Transition to Permaculture: Building Resilient Communities is the
convergence of two convergences: the annual Northern California
Permaculture Convergence and the Northern California Regional Transition
Network Conference--and it is happening October 11th-13th at the Solar
Living Institute in Hopland, CA. The convergence will be bringing
together permaculturists, community organizers, and all kinds of excited
people to take part in discussions, classes, dialogues, workshops, and
other facilitated experiences to inspire further action in a movement
for community resilience.
This year, the Village
Commons will be in the very center of the convergence space and will
host an open community kitchen alongside a stage, tea lounge, communal
space, and bioregional meet ups.
The community kitchen will be a
free and accessible space where everyone converging over the three days
of the conference can bring their produce, dried goods, spices, oils,
and other items to prepare and cook into wonderful, nutritious meals to
keep nourished through the weekend. How you choose to use the kitchen
is up to you: you may fry up some veggies and a couple eggs for
yourself, or you may get together with others, share ingredients, and
cook up a large meal to share with many.
Through this
community kitchen we hope not only to share a space in which all can
meet their own needs through their own hands and stay happy and healthy
throughout the conference, but also seek to demonstrate a piece of
infrastructure that is currently missing from most of our cities and
many of our social environments, urban and otherwise: open and
accessible common-space kitchens.
Today, about 1 in 6
Americans receive food stamps to assist them in purchasing food. Many
of these people, and many of those who do not depend on food stamps,
often have no place to cook for themselves. This leads to an all too
frequent influence to purchase foods that are easy to eat without
cooking or preparation, which at poverty level are often potato chips,
pre-cooked and preserved sandwiches, and other "junk foods" rather than
the raw and nutrient-rich dried fruits and nuts that can be purchased at
the higher priced end. Through access to kitchens and being able to
cook one's own meals or prepare meals with others, people may very well
be empowered to cook with whole foods, bring greater nutrition to
themselves, and feel able to purchase higher quality foods and eat less
junk.
At the Village Commons of the Building Resilient
Communities Convergence this October 2013 we seek to demonstrate such a
model community kitchen.
www.TransitionToPermaculture.org
Monday, October 7, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Permaculture Design Site Analysis and Assessment Open Skill Share & Work Day
Permaculture Design Site Analysis and Assessment Open Skill Share & Work Day
Thursday, September 12th Sun Up to Sun Down (All Day)
Oakland Roots School of Urban Sustainability
923 Martin Luther King Jr. Way & 10th Street, Oakland, CA
(4 blocks west of 12th Street BART)
RSVP for phone number: e-mail RootsRhizing@gmail.com
I will be doing a permaculture design site analysis and assessment for the urban lot that is being transformed into the Oakland Roots School of Urban Sustainability. I will be there sun up to sun down to watch and record the movement of the sun, and the resulting moving sun and shade patterns on the land. People are welcome any time of the day. The more present you are the more I am able to share with you. We will also be hauling water from a nearby spigot to fill a water cistern. To read about what a full site analysis and assessment entails, visit http://risingrootsdesign.blogspot.com/p/permaculture-information.html
Thursday, September 12th Sun Up to Sun Down (All Day)
Oakland Roots School of Urban Sustainability
923 Martin Luther King Jr. Way & 10th Street, Oakland, CA
(4 blocks west of 12th Street BART)
RSVP for phone number: e-mail RootsRhizing@gmail.com
I will be doing a permaculture design site analysis and assessment for the urban lot that is being transformed into the Oakland Roots School of Urban Sustainability. I will be there sun up to sun down to watch and record the movement of the sun, and the resulting moving sun and shade patterns on the land. People are welcome any time of the day. The more present you are the more I am able to share with you. We will also be hauling water from a nearby spigot to fill a water cistern. To read about what a full site analysis and assessment entails, visit http://risingrootsdesign.blogspot.com/p/permaculture-information.html
Friday, September 6, 2013
ROOTS Calendar
SF East Bay Area Permaculture Events, Workshops, and Garden Work Days
Saturday, September 7 - Urban Gardens and Heavy Metal: Getting the Lead Out
10am - 12pm @ Ecology Center in Berkeley; 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA
