Million Women Rise Contacts in your Country and Town
SUPPORT WOMEN EVERYWHERE...
We are at a threshold. We are going to see change. If we can create the vision in our heart, it will spread. As women of wisdom we cannot be divided. As bringers of light, we have no choice but to join together. Agness Baker Pilgrim www.GrandmothersCouncil.com
Money should not be the reason why a woman cannot get to London for Saturday 6th March 2010. Please contact us if your area is not listed below.
COACHES / MINIBUSES
Please let us know if you can help organise a coach or minibus to London from your local area. We can help connect you with women who live nearby and may also be able to help with fundraising.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT MILLION WOMEN RISE?
There are many ways you can get involved with Million Women Rise or support our activities. Here are some suggestions:
1. COME TO OUR NEXT ACTION!
The most important thing you can do to support us is to attend our next action ON THE 6TH MARCH 2010. Each One Teach One...Each Sister bring a Sister...For latest announcements keep checking the website for details, or join our mailing list, below.
2. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
To do this send a blank email with 'subscribe' in the subject field. Please also join our facebook page.
3. DONATE
Each of our actions costs money. If you would like to donate to our campaign, please click on the DONATE! button above which will take you directly to our paypal page. All donations, however small, are greatly appreciated and will allow us to continue mounting peaceful, creative, high-profile actions and keep pressure on the government to take action on Ending Male violence Against women in all it's forms.
4. JOIN ONE OF OUR WORKING GROUPS
If you have some spare time and would like to get involved with our next action, email us to find out how.
HOW CAN I CONTACT MILLION WOMEN RISE WITH MEDIA ENQUIRIES?
Press should contact MWR Media co ordinator with any media requests.
Still I Rise
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Maya Angelou
Join the Conversation
There are many non-financial ways to contribute to the Million Women Rise, please join in!• Offer us feedback and ideas. Send us your reflections by email or mail
• Contact several venues you have personal connections to - your school, work place, religious or community center, library, college, book group, etc. - and suggest that they host a Million women rise presentation. Tell them about our work, and generate interest. Then, put us in touch with the appropriate person to send more info.
(If every woman who visits our site could help us spread the whisper our work would reach thousands of more women for 2010
• Host a Million women rise yourself if you can't make it to London.
• Host a fundraiser for Million women rise or for transport to get here
• volunteer for, or do an internship with, Million Women Rise.
Support the Million Women Rise Coalition's petition
Support the Million Women Rise Coalition's petition which is on the Prime Minister's website.
The Coalition consists of a group of women from women's voluntary organisations and individuals who have come together on a voluntary basis to highlight the continuing violence against women and to demand that steps are taken to end it. Details about our work can be found at our website on www.millionwomenrise.com Our supporters include trade unions, women's aid and rape crisis centres and countless other groups working with women survivors of violence.
On 8 March 2008 and Saturday 7th March 2009 we organised our first marches in Central London. Despite our limited resources (we rely totally on donations), some 5,000 women joined us in calling for an end to all violence against women. Plans are already being made for the next rally and march. which we believe will be much bigger than our first one.
our petition
which calls for a national strategy to deal with violence against women and for International Women's Day to be declared a national public holiday in recognition of the positive contribution made by women nationally and worldwide has been handed in and we should be receiving a reply in the next two weeks
Million Women Rise . Together We Will End Violence Against Women
The Women and Children of England calling for peace in Gaza
Million Women Rise calling for peace in Gaza
Million Women Rise will be supporting the demonstration to call for the violence in Gaza to end. Innocent women and children are being murdered via the violent actions of the Israeli armed forces.
Further details– see www.palestinecampaign.org
Million Women Rise calls for an end to all wars (the statement of demands include the following call to government: "To recognise that global war and conflict perpetuates violence against women and to stop all wars now. Three out of four fatalities of war are women and children")
Let's rise together and make our demands known.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Reclaim the night 2009
Assemble Whitehall Place, central London for women’s march to Camden Centre for mixed rally and party until late.
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