hours since it's hit the dateline we've been up and activist in berkley and dazzling and london and roam and we've danced so much activity we've trentd on twitter in south africa and facebook now that's a billion people we rise to release our stories there artist we demanded that violence will end and we will work together to explore and dream about just the voices beverly and sylvia and

krisz 10 have spoken with a true voice and experience you must hear i see this crowd. we have had activist in india today and successor players in peru with homeless women coming together and talking about economic injustice and histories of alcohol liberalism and how those connect together. russel women in south africa have talked about abuse of and pakistan are rising to make sure that men and boys understand mass lubricant a. we have worked and san francisco you are truly rising together in berkley and merry listen and

palo alto all the area is rising. we've been honored to work with the mayor of san francisco and his incredible team i want to introduce my sister and board member to stand with me as we are rising thank all the 60 community groups who talked and dreamed and where it will lead into the future. we wanted to thank mayor ed lee and his incredible team and others all you amazing activists and people here i'm sorry, i miss printed out that name. and the idea of this event with emily when people came together

and rebecca and stephanie and the incredible team. i want to thank the department of commission on the statutes of women and this lady's tireless leadership has brought us here today with a community of activist that are enparallel and a staff who has shown up and plastered posters. i want to thank the team of women in mann how far helping people to get the word out hold up your signs. i want to thank emily and our production executive nan net murphy. emily and our board have been dancing and dreaming as this has happened throughout the are

world i spoke to our team in new york their prepping to rise this evening (clapping) and again, we're here in san francisco and i'm just honored it's my pleasure to introduce to you mayor ed lee who's made this possible today (clapping.) everybody thank you for being here in the great steps of our city hall of san francisco. that means something are you ready to dance? all right.. well, today, at the one billion rising for justice anita and i wanted to join all of you and all the people on stage whom i'm personally proud to work together with from the supervisors to all the treasurer

and all the elected officers we stand to end violence (clapping) we're doing what we can but you know when i look at those children and today valentine's day pay a lot of special attention to children don't we all. and what i want to be able to say to them we as adults we understand our efforts when we try to succeed in this endeavor and we are somewhat proud we as a city went for 44 months without a homicide. yes, that's something to be proud of

(clapping.) but as we look at our kids they don't deserve 44 months but 44 years of no violence (clapping) and so not now that those 44 months have tragedyly ended with the latest we have important work to do together recommitted to ending violence not only in our city but join hands with people around the world you, you know, who's watching us? 2 hundred other countries around the world are joining us today (clapping) and so we've got to send the message to end violence in all forms not only violence against women and children and girls but violence on every level is unacceptable and making sure that coming out today, we're

proud of our city but we're also proud that we have an agenda we can share with each other and do a lot more. so are you all ready to take a pledge? (clapping) . well, this is significant because this pledge means something it means we're not going to settle for 44 months but do to end violence in all forms. we have programs, we've got people on the ground and all the communications we've got not only government but the incredible workers of social services in our community the whole he network we're lucky to have in the status of women.

that's why we take the pledge and are you ready to take this pledge? (clapping) then please repeat after me. i am one of the one billion rising >> (repeated.) and i pledge that today feedback 14, 2014. >> (repeated.) i will rise for justice. >> (repeated.) and make freedom for women and girls. >> (repeated.) a priority of our time. >> (repeated.) and help to end violence. >> (repeated.) in my family. >> (repeated.) in my school. >> (repeated.)

my work place and my community. >> (repeated.) and in san francisco, california. >> (repeated.) thank you, everybody for taking the pledge congratulations (clapping.) san francisco are we ready to rock. come on i want to hear you (clapping) you know people around the world are looking at us just now and we want to make it allowed and clear this is no place where violence against women and young girls will be trorntd. one out of 3 women in their lifetime will face rape or a

serious assault that's not assembleable. men have to step up to the plate, too, we are sons and fathers and many of us are husbands as well. we have a collected obligation to make sure that violence against young girls and women will stop. today, today, we're going to raise the roof and show what san francisco stands for. thank you and let's be allowed and clear (clapping.) san francisco are we rising today? are we rising for justice are we part of the one billion. i'm david chiu and i'm proud to represent our board of

supervisors and the assistant district attorney and the domestic violence advocates fights on the front lines. i want to thank you all for being part of our city of love. in 1967 san francisco started the love and san francisco started love again, when we allowed lgbt couples to marry and on 1r58dz we're saying once again we know how to love and it doesn't 0 involve love against our women, children or families (clapping) i want to take a moment and recognize someone. 14 years ago the brutality

murder of one person shocked us her soul and spirit is with us in that time in 1y67 we had one thousand domestic homicides a year and we've gone 44 months without one. loss month another woman died at the hands of her man. one out of the 3 look to our left and your right someone in your sight has been a victim but as we look at our horizon remember we share a dream a dream that someday no woman and child and family will not suffer from violence in san francisco. let me close if you could see what we see you're a beautiful

