Resistance is not a politics but a culture.
Resistance shouldn't be against something,
but it should create something on its own.
Whatever form despair takes, it must be active.
Perhaps it can be a catalyst for activity.
We, the children of this diverse country, would like
both foreigners and Afghanis to work for national unity, which is peace.
We want peace!
We can't bring peace with guns and tanks.
We have seen throughout history that sometimes a film,
an interview, a song has taken a country onto a different path.
So we will always come together on the 21st of September
to say that we want a better world, a world in peace.
Peace as harmony,
peace where waters will run their courses.
It is a resistance journey in all its forms: Violent or non-violent.
Peace comes when resistance is successful.
We have to be careful not to replace the word "resistance" with"peace."
We should know that peace
is the end of the road.
Resistance against this dam project
has gone on for 20 years.
We are gathered here to defend our waters, as a fundamental right.
This energy will power the big aluminum companies
and other mining companies
who will loot our wealth and resources.
Due to the grief and anxiety that the indigenous people are suffering
I don't think this story will end well.
There will be a lot of conflict.
Why did we choose Belo Monte?
A dam needs height and lots of water.
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1000
Stop Belo Monte dam, or we will stop Brazil!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1000
Stop Belo Monte dam, or we will stop Brazil!
That was the Kayapó war cry.
Nobody should underestimate the indignation that they're feeling.
I think the federal government should see this as a message
that much more blood could be spilled in the Xingu River Valley
if they continue to pursue the project in this way.
We came from far away and we are here.
When the Kayapó want to do something they do it out in the open
not behind people's backs, like the government.
My tribe and I are not going to accept this.
Music is the weapon.
Music is the thing of the future.
Look at this water we are drinking.
Everyday children are dying.
Measles...
I can't count, uncountable sicknesses
because of through this water we are drinking.
But we are a host community to so many oil companies!
There is no food because we have killed their fish.
We have destroyed their farmland.
Where is our farming? And where is our fishing?
Now where is the alternative to the fishing and farming
that we have destroyed?
You are not providing that.
The children growing up in this type of environment
will become deadly
and will become dangerous.
We have tried so many things in Nigeria
like non-violent groups for peace and all the rest
at confronting the government.
But at the end of the day, you see that it yields nothing.
So we believe that the only language the Nigerian state understands
is only the trigger play, the violent play.
That is where the government will attend to you very fast.
We blow up stations because
we believe that is the source of our problem.
Because of the multinationals
the oil is the only problem we have in this country.
So it's high time we put a stop to it.
We who got oil, we suffer.
See the poverty, our mothers in the village
they got no house, nowhere to live.
Because of all those things
march first and carry a gun.
Don't look back.
It all started in a non-violent, peaceful way of protest.
Our late friend Ken Saro-Wiwa was making a peaceful protest.
We don't want to be hung like Ken Saro-Wiwa
and be poured with acid after hanging.
Because this man was using only pamphlets, you kill him?
We are now coming with-
with guns!
The freedom fighters are there
but they have other elements side by side with them.
The unfortunate thing is that the government
tries to give the impression that mostly
they're dealing with the criminals and the gangsters.
And the Western press takes their cue from there.
But the militants
the really committed political elements
exist and have a valid point of view.
They have a good case.
The oil companies have to reckon with them.
At least they're being listened to now
which wouldn't be the case if they were merely
marching in the street to demonstrate
with placards and so on.
They're fighting
to impose
a solution to their problems.
When one speaks of genocide, one talks of Rwanda or Darfur.
One never speaks of the Congo.
What really discourages you is to see a patient you treated in 2000
come back in 2005 with a rape wound
even worse than the one she had in 2000.
That is terribly discouraging.
But what gives courage is the capacity of these women to fight.
Using women as weapons of war is a method of demoralization.
Women are the producers of the nation.
It's women who produce, feed the children, care for their husbands.
And when they rape these women
they are in fact killing the entire rural population.
Just do something.
Even if it's once a month.
Even if it's once a year.
I use a lot of my networking
to create awareness about what is happening in Congo
through photo shoots
through interviews...
I decided that my focus would be education
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...
We want to help even more children
because they are going to go back
and they are going to help others.
Oh, freedom, oh
Liberians cry for equal rights
Liberia, stop abusing women's rights
Women's rights, women's rights, are human rights.
I like the organization
it changed all the people
from doing bad things.
Now I regret what I did to my citizens.
But at the time
when you're taking drugs, you get big attitude to fight.
I saw them
stabbing people with knives
cutting off people's ears
opening the stomach of pregnant women.
My father was slaughtered right in my presence.
My sister was even raped in my presence.
I never raped.
But I used to catch a girl and carry her to my commander
to do raping activity.
I killed five babies' mothers.
I juked one big belly.
I took the baby from out of her stomach.
I wanted to see if it was a boy or a girl.
During the war I fight
and I kill all the people.
I was in this group of civilians, moving.
You can see there's a man there; he has a gun.
There's another one, and another one there.
They started shooting at this car.
They just shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
You know, on the floor, people lying down, blood.
It was so sad to see that.
Everyone passed quietly, nobody talked.
No one talked, we just passed.
