Join in AHMEDABAD RISING on February 14th 2013

From: Natarani

To: sjprashant@gmail.com

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 1:23 AM

Subject: AHMEDABAD RISING

Dear Fr. Cedric Prakash,

On the 14^th of February 2013, people across the world, in 184 countries, are going to raise their voices by rising and dancing to say ENOUGH to violence against women. The project is called OBR – One Billion Rising. Recent events in India and the continuing rise and horrifying violence in crimes against women have shown us that all of us have to actively campaign against, and intervene to stop these crimes. We can no longer silently disapprove. We need to shout against it, guard against it., together.

 And now this opportunity has appeared in the form of OBR. We want 20,000 Ahmedabadis to dance the garba and ras together on February 14^th, to songs specially created to highlight these issues, and to pledge together to fight and report any form of violence against women that they see or encounter, and that they will not indulge in it. Why garba and ras? This is Gujarat. This is a state that spends nine nights dancing. And the call is to dance against violence. So, what better than garba or ras? This is also a state which has many villages and communities without girls, a state where hundreds of young girls and girl children are abducted and never found, where women burn because of dowries, where rape and molestation is on the rapid rise.

 We all need to come together on this, put aside our differences and commercial interests, our competition and personal interest and join hands to raise a loud and clear voice.  We shall find a gathering place. We will ask artists to write and create the songs for us. And together we will dance – for all the girls not allowed to be born, for our sisters and mothers with acid on their faces, burns on their bodies, and bruises on their souls. It doesn’t matter if you can dance or not. This isn’t about skills. It is about heart and raising a voice against genocide.

 We invite you and all your colleagues to take part and join with us. All we need is two hours of yours on the 14^th and a change of conscience. If you wish, we can come and explain this to all your colleagues. Or you can talk to all of them. We must have the numbers to raise our voices.

LET’S ALL JOIN HANDS ON THE 14^TH OF FEBRUARY 2013 AT THE SPORTS GROUND OF GUJARAT VIDYAPITH BETWEEN 05.00 PM AND 07.00 PM

In anticipation,

Mallika Sarabhai

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 visit : www.onebillionrising.org

and   www.ahmedabadrising.org

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