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Stonewall messed up. Let’s fix it.
1BillionRising 14 of February
Ever want a Dance lesson from Debbie Allen (dance teacher in Fame) ?
It’s your lucky day, want to preform that dance with a group of people?
Well you have 6 days to get ready.
1billionrising is happening on the 14 of February.
Globally 1 in 3 women will be raped or beaten in her life time, that is 1 billion women.
ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY
ONE BILLION WOMEN DANCING IS A REVOLUTION
On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, 14 February 2013, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.
What does ONE BILLION look like? On 14 February 2013, it will look like a REVOLUTION.
ONE BILLION RISING IS:
A global strike
An invitation to dance
A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends
An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers
A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given
A new time and a new way of being
Events are happening all over the world, there are many happening here in Ireland,
join an event near you or use the tool kit to start up your own.
And the video of the song which is being used
“If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman
Another XCase Date, 21 years on and still no legislation.
http://www.thejournal.ie/twenty-years-on-a-timeline-of-the-x-case-347359-Feb2012/
6 February 1992: X and her parents traveled to England and arrangements were made for an abortion to take place in London. On the same date, the Attorney General obtained an interim injunction stopping the teenager and her parents from leaving the country or arranging the termination of the pregnancy. Once they were informed of the injunction the family returned to Ireland.
The AG’s order was based on Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution, more specifically on the 1983 amendment that puts the right of the unborn child’s right to life on an equal footing of the mother’s right to life.
Whelen has since said that he had no choice but to seek the injunction as he had a duty to uphold the Constitution. He told an RTÉ documentary that his problem was “stark” after being contacted by the DPP.
This weeks has been filled so far with the abuses of women and children by the state and the church, be it children in industrial schools, children abused by priests, children put up for adoption who can not never find out their parent’s names, women put into laundries and used as slave labour or women driven abroad to have children and to have them adopted.
We have had 90 year of being our own country and honestly it seems to be little more then a litany of abusing and ignoring those who need compassion and care.
We still have people who are being mistreated in asylum holding places, old people’s homes, children’s care homes, and those in care due to disabilities.
In all my born days, despite the struggles watching the Dáil proceedings today, for the first time I find myself wanting to live in a different country.
Got any stories about those awful fetus feet pins?
I first saw them back in 1992 but they were in use as propaganda tools from 1979.
An exhibition about them and the type of progaganda the ‘pro life’ side has used over the years is going to take place shortly in he Copper House Gallery and they are still looking for contributions.
I’ve sent mine in, we do need a way to record our stories and to share them and this is a wonderful way to do so and ‘Make good art”.
http://www.10weeks.org/10-weeks-exhibition/
We’re looking for help to publicise two pro choice exhibitions please & help us collect stories and responses.
The written responses will be showcased within the exhibition and archived on this website whilst the recorded vocal responses will be accessible during the exhibition and on this website archive afterwards.
The written responses will be showcased within the exhibition and archived on this website whilst the recorded vocal responses will be accessible during the exhibition and on this website archive afterwards.
The history of reproductive rights and women’s rights in this country are closely linked but yet I find many of the wonderful feminist activist I have meet who are a decade or so younger then me are not aware of the history. You are carrying on the fight of many brave and wonderful women before you.