As the debate over reproductive rights rages in the House, and Senate
Republicans have tried to thwart the re-authorization of the Violence
Against Women Act, we speak with Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, the
global movement to end domestic violence, and the playwright behind "The
Vagina Monologues." "The fact is we have not busted this notion that
the father still dominates and has authority over women and children,
and determines the rights of our lives, determines the rights of our
futures and bodies," Ensler says. "If we’re going to actually free women
— which is freeing men, which is allowing everybody a life of dignity
and grace and not walking in fear and terror — we have to go further and
be disruptive and be dangerous." Ensler has just launched a new global
campaign called, "One Billion Rising," which calls on women "and the men
who love them" to join together on Feb. 14, 2013, and "dance until the
violence stops." Ensler also discusses the first anniversary of the
"City of Joy," a groundbreaking new community for women survivors of
gender violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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