by Angry Mouse, SheKos editor
This Sunday is Valentine's Day. But it's not just an opportunity to buy cheap candy, overpriced roses, and trashy lingerie. It's also V-Day.
Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, and screenings of V-Day's documentary Until The Violence Stops, to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities.
The V-Day movement was started in 1998 and has raised more than $70 million dollars to help women around the world by opening shelters, mobilizing opposition to bad policies and practices, and raising awareness of the conditions women face across the globe.