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Public Movements for J ustice and Peace

Public Movements for J ustice and Peace. a short overview from 1960s to our days. 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

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Public Movements for J ustice and Peace

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  1. PublicMovementsfor JusticeandPeace a short overview from 1960s to our days

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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, nobody’s 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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)

  7. Political hippies – Yippy! Abbey Hoffman – yippy founder His fun-fake-actions: • LSD in drinking water • Piggy - candidate • Drug-sex-spray press-conference • Flying Pentagon

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. What happenedin the next 20 years?

  11. Late 80s – Early 90s • 1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall – The end of revolutions. • Situation in Eastern Europe – USSR fell apart

  12. Why these? What’s wrong about them? • IMF and WB • WTO • IOM • G8 • Transnational corporations • Wars • Economical Globilization, Neoliberalism and global capitalism

  13. Alterglobalists’ protestactions

  14. Seattle 1999 - WTO

  15. Prague 2000 –WB/IMF

  16. Genoa 2001 / G8 summit

  17. 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 • September 27, 2002 – Washington, DC, IMF/World Bank • weekend of February 15, 2003, March, April – Global protests against war on Iraq about 12 million antiwar protesters • July 28, 2003 – Montreal, Quebec • September 14, 2003 – Cancún, Mexico – Fifth Ministerial of the WTO collapses [19] • October, 2003 – regional WEF meeting in Dublin, European Competitiveness Summit, cancelled [20] • November 20, 2003 – Miami Mobilization against the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA • July 2 to July 8, 2005 – Edinburgh, Glasgow and Gleneagles, Scotland Protests against the G8 Summit What’s gonna be then?

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