Saturday, September 7 - Project Nuevo Mundo - Central American Permaculture Project Network
3pm - midnight @ PLACE for Sustainable Living; 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA
Saturday, September 7 - Water Harvesting - A Rehydration Solution
10am - 3pm @ Permaculture Skills Center; 2185 Highway 116 S., Sebastopol, CA
Sunday, September 8 - Dervishes' Permaculture Homestead Monthly WorkPlay Day
11am - 7pm @ Pinole, CA (message for address: 707-357-1410
Every Sunday work days at gardens around the east bay
Park Garden Work Day 12pm - dark @ Park and Cleveland Street, Oakland, CA (east of the lake)
Strong Roots Community Garden 1 - 4pm @ Sacramento and Woolsey, Berkeley, CA
Chestnut Community Garden 2 - 7 pm @ 34th and Chestnut, Oakland, CA
Monday, September 9 - Berkeley Crop Swap - gift and/or receive plants, seeds, food, and more
6:30 pm @ Ohlone Park, Berkeley, CA
Monday, September 9 - East Bay Permaculture Guild meeting
7pm @ PLACE for Sustainable Living; 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA
Wednesday, September 11 - Vandana Shiva speaks with Gopal of Movement Generation
7pm @ 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Thursday, September 12 - Remediating Arsenic in Soil at the Santa-Fe Right-Of-Way
10am - 12pm @ Derby St. and Acton St., Berkeley, CA
Saturday, September 14 - Memorial Park Edible Landscape Garden work party
10am - 12 pm @ Portland Avenue and Carmel, Albany, CA
Saturday, September 14 - Willow Street Garden celebration with food, music, and speakers
4pm @ 9th and Willow, Oakland, CA
Sunday, September 15 - Worm Composting with Urban Worm
2pm - 3pm @ Urban Adamah; 1050 Parker St.; Berkeley, CA
Sunday, September 15 - Water - Thinking Like a Desert presented by Transition Albany
2 - 4:30pm @ Albany Library Edith Stone Room; 1247 Marin Ave., Albany, CA
Thursday, September 26 - Fishbone and Lead: Remediation Strategies for Urban Soils
7pm - 9pm @ Ecology Center in Berkeley; 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA
Sunday, September 28 - Freeing Land for Food: Urban Greening Projects and Gentrification
11am - 1pm @ Phat Beets Produce; 942 Stanford Ave., Oakland, CA
POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 19th
Sunday, September 28 - Place-Making Block Party
@ PLACE for Sustainable Living, 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, September 29 - Your Gut - Key To Your Health presented by Transition Albany Health Group
2 - 4:30pm @ Albany Library Edith Stone Room; 1247 Marin Ave., Albany, CA
If you want an event added to this calendar please e-mail RootsRhizing@gmail.com
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Transforming Spaces workshop at Symbiosis Gathering 2013
Ryan Rising of Rising Roots Design will be facilitating a workshop, storytelling, and dialogue at Symbiosis Gathering 2013 (www.SymbiosisGathering.com) of Transforming Spaces: implementing permaculture through direct action. Symbiosis Gathering takes place September 19th through 23d in Oakdale, CA and will be hosting a permaculture intensive, Elementary Alchemy, before the gathering September 14th through 18th.
Transforming Spaces workshop
This workshop will explore how we can act directly to change the world in which we live and transition our created environments, urban and otherwise, to be in greater balance with the earth's natural ecosystems. We will start with a story telling of direct actions over the past two years that have gone outside the realm of what is necessarily legal to create permaculture in the world around us; transitioning from systems based on resource importation and relationships of domination and capital to systems that embody symbiosis, mutual aid, and horizontal structures. From liberating busy city streets to allow the human movement of dance, to emancipating the earth below our feet for growing food, this conversation will explore the many ways in which we can create environments that foster community, ecology, and vitality.
Come hear stories from the occupy farm, renegade festivals, the struggle to save neighborhood gardens, and politically-active tent cities, and share some of your own. We will talk about future plans for a regional Village Building Convergence and the creation of greenhouses, plant nurseries, urban farms, and accessible kitchens in each and every square mile of the places we inhabit. Join in a dialogue around how each of us can create permaculture where you live, whether by creating a guerrilla garden in an abandoned lot near your home, or facilitating a skills and assets mapping of your whole town to connect people in a gift economy of food, medicine, and other needs and services. What can you think of outside the bounds of the current paradigms of hierarchy and capital? What is it you want to create? Come learn how to imagine, organize, and act together!
