About One Billion Rising ATLANTA
One Billion Rising Atlanta’s intent is to end the sexual and gender based violence and inequities that disproportionately effect women and girls.  We focus on building, supporting, and amplifying the work of Atlanta based collaborative relationships that produce local to global actions that make a positive difference.  We build community through collaborative Art. 

2013- Flashmob At Woodruff Park & Speakers at the Capitol
2014- Ebenezer Baptist Church
2015- Atlanta City Hall
2016- Artistic Uprising with Eve Ensler & Red Umbrella March
2017- The Vagina Monologues & Manologues
2018- Manologues, Flashmob & Healing Sexual Trauma Workshop


ONE BILLION RISING INTERNATIONAL

One Billion Rising is the largest mass action to end violence against women in human history.  A  global movement, founded by playwright and author, Eve Ensler, committing to end rape and sexual violence against women.  The international campaign began February 14, 2012, as a call to action based on the UN statistic that one out of three women on the planet will be beaten or raped in her lifetime. With the world population at over six billion, this adds up to more than a billion women and girls. 

On February 14, 2013, close to one billion women and men shook the earth through dance to end violence against women and girls.  In Atlanta, under the leadership of Nikki Noto, assisted by Allison Gars, we met at the state capitol where policy decisions are made that effect women who have been victims of domestic violence, campus rape, or human trafficking.  We then marched to Woodruff Park where over 7000 females and males of all ages, danced together in Woodruff Park to protest the violence and make the public aware of a problem that we needed to change.  The city of Atlanta turned the fountains pink to show their support of ending violence against women.  With Randi Lane, we supported the One Woman Rising statue which was placed in Freedom Park to inspire survivors to rise and thrive.

In 2014, activists in 200 countries rose for justice for all survivors of gender violence.  In Atlanta, with a core committee led by Allison Gars, Lisa Parsons, and Diane Dougherty, we  gathered at our own internationally known home of voices for Justice – the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church.  We gathered speakers, musicians, and collaborative partners from all sectors to share their perspectives, stories and wisdom in dealing with the problems and solutions.  During the year we illuminated and participated in a multitude of events to raise awareness, effect policy, and give voice to survivors.

In 2015, thousands rose for “R”EVOLUTION, a Revolution, based in Love, leading to our Evolution – an individual and collective commitment for positive change.  We were blessed to have the beautiful Atlanta City Hall as base as we honored the City of Atlanta for starting their own campaign “Take a Stand” to decrease sexual violence in Atlanta.  We sponsored the first Posts for Peace and Justice workshop, engaging communities together to discuss and put artistic voice to the issues we were facing, and with the help of the Atlanta BeltLine, we placed the posts where over 20,000 people passed by each week.  The posts have been present and raised awareness at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, The Carter Center, The King Center, Ebenezer Baptist and Atlanta City Hall, as well as events related to gender-based violence, or significant contributing factors.  Eve Ensler, Bernice King, Karin Ryan of the Carter Center, Laura Turner Seydel, Pat Mitchell, Elizabeth Omilami, Natosha Reid-Rice, many survivors, legislators, artists, and activists joined us, as well as groups that work on different aspects of ending or supporting survivors of gender based violence.
 
In 2016, we rose again for “R”EVOLUTION, and founder, Eve Ensler came to help support our artist uprising, reminding us how much artists contributions can effect the hearts of people, inspiring action.  We worked with the, Posts for Peace and Justice doing workshops, Hu-Man Up for movies about gender roles, Joyous Heart Network, to support survivors recovering from trauma, the Interfaith Childrens’ Movement on human trafficking, and the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence for their 5K, as well as many others.  We dedicated the posts on the BeltLine and did a Flashmob at Ponce City Market.  The Posts have just recently been designated as an official UN project for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and we will be developing a template in Atlanta that will then be rolled out internationally.  We also hope to contribute to both the City’s “Take a Stand” and the White House “It’s Up to Me” programs in the coming year through the Posts for Peace and Justice Program.
 
http://www.onebillionrising.org/about-one-billion-rising-2013/    Global One Billion Rising  2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6guRQb9Plkk   Global One Billion Rising 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02ncDwgIEo   One Billion Rising Atlanta

one billion rising worldwide campaign

The campaign began as a call to action based on the UN statistic that one out of three women on the planet will be beaten or raped in her lifetime. With the world population at over six billion, this adds up to more than a billion women and girls.
In 2013, One Billion women and men shook the earth through dance to end violence against women and girls.
In 2014, activists in 200 countries rose for justice for all survivors of gender violence.
In 2015, thousands rose to Revolution.
In 2016, we disrupted.
​Join us in 2017!
COME RISE WITH US
VIDEO by 13 Year old, Maya Penn
Original Song by Sam Collier & Fly Musiq