Economic Empowerment
Date: 5 March 2011
Location: United Kingdom, London
"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
MILLION WOMEN RISE UNCUT 2011
Saturday 5 March 2011
Because Male Violence Continues, So Too Does Million Women Rise.
This year we will also be celebrating 100 years International Women's Day
JOIN US!
12pm Meet Hyde Park (Speakers Corner End Nearest Tube: Marble Arch)
1.30pm set off - Marching through Oxford St/Regents St to Trafalgar SQ
3.30 – 5.30pm Rally and Celebration in Trafalgar Square (Nearest Tubes: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross)
5pm - 1am Food and Networking Party at The 52 Club, http://www.the52club.co.uk/,
52 Gower Street WC1E6EB, please note this is a wheelchair accessible venue
Food, performances, swimming pool, DJs and chill-out space.
Suggested Donation
£5 low waged
£12 high waged
Or what you can afford
This is an All Women Event Only
Join The Million Women Rise Movement for an International All Women's March and Rally in Trafalgar Square, Central London
5th March 2011
TOGETHER WE WILL END MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Because male violence continues, so too does Million Women Rise.
Trusted friend – The women will once again be rising on Sat 5th March demanding an end to male violence against women and children in all it's forms in the UK and Internationally. Last year approx 8,000 women marched through central London – lets join forces and spread the word.
Million Women Rise
By the time you have read this email thousands more women will be raped, beaten and murdered.
FACTS AND FIGURES
The Reality in the UK Today
Two women are murdered every week by their partner or ex partner.
Only 5% of rapes reported to the police result in the perpetrator being convicted in court.
250 cases of forced marriage are reported each year.
One woman a month is murdered in the name of ‘so called’ honour.
1 in 3 local authorities in the UK do not have rape crisis centres.
Fewer than 1 in 10 local authorities have specialised support services for ethnic minority women.
Over 20,000 girls could be at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK.
Internationally
It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read.
In Lithuania, 20 to 50 percent women sexually exploited through prostitution are believed to be minors.
Each year, 2 million girls between the age of 5-15 are coerced, abducted or trafficked into sexual exploitation.
It is estimated that 1 in every 3 women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
Among women aged 15-44 years, gender-based violence accounts for more death and disability than the combined effects of cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war.
WE NEED YOU TO JOIN US. EVERY WOMEN ATTENDING IS ANOTHER VOICE TO BE HEARD AND TO SPEAK OUT FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT BE THERE TO SPEAK OUT FOR THEMSELVES.
Women Uncut
Million Women Rise is outraged about recent funding cuts have impacted the women’s sector with many vital women’s services losing their funding.
Cuts mean that there will be less protection for the most vulnerable of women from male violence.
The crisis in capitalism has led to these sever cuts in services for women and children from basic refuge provision to cuts in legal aid, all denying women and children safety and justice. The cuts are risking even more women's lives and the need to join together is as vital and urgent as ever
History has shown that Cuts will disproportionately affect black women, women in poverty, women with disabilities, and women with no recourse more than any other group of women.
We encourage women to wear red, and/or green.
The color red is most often associated with power, passion, courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertility, and happiness,
For MWR it symbolizes the colour of Woman and her blood, which contains life, courage, respect, dignity and protection
Green is life. Abundant in nature, green signifies growth, renewal, health, and environment. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth, environmental protection and social justice
Please go to www.millionwomenrise.com to sign our statement of demands or to make a donation. We are a grassroots movement and so we rely on your help to make this march happen.
Contact us for more information about Million Women Rise.
Million Women Rise
C/o WRC,
Ground Floor East,
33-41 Dallington St. East,
London
EC1V 0BB
Mobile Contact No: 07727 419 634
http://www.millionwomenrise.com/
http://millionwomanrise.blogspot.com/
EACH SISTER BRING A SISTER AND SPREAD THIS INVITE WIDE AND FAR....THANK YOU
IN SISTERHOOD AND SOLIDARITY
TOGETHER WE WILL END THIS VIOLENCE AGAINST US!
a mothers saying...
One Woman, One body, One song, One Love, One people