Transforming Spaces workshop
This workshop will explore how we can act directly to change the world in which we live and transition our created environments, urban and otherwise, to be in greater balance with the earth's natural ecosystems. We will start with a story telling of direct actions over the past two years that have gone outside the realm of what is necessarily legal to create permaculture in the world around us; transitioning from systems based on resource importation and relationships of domination and capital to systems that embody symbiosis, mutual aid, and horizontal structures. From liberating busy city streets to allow the human movement of dance, to emancipating the earth below our feet for growing food, this conversation will explore the many ways in which we can create environments that foster community, ecology, and vitality.
Come hear stories from the occupy farm, renegade festivals, the struggle to save neighborhood gardens, and politically-active tent cities, and share some of your own. We will talk about future plans for a regional Village Building Convergence and the creation of greenhouses, plant nurseries, urban farms, and accessible kitchens in each and every square mile of the places we inhabit. Join in a dialogue around how each of us can create permaculture where you live, whether by creating a guerrilla garden in an abandoned lot near your home, or facilitating a skills and assets mapping of your whole town to connect people in a gift economy of food, medicine, and other needs and services. What can you think of outside the bounds of the current paradigms of hierarchy and capital? What is it you want to create? Come learn how to imagine, organize, and act together!
Some Notes from the August Meeting of the East Bay Permaculture Guild
Some Notes from the August Meeting of the East Bay Permaculture Guild
August 12th 7pm @ PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland, CA
BOOKS
-Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture
--Christopher Shein
PROJECTS
-PLACE for Sustainable Living in North Oakland is facilitating a place making project on the intersection where PLACE is located. Look for their block party coming up on September 28th. There will be a street mural painting and place building projects!
-In the Basque Country near Spain, visitor Ortzi Akizu Gardoki is co-creating a EcoPark called Ekogunea Ecopark. Find more at ekogunea.net
-East Bay Co-Housing facilitator Raines Cohen just got back from 5 weeks touring European eco-villages; report backs and pictures to come
-Brennan will be facilitating earth bench and other natural building projects in San Francisco and needs volunteers; get in touch with him through www.earthbench.org to learn and volunteer on upcoming cobb, clay, straw, and plaster work projects
EVENTS
-September? 6th, 7th, and 8th - ranch and farm-scale water development including springs, floating island, wetlands, etc. through David Cody
-Roberto Perez permaculture talks
-Eric Toensmeir workshop coming up by Living Mandala
-Toby Hemenway teaching a course with Daly Acts in Petaluma
--scholarships and work trades available
---DalyActs.org
---Toby Hemenway author of Gaia's Garden
NOTES ON PRESENTATION - REPORT BACK FROM ERIC TOENSMEIR WORKSHOP
-presenter has been working with Daly Acts
--Daly Acts installed food forests at Petaluma City Hall; installed perennial polyculture; will be harvesting first Kiwi vines this year
-transforming problems into solutions
--lawns into gardens
---lawns waste water, resources (soil, space)
---gardens create food, connections, diversity
-mentioned Trathen's greywater system
-MORE FOOD FORESTS INTO OUR URBAN SYSTEMS
--Occidental Arts and Ecology Center is far away
---27 people took food forest workshop there
---feeling of being grounded and safer there
-a food forest is a garden modeled after a forest ecology
-AGROFORESTRY
--Eric Toensmeir is working with a corporation who is sequestering carbon, growing chestnuts, and coppicing them
--Land Institute pioneering perennial food crops in Kansas
-(lawns are the largest irrigated crop in the US!, second is corn)
--Sunflowers
--Wheat Germ
--Wheat Grass
--Sorghum
---perennializing these four crops
--we need nuts, fats, oils for a balanced diet
-Eric Olson's permaculture skills center
--sunflowers from Chevron action came from here
---organized by Urban Tilth
COPPICING
-Black Locust is coppiced on a 6 year cycle
-looking for the diameter of pole you need for your use
--such as for tool handles, structure poles, etc.
