{"id":34132,"date":"2013-02-14T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34132"},"modified":"2013-02-14T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:45:34","slug":"commondreams-around-the-world-a-billion-rise-to-fight-violence-against-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/02\/14\/commondreams-around-the-world-a-billion-rise-to-fight-violence-against-women-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"CommonDreams: Around the World, A &#8216;Billion Rise&#8217; to Fight Violence Against Women and Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the globe today women are dancing, striking, and in other ways &#8220;rising&#8221; to call attention to the plight of violence against women and girls across the many cultures of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Long celebrated as Valentine&#8217;s Day in many cultures and leveraged for the last fifteen years by women&#8217;s rights activists in the &#8220;V-Day movement,&#8221; today&#8217;s actions are a culmination of the &#8220;One Billion Rising&#8221; campaign spearheaded by author, playwright and activist Eve Ensler and champions equal rights and an end to violence against women and young girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFebruary 14, 2013 will change the world not because it is a day of magic, although there are indeed mystical elements surrounding this campaign. It will change the world because the preparation for it and organizing for it has already created an energetic wind or wave igniting existing efforts to end violence against women and create new ones,\u201d said Ensler in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/02\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the globe today women are dancing, striking, and in other ways &#8220;rising&#8221; to call attention to the plight of violence against women and girls across the many cultures of the planet. Long celebrated as Valentine&#8217;s Day in many cultures and leveraged for the last fifteen years by women&#8217;s rights activists in the &#8220;V-Day movement,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34133,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34132\/revisions\/34133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}