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One Billion Rising event planned for Valentine’s Day

On Feb. 14 at The Center for the Arts and downtown Grass Valley, the Nevada County Coalition of One Billion Rising 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. One Billion Rising began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that one in three 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 …

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