-indigenous practice (Tending the Wild?)
WEBSITES
-Perennial Solutions: perennialsolutions.org
--Eric Toensmeir has a website of plant guilds
--"All Nitrogen Fixers are not Created Equal": article by Eric Toensmeir
-Apios Institute: ApiosInstitute.org
-Plants For A Future: pfaf.org
PLACE MAKING
-BAY AREA PLACE MAKING WEBSITE is in the works!
-Placemaking Facilitation
--Ask the people in the neighborhood:
---What's the issue?
---What's the root problem of that issue?
---What's the basic solutions?
---How is that solution developed/embodied?
---What are the effects of solving that issue?
Thursday, April 11, 2013
More Upcoming Workshops!
Earth Day SF @ Civic Center
Rising Roots will be hosting a workshop space within the Permaculture and DIY area of the event.
A Mobile Ecology Center and Permaculture Design Lab will host workshops throughout the day including Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action.
Earth Day SF is a free event on April 20th at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco
Join us again for Whole Earth Festival @ UC Davis quad, CA; May 10th through 12th, 2013
Whole Earth Festival: http://wef.ucdavis.edu
Saturday, May 11th, 12 - 1 pm Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action
Saturday, May 11th, 3 - 4 pm Drum Along with Thunderground Collective
Sunday, May 12th, 3 - 4 pm Permaculture Design Lab
Earth Day SF @ Civic Center
Rising Roots will be hosting a workshop space within the Permaculture and DIY area of the event.
A Mobile Ecology Center and Permaculture Design Lab will host workshops throughout the day including Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action.
Earth Day SF is a free event on April 20th at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco
Join us again for Whole Earth Festival @ UC Davis quad, CA; May 10th through 12th, 2013
Whole Earth Festival: http://wef.ucdavis.edu
Saturday, May 11th, 12 - 1 pm Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action
Saturday, May 11th, 3 - 4 pm Drum Along with Thunderground Collective
Sunday, May 12th, 3 - 4 pm Permaculture Design Lab
Monday, March 4, 2013
Join Ryan Rising of Rising Roots Design at Lucidity Festival for the Mobile Ecology Center and Permaculture Design Lab, as well as a facilitated discussion on Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action.
http://lucidityfestival.com/workshops/ryan-rising/
http://lucidityfestival.com/workshops/ryan-rising/
Scheduled Workshops
Mobile Ecology Center & Permaculture Design Lab
Day: Friday, Saturday, Sunday | Duration: 3 min. | Location: Family GardenThe Mobile Ecology Center is a space that can be created anywhere at anytime and consists of blankets and tapestries and snacks; a full library of books on ecology, permaculture, organic gardening, and holistic arts and sciences, and a seed library of hundreds of species of organic and heirloom seeds. The Permaculture Design Lab allows you to put what you learn from the discussions, workshops, and books into practice and offers an array of tools, drawing boards, paper, pencils, rulers, & stencils. Draw a design for your imagined garden, select edible, medicinal, and other useful species, analyze how the elements will move through your landscape, and take your plan home to create space. A certified permaculture designer will be on hand to guide you through the process and answer questions.Transforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action
Day: Sunday | Duration: 60 min. | Location: Family GardenTransforming Space: Permaculture and Direct Action will be a discussion about transforming urban space. From liberating busy city streets to allow the human movement of dance, to emancipating the earth below our feet for growing food, this conversation will explore the many ways in which we can create environments that foster community, ecology, and vitality, right in the concrete jungle. Come here stories from the occupy farm, renegade festivals, the struggle to save neighborhood gardens, and politically-active tent cities, and share some of your own. We'll talk about future plans for a regional Village Building Convergence and the creation of greenhouses, plant nurseries, urban farms, and accessible kitchens in each and every square mile of the places we inhabit."
Workshop Locations
Lucidity Festival will be held at Live Oak Campground in Santa Barbara, April 12-14, 2013
http://lucidityfestival.com
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Rising Roots participates in 1 Billion Rising: Dance Through the Streets for a Culture of Consent
We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities.
We are coming together for a healing process and creating space that fosters both joy and sadness, love and anger, art and action. We will be calling for people to leave their schools and workplaces as we pass by buildings in San Francisco and join this global strike against rape culture. We stand for a culture of consent.
