape in the military.
GLOBALLY Drummers rose for the One Earth,
One Heart drum event that began the morning of
the 14th and followed the sun across the planet,
and activists hosted a virtual rising where disabled
women rose online.
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