Flash mob dancers during the One Billion Rising in Davao City in southern Philippines. (Photos courtesy of Gabriela)
DAVAO CITY – Hundreds of people have danced in a flash mob with the group One Billion Rising (Revolution 2015) in Davao City in southern Philippines as part of a global campaign to end all forms of violence against women, organizers aid.
The participants, including members of the indigenous community, danced for five minutes in seven major intersections, according to Gabriela-Southern Mindanao, one of the initiators of the One Billion Rising here.
Leah Librado, a member of the city council, also filed a resolution expressing support to the One Billion Rising Revolution.
The flash mob also emphasized the call for truth and accountability and a call to rise for change, especially in the Aquino government, said Mary Ann Sapar, of Gabriela.
“Enough of government’s lies and deceptions, the Aquino government must be held accountable for many issues like poverty and corruption, from issues of state negligence to state-sponsored terrorism,” Sapar said.
She said that the government’s negligence to the welfare of the people and its fascism are some of the main reasons why there are people who revolt against the state. Women’s historical role, in advancing revolution and changing the society is vital, she added.
“The vivid conspiracy of US and the government of Aquino for instance, in all spheres, economic or political, military and cultural is indeed outraging. Many of us are impoverished and many die in hunger but instead of uplifting our conditions, the government inflicts all forms of repression and fascism against those who resist.”
“We will rise and continue to fight, and this fight will be undertaken by younger generations until a just and humane society exist,” Sapar said.
One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history. The campaign, launched on Valentine’s Day in 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that one in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.
With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than one billion women and girls and on February 14, 2013, people across the world came together to express their outrage, strike, dance, and rise in defiance of the injustices women suffer, demanding an end at last to violence against women.
Last year, One Billion Rising for Justice focused on the issue of justice for all survivors of gender violence, and highlighted the impunity that lives at the intersection of poverty, racism, war, the plunder of the environment, capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy.
Events took place in 200 countries, where women, men, and youth came together to Rise, Release, and Dance outside of court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not, according to campaigners. (Mindanao Examiner)
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