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(WNN) New York, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Breaking the barrier between just viewing a film and actually creating humanitarian action surrounding human rights issues for girls, CNN FILMS has launched a new on-air platform to live stream the new film Girl Rising in hopes that global change for the world of girls and women can come as quickly as possible in a revolution that can ignite one community and one house at a time.
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A girl is not defined by what society sees. A girl is defined by what a girl sees inside herself, echoes the 10X10 mission, which is co-sponsored by Intel, The Documentary Group, and Vulcan Productions along with the work of CNN Films.
Chronicling the stories of girls around the globe who, given a fair chance to further their education and their life, will do so, the hope is that this documentary film can reach the widest audience possible. Working with NGOs Non-Governmental agencies like World Vision, UNICEF, A New Day Cambodia and numerous others, Girl Rising shows how girls can make lasting changes in their personal life, local communities and beyond. Girl Rising also has a star-studded U.S. Hollywood cast of narrators for the feature-length documentary, including award-winning actor-narrators Salma Hayek, Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, among others.
If to see it is to know it, this film delivers hope; reasonable, measurable, tangible hope that the world can be healed and helped to a better future, said Meryl Streep after the premiere release of the film was made last March.
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2013/06/17/cnn-live-streams-girl-rising/
Stand up for Women's Equality
Women, oh yes we are.
We are proud and strong and fearless.
We have been humiliated and hurt, sometimes grievously. We have been beaten both physically and verbally. Our rights over our bodies are being taken away from us. We have been told our voice does not matter, that our voice is shrill and hurts some sensitive ears. Aaaah, such sensitive ears, so sorry that the truth hurts.
Yet in the end, we rise. We will not be beaten. We are gaining strength and our fathers our brothers our sons and our friends have our backs. The color of ones skin does not matter here, it is for every woman that we stand for. We have each others backs.
What matters is that we all stand together, we all rise together. If one group is denied equality then every single one of us will lose our integrity and our humanity.
Let's Break that Chain! All of us it is time to stand up and be heard. We have your back and you have ours!
Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623#sthash.rzSjIksx.dpuf
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)I will not sit down!
I will not shut up!
I will not be silent!
A couple of people are finding that out today.
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Good news rules! Our voice!
And~
"We are mothers, we are teachers, we are beautiful beautiful creatures" God I love that vid! Not the first time I posted it~ Can't get enough of it.
We are all beautiful creatures~ They can't take that away from anyone of us. Not ever!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i have been enjoying my start to the weekend.
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Slow on the uptake.... you meant me?
Power!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)daschess1987
(192 posts)K & R
MerryBlooms
(11,771 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)That is an awesome K&R DeSwiss!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Ever.
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Thank You!
Cha
(297,686 posts)One collective voice for Women.
Our collective voices, as one for every single person that is being denied their rights, their dignity and their humanity. It's about all of us!
Cha
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)and so are Men (well, lots of them too!)
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Yet the numbers are growing in our favor.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)TBF
(32,096 posts)poems. Excellent OP! K&R
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)This OP means a lot to me.
BainsBane
(53,072 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Kath1
(4,309 posts)We will not sit down. We will not shut up. AND WE WILL VOTE!
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Thank you.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Thank you!
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)CFLDem
(2,083 posts)Thank you for this!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)There are lots of men standing behind you!
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)and danced as she spoke. i LOVED that speech and listened to it often.
this is too awesome. and i hope all women get to a point when they know and realize just how awesome these words are. cause that means, they too went to blossom. and the pure freedom in that.
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)I love that quote, sadly it's not visible in my sig line.
The pure freedom for women that are unafraid to blossom!
Beautiful in the richness of its color, passion and strength.
As for XGovv Granholm, yup. I was out of my seat too, damn she was and is an amazing woman!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)I just got home from work!
The womens are in the top five of the home page!
calimary
(81,498 posts)Seeing them enlarged - BEEE-YOOOO-TEEEE-FULL!!!!! I know they're in your sig-line, but to see them enlarged - sigh
Just breath-taking! The rest of the photos are, as well, but THOSE are just STUNNING!!!
And thanks for the Maya Angelou! Goes directly into my quotes file.
SWEEEEET!!!!!!
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)I know they are not done justice in my sig-line. Yet I have to take them with me from post to post. They inspire me!
Thank you calimary!
as do you~ Together!!!!
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Yes we do.
UtahLib
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sheshe2
(83,918 posts)lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)Now THIS thread is an important statement for women!
sheshe2
(83,918 posts)Thank you lillypaddle.
treestar
(82,383 posts)sheshe2
(83,918 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)I had not seen that poem by Maya Angelou before now. Thank you.