andrey's presentation about movements from peace and development seminar
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Public Movementsfor Justice 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 Terrible situation for Black people and
women
The beginning
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.
Movement for Equal Rights and Against Racial Prejudices
HippyWho 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.
IdeologyFor: Love, Peace and Freedom, Tolerance and Equality.Against: Prohibitions and Restrictions, Xenophobia and
all kinds of intolerance, existing establishment and its inhuman politics
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.
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)
Political hippies – Yippy!
Abbey Hoffman – yippy founder
His fun-fake-actions:
- LSD in drinking water
- Piggy - candidate
- Drug-sex-spray press-conference
- Flying Pentagon
1968 Democratic Convention Peaceful AntiwarDemonstration was planned During 8 days and nightsthere were street fightsbetween 10 000 of antiwaractivist 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
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.
What happenedin the next 20
years?
Late 80s – Early 90s
1989 - The fall of the Berlin Wall – The end of revolutions.
Situation in Eastern Europe – USSR fell apart
Why these? What’s wrong about them? IMF and WB WTO IOM G8 Transnational
corporations Wars Economical Globilization,
Neoliberalism and global capitalism
Alterglobalists’ protestactions
Seattle 1999 - WTO
Prague 2000 –WB/IMF
Genoa 2001 / G8 summit
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?