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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style><span style>Hello: People can purchase $10 tickets to the <b>Feb 14 6pm Dance at Spice Dragon</b> by calling 1-800-838-3006 or<b> in person at Bagels Too or Bisques Beads and Beyond in Pittsfield</b>. Web purchase available also-more info below. Thank you very much.</span></span><br>
</p><p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style><br></span></b></p><p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEAS</span></b><b style><span style>E</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style>Contacts: </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style>Janis Broderick, Executive Director, The Elizabeth Freeman Center</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style>413-499-2425, <a href="mailto:broderick@elizabethfreemancenter.org">broderick@elizabethfreemancenter.org</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style>Kristen van Ginhoven, Artistic Director, WAM Theatre </span></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style>518-243-9627, <a href="mailto:kristen@wamtheatre.com">kristen@wamtheatre.com</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style>Nina Molin, MD, Ananda Health Center for Integrative Medicine</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right" class="MsoNormal"><span style><a href="mailto:nrmolin@gmail.com">nrmolin@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b>BERKSHIRE COUNTY JOINS
‘ONE BILLION RISING’ ON FEBRUARY 14, 2013 </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">On <b style>Thursday, February 14, 2013</b>, Berkshire County will join with
activists around the world for ONE BILLION RISING, the largest day of action in
the history of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against
women and girls. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Berkshire community organizers,
including Elizabeth Freeman Center, HAVEN:Human/Animal Violence Education
Network and WAM Theatre, are calling out to the entire Berkshire community to
join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, women and men across the world
as we strike, dance, and RISE, demanding an end at last to violence against
women. There will be countywide risings throughout the day and a ONE BILLION
RISING 10x10 Upstreet Dance Party at 6:00 pm Upstairs at Spice Dragon in
Pittsfield, MA.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">“When you watch the ONE BILLION
RISING video, in three short minutes you see the painful, common acts of
violence women experience all over the world, and then you are swept with the
passion and determination of women rising to act against it, even within the
face of it. Think about it, one in three women in this world are
beaten and raped, and our community is not immune”, says organizer Nina Molin,
MD. “It has to stop and we all must participate.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">People are encouraged to Rise Up in Western MA. To see a
current list of events go to: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/WesternMaRising/events">http://www.facebook.com/WesternMaRising/events</a>
and click on Western MA Rising @ Berkshires or go to <a href="http://onebillionrising.org">onebillionrising.org</a> and
click on ‘find a rising near you’. To add a new event to Berkshire County
Risings email <a href="mailto:kristen@wamtheatre.com">kristen@wamtheatre.com</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ONE BILLION RISING began as a call to action based on the
staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped
during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to
more than one billion women and girls. One billion women violated is an atrocity.
One billion women dancing is a revolution. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information go to <a href="http://onebillionrising.org">onebillionrising.org</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>Fact Sheet for the 6pm
ONE BILLION RISING 10x10 Upstreet Dance Party</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>DATE:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, February 14, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>TIME:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6pm</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>LOCATION:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Upstairs @ Spice Dragon, 297 North Street, Pittsfield, MA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>COST:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$10</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>HOW TO GET TICKETS
FOR THE 6pm DANCE:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>In Person:</b> Bagels
Too or Bisques, Beads and Beyond</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bagels Too, 166 North St Pittsfield, MA 01201</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bisques, Beads and Beyond, 141 North St Pittsfield,
MA 01201</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>Phone:</b>
1-800-838-3006</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>Web</b>:<b style> </b><a href="http://onebillionrising10x10upstreetdanceparty.bpt.me">http://onebillionrising10x10upstreetdanceparty.bpt.me</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dance Ticket price includes light fare, DJ Fern and other
RISING related offerings. Cash bar. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is one of the launch events for the 10x10 Upstreet Art
Festival running in Pittsfield, February 14-24.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style>ONE BILLION RISING
10x10 Upstreet Dance Party SPONSORS:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ananda Health Center for Integrative Medicine, Blue Q, Cain
Hibbard & Myers, Canyon Ranch, Elizabeth Freeman Center, The Gateways Inn, Gotterer
Dental, HAVEN: Human/Animal Violence Education Network, Lisa Kantor, Seven
Hills Inn and WAM Theatre. To become a sponsor for this event, contact Nina
Molin at <span style><a href="mailto:nrmolin@gmail.com">nrmolin@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About One Billion Rising<br>
</b><span style>One in three women on the planet is
raped or beaten in her lifetime. That is ONE BILLION WOMEN violated. One
billion daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, lovers and friends. On 14th
February 2013, V-Day's 15th Anniversary, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and
those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this
violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men to
dance across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective
strength, our numbers and our solidarity across borders. Join V-Day and ONE
BILLION RISING today and SAY NO to violence against women and girls. To sign up
and learn more, visit </span><a href="http://www.onebillionrising.org/" title="www.onebillionrising.org"><span style>www.onebillionrising.org</span></a><span style></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About V-Day<br>
</b><span style>V-Day is a global activist movement
to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through
benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler's award winning play <i>The
Vagina Monologues </i>and other artistic works. In 2012, volunteer activists
ran over 5,800 V-Day benefit events in the U.S. and around the world, educating
millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To
date, the V-Day movement has raised over $90 million and educated millions,
crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, reopened shelters,
and funded over 14,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses
in Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.
Over 300 million people have seen a V-Day benefit event in their community.
V-Day has received numerous acknowledgements including Worth Magazine's 100
Best Charities, Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities, one of the Top-Rated
organizations on Philanthropedia/Guidestar and Great Nonprofits. V-Day's newest
campaign is ONE BILLION RISING which will culminate on February 14, 2013 with a
global action worldwide. </span><a href="http://www.vday.org/" title="www.vday.org"><span style>www.vday.org</span></a><span style></span></p>
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