ONLINE
For 48 hours, as 14 February dawned
across the world, grassroots activists
staged risings and shared their
activities, videos, and images across
social media, including Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. In
addition to using the suggested
hashtags #1billionrising
and #rise4revolution,
activists launched the hashtags
#whyirise, #VetsRising
#SomosRevolución,
#UnBillónDePie, #choberises
and more. The campaign trended on
Twitter in the United Kingdom on 14
February. Tens of thousands of images,
videos, art pieces, and
messages of support
and defiance
spread across our
networks.
This year we livestreamed the
following events:
BUKAVU
DELHI
HARARE
HONG KONG
LIMA
LOS ANGELES
MANILA
MIAMI
ROME
Artistic Uprising: NYC
State of Female Revolution
Many more were videotaped and shown
online from Australia to Germany. Others
were captured via live tweeting and
Instagram.
BREAKING
THE SILENCE
Every year we see the power of releasing
stories, releasing pain and trauma, and
the healing power of a community coming
together to hold the space for testimonials.
This year, sex trafficking survivors spoke out
in defiance of their captors, veterans denounced the continued culture of denial of
sexual abuse in our military, and survivors
shared their My Revolution stories online:
www.onebillionrising.org/my-revolution/
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