We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities.
https://www.facebook.com/events/343246352456261/
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jjgg
www.onebillionrising.org
www.herrising.org
Find us throughout the day by searching:
#MissionRising
#1BillionMission
or follow
@RisingRoots
on twitter
11am - 1pm @ Dolores Park (18th and Dolores)
*DJ RyuRy:
https://www.facebook.com/ryanryury
*DJ Subversive / Ian Bender
https://www.facebook.com/ian.bender.127?ref=ts&fref=ts
*Craig Rouskey Music
https://www.facebook.com/crouskey?fref=ts
*Thunderground Collective
https://www.facebook.com/thundergroundcollective?fref=ts
Cricket Suess
https://www.facebook.com/Suessical?fref=ts
DJ Domitrio
1pm-4pm: Dance Through the Mission
4pm: One Billion Rising: San Francisco City Hall
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jvwj
5:30pm: One Billion Rising Bay Area Flash Mob
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrg4
https://www.facebook.com/events/343246352456261/
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jjgg
www.onebillionrising.org
www.herrising.org
Find us throughout the day by searching:
#MissionRising
#1BillionMission
or follow
@RisingRoots
on twitter
11am - 1pm @ Dolores Park (18th and Dolores)
*DJ RyuRy:
https://www.facebook.com/ryanryury
*DJ Subversive / Ian Bender
https://www.facebook.com/ian.bender.127?ref=ts&fref=ts
*Craig Rouskey Music
https://www.facebook.com/crouskey?fref=ts
*Thunderground Collective
https://www.facebook.com/thundergroundcollective?fref=ts
Cricket Suess
https://www.facebook.com/Suessical?fref=ts
DJ Domitrio
1pm-4pm: Dance Through the Mission
4pm: One Billion Rising: San Francisco City Hall
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jvwj
5:30pm: One Billion Rising Bay Area Flash Mob
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrg4
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ryan Rising
201-388-2367
RootsRhizing@GMail.com
ONE BILLION RISING: (Dance Through the Streets for a Culture of Consent)
(Mission Rising) JOINS GLOBAL CAMPAIGN - ONE BILLION RISING - TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
February 14, 2013 to be V-Days Largest Day of Action Ever
February 14, 2013, Mission Rising: On February 14, 2013, at 11a.m., Mission Rising will join with activists around the world for ONE BILLION RISING, the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.
ONE BILLION RISING began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. On February 14, 2013, V-Days 15th anniversary, Mission Rising will join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, and women and men across the world as we express their outrage, demand change, strike, dance, and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women.
When we started V-Day 14 years ago, we had the outrageous idea that we could end violence against women, said Ensler. Now, we are both stunned and thrilled to see that this global action is truly escalating and gaining force, with union workers, parliament members, celebrities, and women of all backgrounds coming forward to join the campaign. When we come together on February 14, 2013 to demand an end to violence against women and girls it will be a truly global voice that will rise up.
We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities.
# # #
About One Billion Rising
One in three women on the planet is raped or beaten in her lifetime. That is ONE BILLION WOMEN violated. One billion daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, lovers and friends. On 14th February 2013, V-Day's 15th Anniversary, 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 to dance across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers and our solidarity across borders. Join V-Day and ONE BILLION RISING today and SAY NO to violence against women and girls. To sign up and learn more, visit www.onebillionrising.org
About V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologuesand other artistic works. In 2012, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $90 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, reopened shelters, and funded over 14,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. Over 300 million people have seen a V-Day benefit event in their community. V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements including Worth Magazine's 100 Best Charities, Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, one of the Top-Rated organizations on Philanthropedia/Guidestar and Great Nonprofits. V-Day's newest campaign is ONE BILLION RISING which will culminate on 021413 with a global action worldwide. www.vday.org
To learn more about V‑Day (Mission Rising), call (201) 388-2367 or e-mail the organization at RootsRhizing@gmail.com. To learn more about V‑Day and its campaigns visitwww.vday.org
# # #
https://www.facebook.com/events/343246352456261/
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jjgg
www.onebillionrising.org
www.herrising.org
Find us throughout the day by searching:
#MissionRising
#1BillionMission
or follow
@RisingRoots
on twitter
11am - 1pm @ Dolores Park (18th and Dolores)
*DJ RyuRy:
https://www.facebook.com/ryanryury
*DJ Subversive / Ian Bender
https://www.facebook.com/ian.bender.127?ref=ts&fref=ts
*Craig Rouskey Music
https://www.facebook.com/crouskey?fref=ts
*Thunderground Collective
https://www.facebook.com/thundergroundcollective?fref=ts
Cricket Suess
https://www.facebook.com/Suessical?fref=ts
DJ Domitrio
1pm-4pm: Dance Through the Mission
4pm: One Billion Rising: San Francisco City Hall
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jvwj
5:30pm: One Billion Rising Bay Area Flash Mob
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrg4
###
Contact: Ryan Rising
201-388-2367
RootsRhizing@GMail.com
ONE BILLION RISING: (Dance Through the Streets for a Culture of Consent)
(Mission Rising) JOINS GLOBAL CAMPAIGN - ONE BILLION RISING - TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
February 14, 2013 to be V-Days Largest Day of Action Ever
February 14, 2013, Mission Rising: On February 14, 2013, at 11a.m., Mission Rising will join with activists around the world for ONE BILLION RISING, the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.
