[act-ma] [UJP Activist] Invitation to One Billion Rising Event

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======== INVITATION TO ONE BILLION RISING EVENT ==============================

*When:* Thursday, February 14, 2013, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm *Where: *Calvary  
Church United Methodist • 300 Mass. Ave. • (Near Spy Pond, street  
parking, 77, 79, 350 bus routes) • Arlington   Joining thousands of women  
and men around the world, we invite you, your colleagues, neighbors, friends  
and family to a Community Speakout to *End Violence Against Women* being  
held under the auspices of Eve Ensler’s international*One Billing Rising  
project*.  On the 15th Anniversary of V-Day, a global activist movement to  
end violence against women and girls, the *Arlington Speakout *will  
take place:
Refreshments from 6:30 pm
One Billion Rising will move the earth, activating women and men across  
every country. 
V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers,  
our solidarity across borders.
One Billion Rising is:
 * A global strike
 * An invitation to dance
 * A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until
   rape and rape culture end
 * An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of
   our struggles and our power in numbers
 * A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given
 * A new time and a new way of being

Please follow this link for more information and to RSVP to the /*Arlington  
Speakout*/:  http://onebillionrising.org/ [1]

 

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UJP Coalition, formed after September 11th, seeks global peace through social  
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617-383-4857 www.justicewithpeace.org [5] Upcoming Events:  Phyllis Bennis:  
The Road Ahead [6] Wed Jan 16 7:00pm Episcopal Divinity School Cambridge  
Medea Benjamin: Resisting the Empire: Ground the Drones, Shrink the Pentagon,  
Create Peace [7] Thu Jan 31 7:00pm First Church in Cambridge Cambridge  
Massachusetts Peace Action Annual Meeting [8] Sat Feb 9 1:00pm First Baptist  
Church Newton Center Walk for Peace For the People – For the Earth - Boston  
area events [9] Wed Feb 20 9:00am Cambridge, Boston, Dorchester Panel  
Discussion on Immigration Reform [10] Thu Feb 21 11:00am tbd Boston area
/More Peace and Justice Events [11].    How to Submit Events [12]/ 
 

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[1] http://onebillionrising.org/
[2] http://justicewithpeace.org
[3] http://justicewithpeace.org/donate
[4] mailto:info at justicewithpeace.org
[5] http://www.justicewithpeace.org
[6] http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4088
[7] http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4187
[8] http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4163
[9] http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4183
[10] http://justicewithpeace.org/node/4182
[11] http://justicewithpeace.org/upcoming-events
[12] http://justicewithpeace.org/posting-events
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