Carlo Giuliani Carlo Giuliani (14 March 1978 – 20 July 2001) was an Italian anti-globalist who was shot dead by a police officer during the demonstrations against the Group of Eight summit that was held in Genoa from July 19 to July 21, 2001. Ahmed Basiony Ahmed Basiony (1978 – 28 January 2011) died during the Arab Revolution in Cairo. Born in Ismailia-Egypt on October 1978 and was killed due to gun wounds inflicted by snipers of the Egyptian Police Forces in Tahrir Square on the 28th of January during the start of the 25th of January 2011 revolution. He was a sound, visual artist and musician, teacher assistant at the Faculty of Art Education, Paint- ing and Drawing Department, Helwan University, a true believer in the Egyptian uprising, the father of two. He was also one of the most important artists of the new generation of young contemporary Egyptian artists. Anna Mae Aquash Anna Mae Aquash (March 27, 1945 - mid-December 1975) was a Mi’kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became the highest-ranking woman in the Ameri- can Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States during the mid-1970s. Aquash participated in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and occupation of the Depart- ment of Interior headquarters in Washington, DC; the Wounded Knee Incident in 1973; and armed occupations in Canada and Wisconsin in following years. On February 24, 1976, her body was found on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mohamed Bouazizi Mohamed Bouazizi (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street ven- dor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. His act became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring, inciting demonstrations and riots throughout Tunisia in protest of social and political issues in the country. Rosa Cisneros Rosa Cisneros was a brilliant lawyer, well known for her work in defending human rights and advancing the status of women in El Salvador. As Executive Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation affiliate in El Salvador, Rosa pioneered health programs aimed at making family planning available to every couple. She was assassinated in front of her home. The Dissobedient / 1 / Sanja Iveković Salvador Puig Antich Salvador Puig Antich (May 30, 1948 – March 2, 1974) was a Spanish anarchist, born in Barcelona, and active during the 1960s. A member of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (MIL), he was executed by the Francoist regime after being tried by a military tribunal and found guilty of the death of a Guardia Civil police- man. His execution was very unpopular; the Catalan painter Antoni Tàpies made a series of lithographs called “Assassins” and displayed them in the Galerie Maeght in Paris, in honour of Puig Antich’s memory. Rachel Corrie Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American mem- ber of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) bulldozer when she was standing or kneel- ing in front of a local Palestinian’s home, thus acting as a human shield, at- tempting to prevent the IDF from demolishing the home. Che Guevara Ernesto “Che“ Guevara (June 14 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture. Moments before Guevara was executed he was asked by a Bolivian soldier if he was thinking about his own immortality. “No”, he replied, “I’m thinking about the immortality of the revolution.” Nabila Diahnine Nabila Diahnine (1960-1995) president of the feminist group Cry of Women, was assassinated in 1995 in Algeria’s northern Berber region. Her association as- sembled 300-400 members and organised in the villages meetings and debates on the condition of women. Diahnine was a known figure in Algeria and recog- nized for her works for women, her hostility to the Family Code and her intransi- gence against the Islamists. Steve Biko Steve Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. On the 18th of August, 1977, Biko was arrested at a po- lice roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers. He died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison, on 12 September. The Dissobedient / 2 / Sanja Iveković Ana Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russ- ian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin. On 7 October 2006 she was shot and killed in the lift of her block of flats, an unsolved assassination that continues to attract international attention. Meena Meena Keshwar Kamal, commonly known as Meena, (February 27, 1956 – Feb- ruary 4, 1987) was an Afghan feminist, women’s rights activist, who was assas- sinated in 1987 in Pakistan. In 1977, when she was a student at Kabul University, she founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), an organization formed to promote equality and education for women and strives to “give voice to the deprived and silenced women of Afghanistan”. Hrant Dink Hrant Dink (September 15, 1954 – January 19, 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Ar- menian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian mi- nority in Turkey. Dink was best known for advocating Turkish-Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey; he was often critical of both Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide, and of the Armenian diaspora’s campaign for its international recognition. Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istan- bul in January 2007, by Ogün Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. Noor Inayat Khan Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan GC (1 January 1914, Moscow – 13 September1944), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim ori- gin. She was a British Special Operations Executive agent during the Second World War, and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Resistance. In 1943 she was arrested in the SD Headquarters in Paris and excecuted in Dachau concentration camp. Her last word was “Lib- erté”. Raymundo Gleyzer Raymundo Gleyzer (September 25, 1941 - March 27, 1976) was a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Cine de la Base, a group dedicated to bringing revolutionary films to the people. In 1976, he was abducted and thrown into a con- centration camp by Argentina’s military dictatorship. He was one of 30,000 inno- cent people in these camps that were tortured and murdered. At great risk to his own safety, Gleyzer exposed corruption in the PRI – the party that governed The Dissobedient / 3 / Sanja Iveković Mexico for almost 70 years. In “Mexico - the Frozen Revolution” he connects the betrayal of the 1910 Mexico Revolution with the failed revolution of his own time. His films, all of them about the political and social situation in Latin America, re- veal his commitment to social reform in Latin America and especially in his home country Argentina – a commitment he gave his life for. Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1871, Zamość, Vistula Land, Russia – 15 January 1919, Berlin) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jew- ish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. In 1915, after the SPD sup- ported German involvement in World War I, she co-founded, with Karl Liebknecht, the anti-war Spartakusbund (Spartacist League). On 1 January 1919 the Spartacist League became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In November 1918, dur- ing the German Revolution she founded the Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. She regarded the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 in Berlin as a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge. When the revolt was crushed by the social democrat gov- ernment and the Freikorps (World War I veterans defending the Weimar Republic), Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters were captured and murdered. Luxemburg was drowned in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin. After their deaths, Lux- emburg and Karl Liebknecht became martyrs for Marxists. Fred Hampton Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was assassinated as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Giuseppe Pinelli Giuseppe “Pino” Pinelli (21 October 1928 – 15 December 1969) was an Italian rail- way worker and anarchist activist, who died in the custody of Italian police in 1969 after being arrested. Pinelli was a member of the Milan Circle “Ponte della Ghisolfa”. He was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. On 12th December 1969 a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 17 people and injured 88. Pinelli was picked up, along with other an- archists, for questioning regarding the attack.