V-Day Annual Report 2017 - RISE FOR WOMEN WORKERS 1 | Page 65

USA
In the United States, activists and
allies from the Austin community
gathered at the Texas State Capital
to RISE in solidarity. Activists with
the nonprofit Unchained At Last
hosted a “Chain-in” on 14 February
in the New York Statehouse to
protest child marriage and forced
marriage in New York and across
the US wearing bridal gowns and
veils, with their arms chained and
mouths taped, to send a powerful
message to legislators. In Santa Fe
and Miami activists rose against the
exploitation of Human Trafficking.
In NYC’s Washington Square Park,
artists and activists rallied and rose
to make Valentine’s Day a day for
revolutionary love and resistance
at an Artistic Uprising – A Call for
Revolutionary Love.