V-Day

Oakland area activists, don’t miss this!

Join filmmaker and meditation teacher Kirthi Nath for the Oakland premiere of PARAMITA, followed by a community workshop.

PARAMITA is a poetic documentary that follows Prajna Choudhury's 25-year coming out journey with her traditional Bangladeshi mother, exploring Buddhism, nature, and family relationships as pathways to acceptance and intergenerational healing.

The film has screened at more than 35 international film festivals. Following the screening, Kirthi Nath will lead a workshop incorporating meditation, reflection, community dialogue, and ritual practices.

Kirthi’s is a long time artistic partner with V-Day and One Billion rising. V-Day is proud to be a supporter of the film and community partner for this event.

DETAILS:
•DATE: Friday, June 12, 2026
•TIME: 6pm–8pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
•LOCATION: Oakland Asian Cultural Center

FREE (registration requested; seating is limited): https://oacc.cc/event/paramita

WE RISE TODAY, 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia Transphobia And Biphobia and join the Worldwide Celebration of Sexual and Gender Diversities!

"The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia was created in 2004 to draw attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by le***an, gay, bis*xual, trans, inters*x people, and all of those with diverse s*xual orientations, gender identities or expressions, and s*x characteristics. The date of May 17th was specifically chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s decision in 1990 to declassify homos*xuality as a mental disorder. The Day is not one single campaign. It is a moment when thousands of ideas and initiatives converge over a single vision: freedom and equality for all s*xual, gender and bodily minorities.

IDAHOBIT is currently marked in 155 countries and territories, including 35 where consensual same-s*x acts are still criminalised. The day has received official recognition from several States, international institutions including the European Parliament, and countless local authorities. Most United Nations agencies also mark the day with specific events.

This year's theme is 'At The Heart Of Democracy'. Join the global noise! Make your voice heard!" - May17org

For more on how you can contribute, visit: may17.org

We are witnessing the egregious effect of the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais in real time. Republican politicians in Tennessee, Louisiana, and other states are accelerating their attacks on voting rights to weaken Black political power.

This administration and racist politicians will not stop here.

We RISE with all protestors and organizers across the South, exercising their political power and fighting for their right to be heard. We stand with you and amplify your demands.

TAKE ACTION.
•SUPPORT grass-roots organizations on the ground
•STAY informed
•VOTE in your local elections and check your voter registration at Vote.gov

THANK YOU to everyone who came out for Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth on Earth Day (April 22), featuring the astounding Jane Fonda in the role of narrator.

The night was beyond our wildest dreams with incredible performances and an amazing audience whose energy permeated the Howard Gilman Opera House! Youth were center stage and youth activists' voices were amplified and present throughout the experience from the moment folks walked in the door.

Created as an artistic response to our climate emergency, Dear Everything centers youth leadership, intergenerational responsibility, and collective action. The work extends V's decades-long commitment to harnessing storytelling as a force for cultural and political transformation and marks the first artistic piece centering around climate from V-Day, long known for its vast survivor-led, grassroots, anti-violence work on college campuses and in communities.

In the face of a full-blown climate emergency, can we band together and intervene before it's too late? This is the question at the core of Dear Everything.

READ our full message of gratitude, and find all relevant links, at: vday.link/deareverythingatbam

📸: Astrid Stawiarz & Valerie Terranova / Getty Images for V-Day

Today is 5 May, the National Day of Action/Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives. Wear Red & RISE in solidarity. NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS.

"Today we wear red for our relatives. Red for visibility. Red for justice. Because Native women are not invisible — and their stories deserve to be told. MMIWR is a crisis that touches every Tribal community in this country. 95% of cases go uncovered by mainstream media. Homicide is roughly the third leading cause of death for Indigenous women ages 10-24. The data is staggering. The silence is not acceptable." - National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC)

About the National Week of Action for MMIWR: The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) is a result of government policies permitting forced removal, land seizures, and violence inflicted on Native peoples. Native communities struggle and continue to struggle with the highest rates of abduction and murder of women. The current spectrum of violence against Native women is not a 'new' issue. Murder is the third leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control. American Indian and Alaska Native women experience a murder rate 10 times higher than the national average. More than four in five American Indian and Alaska Native women (84.3%) have experienced violence in their lifetime. 56.1% have experienced s*xual violence, 55.5% have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner, and 48.8% have experienced stalking, according to the National Institute of Justice. 64% of trafficking survivors in Hawaii identified as being part Native Hawaiian, according to Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women reports.

Join us in saying enough is enough. Go to niwrc.org/mmiwr-awareness for more information.

We RISE on with our call for all women workers and essential workers on the frontlines to be seen, paid, protected, valued, heard, and treated with dignity.

In over 160 countries, 1 May is a holiday in honor of workers and the fight for labor rights. In the United States, workers, caregivers, artists, organizers, and communities across the country are taking action for a world where people come before profit as they rise in the streets nationwide to stop the billionaire agenda.

US ACTIVISTS, TAKE ACTION:
No School. No Work. No Shopping. JOIN a May Day action near you: maydaystrong.org

RISE.

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, s*xual, holy, disruptive, and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at any time, with anyone and everyone, and it’s free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it’s at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

Today is International Dance Day. To Rising activists everywhere, we see you, we love you. Here’s to dancing anywhere.

Share a pic of you/your community Dancing/Rising and tag us.