mosaic of san francisco (clapping) and i represent 8 hundred thousand san franciscans that are part of the one billion that's rising today. thank you very much (clapping.) hello san francisco (clapping) oh, yeah, that's a san francisco that i know and love we show up for justice when the bell rings. my name is is andrea short eerie have the privilege and honor to serve as the vice president in san francisco on the status of women (clapping) and we're one of the organizations that is delighted

to put this together today, the event. i'm joined by my fellow commissioners julie and supervisor mar joe and amy give them an applause those are outstanding women and show the backs of what our city has to offer. so what does justice mean to me it means we all get to pursue life without violence. here in san francisco the department the police department received over 3 thousand cases of domestic violence every year as you've heard from our

assistant district attorney and our mayor. any one of those cases could become a homicide. i'm pleased to report in close collaboration with assistant district attorney and police cohesive surand other department headings heads that beverly and kathy black give them a round of applause their terrific they set on incredible standard and national model and work tireless to make sure we're all safety in san francisco. together we joined a record of 44 months without a single homicide. 44 months. 44 months and as the mayor said it is sad that while this record ended last month we will

continue to do everything possibly to end gender violence here in san francisco and you're with us on that; right? (clapping) so all of us every single person we were that has shown up here and those of you acting as ambassadors of friends and colleagues and relative that couldn't be here we know their stand with us to he said gender violence. i want to thank our mayor mayor ed lee for putting together a task force a major there you go an visible problem in our district. 83 thank you mayor ed lee we are very, very thankful for.

i'm also here to say that san francisco will not will not tolerate modern day slavery whether child sex traveling of our girls or women or whether or not it's labor trafficking and that is also including our routine u restaurants. so thank you for being here and join me and the commission on the status of women to end violence in san francisco. thank you san francisco we love you rise (clapping) and i'm back. >> my name is marlene i'm the ambassador the filipino women's

network. my board members have allowed me to donate my time i want to ask you to they can my board members (calling names.) (clapping.) . today would not have happened without our city officials and many, many thanks to nov. and the first lady of san francisco who makes a point to come and support us (clapping) but i want you to u to take a minute and look around you and can you tell who has experienced violence or who's been silenced or shamed i want to ask you have you ever been effected by violence have you known anyone

who has been assaulted or raped do you know if this person has got justice. this is not about raising awareness but about seeking justice about rising for justice for your friends. for anyone who has not received just because they've been silenced and shamed. to be complete survivors of violence have to feel they've received justice so i ask you to rise and help them release the shame and a silence and rights for justice and people have asked me why are we dance because you know what one billion rising is an escalation of our demand for justice for her and him and anyone

(clapping) who's been a victim of violence all forms of violence so dancing insists we take up space it has no direction but we go there together and we dance. dancing is dangerous it's joyous and sexual and wholly disyou republic active you can dance anywhere like here in front of the city hall and in your bathroom or the parking lot anywhere but you know it is happening here now and you are here and i thank you (clapping) and you know what dancing is free you can dance anywhere no corporation control substance

it. it joins us and pushes us to go further that's why we have rising for justice today, it's that contamination so go dance use your body and it's transient so dance dance dance not now wait for the music and keep dancing bus we have a great rapper who's going to play music but really keep dancing until our fingertip gets justice. thank you (clapping.) i'm going to introduce the next speaker. an american author a poet, a leading voice in career cultural

race class and here's the remarkable stunning michelle >> thank you. (clapping.) hi, feminists this is so great it's an how were you to get to be here and to share what justice looks like to me. i'm concerns are for women who are among the most targeted that is sex workers and transgender women. we have to look at our bodies whether a person enters the sex industry because of a dispute survival that's a women's right to do it. when men and women are recruited by the government to build war

careers it's particularly insane when prostitution are out laud people have no recourse to speak up. but also from police who have a bad history of buying prostitutes as well. women who work in prostitution can be murdered and some report being reciprocated in on job it's a feminist issue it looks like the transgender women in our community to educate ourself so our not trauma tiger's people like katie did. if you don't know what the term

transgender means it means if you're native body meets up with the gender and your a man and you're into it your masculine but for the millions of people who fall outside of this category the threat of viewpoints is real particle transgender women are highly up for violence. suzy was related from a men's facility after being there are for a man taikd her. if any other demographic of women were throne in prison for violence we should be outraged

there's a class women in our kult culture that can face job description a class of women so likely to be prisoned with men when they feet back from our attackers they find daily harassment to daily physical violence we must stand for justice for all transgender people and i know you guys are all down with that. thank you very much (clapping.) thank you all for sharing those stories are we ready to dance >> yeah. >> are we ready sylvia to dance. we want to hear you out allowed to the count of 3 we're going to

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