Public Movements for Justice and Peace

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Public Movementsfor Justice and Peace

• a short overview from 1960s
• to our days

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The early 60s situation

• About 15 years of Cold War --
• First nuclear arms race in history --
• Cuban Missile Crisis (Caribbean Crisis )
• Vietnam War had lasted for 5 years
• Terrible situation for Black people and women

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The beginning
Movement for Equal Rights and Against Racial
Prejudices

• Martin Luther King, Jr. philosophy of
  non-violence
• In 1.2.1960 four of black guys began sitting
  strike in front of the café where they were
  refused to be served because of racial reasons.
• Tens, hundreds, thousands of people joined them
  all over the country
• In 5.12.1960 US Supreme Court prohibited racial
  segregation in public places
• Movement rose. Demonstrations. Arrests. Protests.
  Murder of Malcolm X.

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Hippy

• Who were they and where did they come from?
• The beginning around 1965 when the
  baby-boomers grew up.
• New generation wanted to get rid of old, archaic,
  nobodys needed puritanical norms of behavior.
• Ideology
• For Love, Peace and Freedom, Tolerance and
  Equality.
• Against Prohibitions and Restrictions,
  Xenophobia and all kinds of intolerance, existing
  establishment and its inhuman politics

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Sexual Revolution

• Previous 30 years period is very puritanical and
  conformist and contradicted natural human sexual
  behaviors
• the development of the birth control pill in 1960
  gave women access to easy and reliable
  contraception
• Growing Hippy movement and its free-love approach
  
• main change was not that people had more sex or
  different types of sex, it was simply that they
  talked about it more openly than previous
  generations had done.

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Activism

• Protests against nuclear weapons (sit-ins, demos,
  marches)
• Anti Vietnam War protests all over the county
• Common action with Black communities for equal
  rights
• Free Press
• First Ecological Protests (antinuclear and
  cause oil flew out)

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Political hippies Yippy!

• Abbey Hoffman yippy founder
• His fun-fake-actions
• LSD in drinking water
• Piggy - candidate
• Drug-sex-spray press-conference
• Flying Pentagon

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1968 Democratic Convention

• Peaceful Antiwar
• Demonstration was planned
• During 8 days and nights
• there were street fights
• between 10 000 of antiwar
• activist and 12 000 of police-
• men, FBI and CIA agents,
• Soldiers and National guards.
• All World is Watching!
• Then in few month Court over Chicago Eight.
• Existing authorities lost their power

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Legacy

• It was successful cultural revolution
• New fashion, Pop Art and Rock-music
• It changed attitudes towards black people, women,
  queers and other minorities.
• It was one of main reasons of ending Vietnam War
• It gave new understanding of what Peace is
• It showed connections between Earth and every
  person on it.

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What happenedin the next 20 years?
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Late 80s Early 90s

• 1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall The end of
  revolutions.
• Situation in Eastern Europe USSR fell apart

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Why these? Whats wrong about them?

• IMF and WB
• WTO
• IOM
• G8
• Transnational corporations
• Wars
• Economical Globilization, Neoliberalism and
  global capitalism

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Alterglobalists protestactions
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Seattle 1999 - WTO
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Prague 2000 WB/IMF
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Genoa 2001 / G8 summit
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Some more about Alterglobalists mobilization

• November 30, 1999 Seattle, WTO Third
  Ministerial conference
• April 16, 2000 Washington, DC, IMF
• May 1, 2000 Global, May Day protests
• July 29, 2000 Philadelphia, Republican National
  Convention
• August 11, 2000 Los Angeles, USA, Democratic
  National Convention
• September 11, 2000 Melbourne, World Economic
  Forum
• September 26, 2000 Prague, Czech Republic,
  World Bank/IMF
• November 20, 2000 Montreal, Quebec, G20 meeting
  
• January 20, 2001 Washington, DC, Bush
  inauguration
• January 27, 2001 Davos, Switzerland, World
  Economic Forum
• April 20, 2001 Quebec City, Canada, Summit of
  the Americas (FTAA)
• June 15, 2001 Gothenburg, Sweden EU Summit
• July 20, 2001 Genoa, Italy G8 Summit
• September 29, 2001 Washington, DC,
  Anti-capitalist anti-war protests
• February 1, 2002 New York City, USA / Porto
  Alegre, Brazil World Economic Forum / World
  Social Forum
• March 15, 2002 Barcelona, Spain EU Summit
• April 20, 2002 Washington, DC (War on
  Terrorism)
• November 4 to November 10 Florence, Italy,
  First European Social Forum
• June 26, 2002 Calgary, Alberta, and Ottawa,
  Ontario, G8 summit at Kananaskis, Alberta J26 G8
  Protests

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