One Billion Rising is the name of a global movement in more than
200 countries to end rape and sexual violence against women. The
campaign highlights the startling statistic that one in every three
women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime — over one
billion women. This year’s theme is "revolution." We are joined by two
guests: V-Day founder and award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, creator
of "The Vagina Monologues"; and Kimberle Crenshaw, a law professor at UCLA
and Columbia University, and founder of the African American Policy
Forum, whose new report is "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced
and Underprotected."
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AMY GOODMAN:
Climbing Poe Tree performing "Awaken" at the Artistic Uprising here in
New York City last Saturday, part of One Billion Uprising. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.NERMEEN SHAIKH: One Billion Rising is the name of a global movement in more than 200 countries to end rape and sexual violence against women. The campaign was launched by playwright Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, and it highlights the startling statistic that one in every three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
AMY GOODMAN: Eve Ensler joins us here in New York. We are also joined by KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, law professor at UCLA and Columbia University, V-Day board member, founder of the African American Policy Forum. Their new report is "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected." Before we go to Boston with Professor Crenshaw, Eve, talk about the organizing that has been going on, even leading up to Valentine’s Day, to V-Day.
EVE ENSLER: Well, this is the third year, and it’s gone from One Billion Rising to One Billion Rising for Justice to One Billion Rising Revolution. And I’m really thrilled to say that we’re definitely 200 countries. But I think what’s really exciting this year is how the theme of revolution has been adopted from place to place. Yesterday I was at a luncheon with Dr. Bernice King, who is part of One Billion Rising Atlanta.
