Interviews/Speeches

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Eve Ensler, the Tony award-winning playwright of the “Vagina Monologues,” joins Melissa Harris-Perry along with Ashley Bryant, star of Ensler’s latest work “Emotional Creature.”

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We spend the rest of the hour with someone who has fought tirelessly for women’s rights here in the United States and around the world: Eve Ensler.

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Amidst a U.S. election campaign that has seen the issue of women’s rights at the forefront, the playwright and activist Eve Ensler is launching a global strike to end violence against women.

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We continue our conversation with award-winning playwright — and uterine cancer survivor — Eve Ensler. After getting news she has been cancer-free for two years, Ensler describes how her struggle to survive the disease “got rid of everything that didn’t matter,” and drove her to continue her work on the City of Joy, a safe haven for sexually abused women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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On Thursday, May 10, 2012, more than 1,200 guests gathered at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel to celebrate the 35th Annual Powerful Voice Awards. This year’s event honored Eve Ensler, Tony-Award wining playwright, performer, activist and founder of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

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As the debate over reproductive rights rages in the House, and Senate Republicans have tried to thwart the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, we speak with Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, the global movement to end domestic violence, and the playwright behind “The Vagina Monologues.”

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Eve Ensler fires up the room, telling us about the organic movement she initiated through the Vagina Monologues. How being outrageous and honest allowed V-Day to dream about ending violence against women and deliver ‘impossible’ goals.

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As part of the Southbank Centre’s Women Of The World Festival 2012, Eve Ensler provided a keynote speech addressing the situation women face in South Africa and the Congo and finishing with an special performance of one of her Vagina Monologues.