On Valentine's Day, Global Calls for a "Moral Resistance Rooted In Love"

Seizing upon the energy of Valentine’s Day, people around the world are demonstrating for justice on Tuesday, whether by participating in protests, participating in democracy, or both.

Tweets about #RevolutionaryLove OR #WomensMarch OR #1BillionRising OR #LoveArmy

Organizers and supporters of the Day of Revolutionary Love, Day of Rising—who include leaders from last month’s Women’s March, Rev. William Barber of the Moral Mondays movement, and One Billion Rising, a campaign to end violence against women—say their aim is “to reclaim love as a public ethic and a way to fight for justice.”

And while the effort is global, they place a particular emphasis on the United States, where President Donald Trump

“We declare our revolutionary love for all who are in harm’s way,” said Eve Ensler, playwright of the Vagina Monologues, activist, and founder of One Billion Rising and V-Day. “We join forces and stand together with the millions of people across the planet who are rising to end violence against and girls and resist racist patriarchy. Smack in the middle of the word emergency is the word emerge. We are rising, we are dancing, we are listening and protecting, knowing revolutionary love will provide the energy and prophetic vision for the emergence of a new paradigm.”

Participants are invited to express their #RevolutionaryLove in three ways:

1. and urging lawmakers to “join millions of us who are committed to moral resistance throughout this administration;”
2. to help end violence against women and girls; and/or
3. “to others, to your opponents, or to yourself.”