A Poem by Loukia Janavaras
We witness silence
as though loss can be absorbed
in an oil painting
freshly saturated.
And just then
you lean in
and I merge
once again
with the living.
One Billion Rising
Please go to their web site:
When we started V-Day 14 years ago, we had the outrageous idea that we could end violence against women. Since then, hundreds of thousands of V-Day activists in audiences and on stages in over 140 countries have come together to demand an end to violence against women and girls. The funds we’ve raised together have kept organizations’ doors open, and the issue front and center in local media.
But still today, the United Nations states that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime that’s more than one billion women and girls alive today.
V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, showing them exactly what one billion looks like.
ONE BILLION RISING is a promise that on February 14th, 2013, we will ensure that millions of women and men rise up around the world to say, “ENOUGH. The violence ends NOW.”
I look forward to dancing, striking and rising to end violence against women and girls together with you.
In solidarity,
Eve Ensler
Playwright, Founder of V-Day
One Billion Rising
A Video by Carighttoknow
A Poem by Diane Webster
Daisies
grow through
the white picket fence
like a little girl
peeking out her front door
to see if her parent’s car
drives up the street
before she can clean up
the broken glass
dropped
in the kitchen
An Idea from Jeffry Sachs, Columbia University economist
The cost to end extreme poverty in the world is about 175 billion dollars annually.
A Poem by Geno Cide
genocide the silence of spring
eco’s damage: the end is here
no healthy seeds—no children
only silence–no more an echo
crumbling everything & autistic
idiocrity gains and lost confetti
deaths disease and the dread
every birth defect: a genocide
http://projectagentorange.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/monsantos-genocide/