ONE BILLION RISING began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. On February 14, 2013, V-Days 15th anniversary, Mission Rising will join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, and women and men across the world as we express their outrage, demand change, strike, dance, and RISE in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women.
When we started V-Day 14 years ago, we had the outrageous idea that we could end violence against women, said Ensler. Now, we are both stunned and thrilled to see that this global action is truly escalating and gaining force, with union workers, parliament members, celebrities, and women of all backgrounds coming forward to join the campaign. When we come together on February 14, 2013 to demand an end to violence against women and girls it will be a truly global voice that will rise up.
We will gather at Dolores Park between 11am and 1pm to listen to live bands and DJs, share food, and make signs. At 1pm we will dance our way through the Mission calling on people to leave work and school in a global strike against rape culture. When we reach 16th and Mission we will cover the ground with art and inspirational messages and dance in the streets. We will then continue to Civic Center/City Hall where we will join the flashmob and other festivities.
# # #
About One Billion Rising
One in three women on the planet is raped or beaten in her lifetime. That is ONE BILLION WOMEN violated. One billion daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, lovers and friends. On 14th February 2013, V-Day's 15th Anniversary, 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 to dance across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers and our solidarity across borders. Join V-Day and ONE BILLION RISING today and SAY NO to violence against women and girls. To sign up and learn more, visit www.onebillionrising.org
About V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play The Vagina Monologuesand other artistic works. In 2012, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $90 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, reopened shelters, and funded over 14,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. Over 300 million people have seen a V-Day benefit event in their community. V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements including Worth Magazine's 100 Best Charities, Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, one of the Top-Rated organizations on Philanthropedia/Guidestar and Great Nonprofits. V-Day's newest campaign is ONE BILLION RISING which will culminate on 021413 with a global action worldwide. www.vday.org
To learn more about V‑Day (Mission Rising), call (201) 388-2367 or e-mail the organization at RootsRhizing@gmail.com. To learn more about V‑Day and its campaigns visitwww.vday.org
# # #
https://www.facebook.com/events/343246352456261/
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jjgg
www.onebillionrising.org
www.herrising.org
Find us throughout the day by searching:
#MissionRising
#1BillionMission
or follow
@RisingRoots
on twitter
11am - 1pm @ Dolores Park (18th and Dolores)
*DJ RyuRy:
https://www.facebook.com/ryanryury
*DJ Subversive / Ian Bender
https://www.facebook.com/ian.bender.127?ref=ts&fref=ts
*Craig Rouskey Music
https://www.facebook.com/crouskey?fref=ts
*Thunderground Collective
https://www.facebook.com/thundergroundcollective?fref=ts
Cricket Suess
https://www.facebook.com/Suessical?fref=ts
DJ Domitrio
1pm-4pm: Dance Through the Mission
4pm: One Billion Rising: San Francisco City Hall
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/4jvwj
5:30pm: One Billion Rising Bay Area Flash Mob
http://www.onebillionrising.org/page/event/detail/startarising/wrg4
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