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GRITtv: City Of Joy is What Investing In Life Looks Like
This weekend saw something revolutionary -- not just in Egypt, but in Congo. The V-Day foundation, led by playwright and GRITtv guest Eve Ensler, opened its first City of Joy, a compound that will help Congolese women, many of them rape survivors, heal and learn, as V-Day puts it, to "turn their pain to power." The compound cost around $1 million, and hopes to graduate 180 women per year. Ensler told the New York Times, "You build an army of women," and they take power for themselves. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this page"Democracy Now!": Fri. Feb. 26 2010
As the healthcare summit ends in deadlock, single-payer advocates remain excluded. We speak to Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor Trudy Lieberman and pediatrician Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program about it. V-Day founder Eve Ensler talks about her new book, “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”; and as Obama pushes “clean coal,” Jeff Biggers tracks the history of destructive mining in “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland”. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
GRITtv: Can We Turn Pain to Power in the Congo?
It's a heartwrenching story: more than five million dead, and rape is used to terrorize the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where spillover from the Rwandan conflict has led to the ongoing violence of daily life despite an official ceasefire. And minerals like coltan, used in your laptop or cell phone as well as aerospace technologies, are funding the violence. We all use cell phones and computers, but what can we do to stop supporting the horrific abuse of women and children in the Congo? Joining to discuss this are Eve Ensler, Rose Mapendo, and Kambale Musavuli, and they debate the "climate of impunity" under which rape is normalized, and the responsibility the rest of the world has to help the women in the Congo help themselves. For more information, check out Congo Week's Take Action page.
