NOW ! (1965) NOW ! (2012) The short documentary of Santiago Alvarez on the struggle for civil rights of black people in the Today the rate of pictures on which you can see the ultima ratio of governmental power is increasing US is a document of a revolutionary movement, which began with one specific desire: equality once again. For this reason the remake shows nearly equal pictures of the latest liberation movements of human beings. It grew, inspirated people and finally took over. It was an essential initiating and inhumanity worldwide. It is trying to translate the original message into current time. Where are the part of the 68 revolt. similarities, where are the differences? Are we in a revolutionary situation today? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E432cI5V3c&feature=related http://www.vimeo.com/37220310 uploaded by Tasutpen, July 07, 2006 uploaded by nsw, February 23, 2012 Civil Rights Movement Bucharest, Romania The civil rights movement of the Afro Americans January 20, 2012 in the US was a political movement for equality and against their discrimination. This movement Protests at ‚Piata Universitatii‘ peaked out between approximately 1950 and Romanians are protesting for freedom and demo- 1980 and ended with the assassination of its main cracy. Demonstrations against the government‘s leader Martin Luther King jr. After his death the austerity program and Romanian President Traian situation for the black people improved slowly. Basescu take place all over Romania. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObaQIcY78I, for more information see also: uploaded by radooadriana http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeli ne1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_move- ment http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/ links.html http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/ civilrights-55-65/index.html http://www.crmvet.org/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/ aopart9.html http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ american-history/1900/civil-rights U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) Protests in Kairo are going on talks with civil rights leaders in his White February 07, 2011 House office in Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 1964. The black leaders, from left, are, Roy Wil- Vice president Omar Suleiman (right) and deputies kins, executive secretary of the National Asso- of the opposition are debating on most recent pro- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People mises of Mubarak; the Mulim Brotherhood is also (NAACP); James Farmer, national director of attending the Committee on Racial Equality; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-f2-3oS0iE Leadership Conference; and Whitney Young, uploaded by euronewsde executive director of the Urban League. photo: AP/ Beaumont Julian Paul Assange born 1971, is an Australian journalist, writer, com- puter programmer and political/internet activist. He is the editor in chief and founder of WikiLeaks, a media website which publishes information from whistleblowers. The site acts as a conduit for world- wide news leaks, with a stated purpose of creating open governance. http://redwhitebluenews.com/wp-content/uploads/ 101105-julian-assange-vert.grid-4x2.jpg posted by ThePundit, Nov 30, 2010 Lena Horne (1) Lena Horne (2) Legendary singer/actor Lena Horne has fought Later in life, Horne acquired renewed fame after against racism in the entertainment industry appearing in the film The Wiz (1978) and touring in throughout her career and against racial discri- a one-woman show in the 1980s. mination in this country throughout her life. She entered show business at the age of sixteen, and http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/ in 1942, became the first African American per- Lena_Horne.htm former to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Horne never had a leading role in her early films due to racism. While entertaining troops at Fort Reilly, Kansas during World War II, Horne filed a complaint with the NAACP because African American soldiers in the audience had to sit in back seats behind German POWs. During the anti-communist hearings in the Bradley E. Manning: Leaking Military Secrets to U.S. Congress in the 1950s, Horne was among the Public: Bradley Manning, American Hero hundreds of entertainers blacklisted because of Born 1987, Manning is a United States Army soldier political views and social activism. who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed restricted material to the website WikiLeaks. The court hearings are still in process, probably he will be jailed multiple life sentences. http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/38681-lea- king-military-sec= „NO MORE POLICE BRUTALITY“ Whose flag is it? An enraged law enforcement officer wrestles an American flag out of the hands of a 5 year-old boy. Egypt Feb. 1, 2011 Just outside Tahrir, or Liberation, Square in Cairo, more than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo, filling the city‘s main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. Youthful zeal -Young children climbed up on a tank to show the friendly nature of the protest http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352132/ http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgms.htm Egypt-protests-Hosni-Mubarak-stand-election.html Jackson, MS. by Daily Mail Reporter Egypt Feb. 1, 2011 A soldier holds a crying girl from his armored ve- hicle http://newshopper.sulekha.com/mideast-egypt_ photo_1690353.htm photo: AP Photo/Victoria Hazou An Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Tens of thousands of anti- government protesters poured into the streets of see entire magazine: Egypt Friday, stoning and confronting police who http://books.google.ba/books?id=00sEAAAAMB fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas in the AJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_ most violent and chaotic scenes yet in the challen- summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ge to President Hosni Mubarak‘s 30-year rule. http://derstandard.at/1295571107030/Auf-den- Strassen-von-Kairo-und-Suez, photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP/dapd LIFE Magazin - June 28, 1963 : Medgar Evers‘s widow and son Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights acti- A woman waves an Egyptian flag while another vist from Mississippi involved in efforts to over- carries a child during the demonstration in Tahrir turn segregation at the University of Mississippi. Square, Cairo, Egypt. Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beck- with, a member of the White Citizens‘ Council. http://www.educationandtransition.org/resources/ His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil the-role-of-education-in-empowering-young-peo- ple-to-shape-their-future/ rights protests, as well as numerous works of art, music, and film. @UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0226 Roger LeMoyne “State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement.” Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks. 2011 http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/ features/mississippi/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers Close up of a black person‘s face Occupy Wall Street Animation: The head of Abraham Lincoln flys out This protest movement that began September of his pupils. 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City‘s Wall Street financial district. The protests are against social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. http://www.madmoizelle.com/occupy-wall-street- 66257, source image : adbusters.com & newworldnews.com Lincoln Statue Lincoln Statue On October 16, 1854, in his „Peoria Speech“, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial Lincoln declared his opposition to slavery, which photo uploaded by Raul654 he repeated en route to the presidency. Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/4719193 Occupy Wall Street: Protesters, Police Clash To effect change OWS uses „direct action“ instead of petitioning authorities.Their slogan, We are the 99%, addresses the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. OWS was initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters and has led to Occupy protests and mo- vements around the world. A female demonstrator is hit with a baton by an Oakland police officer after a fellow protester was arrested during an Occupy Oakland protest on Oct. 25. http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2011-10-28/ Police brutality occupy-wall-street-protesters-police-clash.html above, entire picture: http://there.is.hope-for.us/ photo: Chavez/Oakland Tribune/MCT/ ?cat=26 ZUMAPRESS.com Citizen running in the streets Teheran/Iran: Second revolution or Civil war? The nation goes into the streets and fights. Sunday, 14. June, in front of the University: Armed troops of the police are chasing protesters with batons. http://www.deutschlandwoche.de/tag/mousavi/ photo: AP Police brutality Occupy Melbourne October 14, 2011 http://oilsoda.com/2011/10/14/pics-represent-the- day-oct-14/ posted by Chris Ceo Occupy Wall Street: police evict protesters in New York and other US cities Police wearing helmets and carrying shields moved Police brutality to evict protesters with the Occupy Wall Street mo- vement from the park in New York City‘s financial district where they have camped since September. Authorities declared that the continued occupation