V-Day Annual Report 2015 | Page 7

OUR WORK IS GROUNDED IN 4 CORE BELIEFS: • Art has the power to transform thinking and inspire people to act • Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things • Local women best know what their communities need and can become unstoppable leaders • One must look at the intersection of class, environmental plunder, gender, imperialism, militarism, patriarchy, poverty, racism and war to fully understand violence against women 7