V-Day, 2010: Building The City of Joy
Joy in the DRC (Congo) sounds impossible. Yet, that’s exactly what Eve Ensler, founder of the V-Day Movement, intends to achieve. She dreams big and makes it happen. She has raised $70 million since 1998 to prevent violence against women and girls: Working at the intersection of art, social action and politics, V-Day … Read more
V-Day Victories for Eve Ensler: Best Leader & Schwarzenegger Backs Down
Eve Ensler, playwright and founder of V-Day, was named one of America’s Best Leaders in 2009 by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School and U.S. News Media Group. The full list is available on-line and will be published in U.S. News & World Report which will be available on Tuesday, October, 27. Ms. … Read more
Minimizing Rape: Phillips, Letterman, and Polanski
Young girls and women who experience incest, sexual molestation, and sexual harassment carry scars that never, ever quite heal. We tell ourselves that the sex was consensual because we can’t bear to say out loud that we were raped. . .often by someone we admired and respected. . .until he stole our innocence. On CNN, … Read more
Eve Ensler Takes the “Terminator” to School over Cuts to California’s DV Shelters
Eve Ensler’s got a way with words! She absolutely took “The Terminator,” California’s Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, to school in today’s Huffington Post.
Bravo, Eve Ensler! Hillary Clinton Visits the DRC
Eve Ensler’s V-Day movement has been working tirelessly for years to bring the world’s attention to the violence against women and girls in the DRC.
This week Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton brought a check for $17 million to the DRC to help fight sexual violence. She also offered the help of the US military’s Africa command and US legal experts to draw up new laws.
Bravo, Marcella Chester @ Abyss 2 Hope
Bloggers are the most creative people! A few months ago, I found this very clever “Just Being Real“ blog award. The blogger is a sexual abuse survivor who believes in breaking down the walls of silence surrounding violence against women and girls. Today, I discovered another very clever blog by Marcella Chester to: explore the messy … Read more
Would you endure 40,000 lashes for your cause?
In the spirit of Gahndi, Lubna-Ahmed al-Hussein is willing to submit to 40,000 lashes for wearing pants in public. Ms. Hussein works for the UN which has recently been criticized by Eve Ensler for failing in their promise to prevent violence against women in the Congo. The UN is not supporting Ms. Hussein’s courageous decision to go on trail rather than opt for diplomatic immunity.
Eve Ensler: Washington Post Op-ed
A Broken U.N. Promise in Congo Originally published in: Washington Post, 06/30/2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR200906… BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo — Just over a year ago, in answering whether sexual violence in conflict was an issue that the U.N. Security Council should take on, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proclaimed, “I am proud that, today, we respond … Read more
Domestic Violence Prevention: International Stage
Some have suggested that the third wave of feminism is international. There are times when I stridently believe that we need to get our own house in order before we start going out into the world.
Yet, I am humbled when I read about the horrendous abuse women experience in other countries ~ especially in war zones. A military weapon more powerful than any bomb is to rape a woman in front of her family.
The person most in the forefront, of course, is Eve Ensler. Her current efforts are focused on the Congo.