I kept all those images in my mind.
From the onset of the drawings, I was actually doing them
as a form of documenting
what was taking place around me as an artist.
Because I felt it was my obligation to have a recorded account,
artistically - even though it was dangerous to do so.
We as artists,
we try to encourage the people.
We show it in our work.
We sing it
we write about it
and people are picking it up.
In Liberia comics play a very important role
in transforming the lives of the people.
Welcome to the first grade class.
I want to go to school and become president of the whole country.
A minister
a doctor
I'd like to be the president.
I want to be the president.
Hate speech radio broadcast, 1994
These people are a dirty race!
We have to exterminate them.
We must get rid of them.
This is the only solution.
You know that in this country
tragic events happened in 1994.
One million people were murdered in a hundred days.
They came with machetes, spears, shouting and looting homes.
They were after the ethnic Tutsi.
- I'm sick doctor! - What's wrong?
- The Tutsis, the Tutsis!
So much was negative during the genocide, but people also showed humanity.
There were people who dared, during the genocide
to hide their neighbors
despite the threat to their lives, because they could have died.
She took me into the house and suggested that I hide up in the roof.
She put me there.
H'e looked hungry and sick.
I took him in and instructed him to hide in the attic.
When the war, the genocide started
I was 9 years old. I was in 3rd grade.
Of course I was afraid.
I had to be brave
because the attackers would come and ask, "Is there anyone in the house?"
And I would say, "No, there is nobody."
H'e warned me that if I acted nervous they would kill me and my children.
I came out after three months
together with this brave woman.
We really need to prevent genocide from happening again
and address its staggering aftermath so we rebuild this world.
My advice to people is to have love
to let love come back among us
so that war never returns to this country.
The women adopted the program of
one child, one home.
They took them to their homes.
The success story of Rwandan children
is highly attributed to the women.
Definitely that is a strong message
not only to Africa but to the whole world.
The inclusion of women is itself
a form of conflict resolution, conducive to peace.
There is hope that this country can rebuild
The music, we are trying to do it well, do it better
with unity, the reconciliation of our people.
FESPAD festival- it's not only Rwandans here.
Many countries responded to the invitation.
We try to sing songs of peace,
for us "amahoro" is peace, "ubumwe" is unity.
And we try to cultivate national pride.
The colors that we wear are the colors of the national flag.
Essentially, we are making a contribution to the unification
which brings about peace.
We're a bunch of soldiers
who put our lives on the line
The Angel of death is down with us
Throw your hands up higher and higher.
Throw 021 up forever
I'm with a bunch of cool soldiers
and each of them has their own story
We express ourselves through rap music.
We talk about things we see in real life.
We have felt enough fire.
I pray for the world to be secure and peaceful
all be safe and happy together.
Throw your hands up higher and higher.
It's out of nationalism and love for our motherland.
We are trying to reach people and have our words heard
not just in Iran, but by people all over the world.
H'opefully we'll have a positive effect, even if it's small.
The flag is up
I want you to throw...
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Around the world, graffiti is defined as a form of vandalism.
Even though the government has banned it
graffiti artists express themselves by painting on the walls.
So the next day, when someone returns from work
he might see graffiti that affects him.
People should be active in different ways.
There's so much space for expressing your talent and changing systems.
An artist can incite revolution with his work.
In my opinion, good art is something that moves and shakes you.
Murders are taking place!
The supreme leader is allowing them!
Someone who knows the culture of the historical Syria
which consists of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine
knows that they celebrated life more than death.
They celebrated wine, dance and arts as an essential substance of life.
As a Syrian citizen
it's my responsibility to work hard on the music of this country
and to present it to people
who are convinced that Syria is a terrorist country.
We can help politicians through music.
When you develop culture in your country
you are working through issues in the world of politics.
This is the best image we can present to the outer world.
To say, "Come see what Syria is, what it produces and what it has."
Since I was young, I loved Arabic calligraphy.
I believe art should have a message.
Truth shines and wrong is shaken.
And right is worth following.
The one who starts injustice is the most unjust.
Justice means that the rights of the people
should be returned to them.
After that, there should be no revenge.
I don't want to be one of the oppressed who becomes an oppressor.
The more you see, the less will have to be explained
Capoeira is a fight that disguises itself as a dance.
You will find its roots as a liberation fight.
African slaves created it in Brazil
but it has transformed itself into a social instrument.
We don't speak Arabic
but we communicate through rhythm and the berimbau.
In Lebanon, we started a capoeira club in 2006
just before the war began
We would continue to meet under the bombs.
Capoeira helped us get through the war.
In the Gaza Strip there are accounts
of Palestinians getting together for capoeira.
In Israel, capoeira is very popular.
I hope it will show them a new path.
The cause of the Palestinian conflict
is that Israelis came from all over the world
expelled the Palestinians from their land, and took their country.
The only thing that will be left here is hatred.
Is that funny?
Is it funny to be sleeping outside, soldiers?
There will be no peace, why?
We don't agree with Israel's vision of "peace".
This is the point on which we always disagree.
They're a powerful country manipulating the media
in a land that is the battleground for all religions.
It is difficult
its end will be the end of the world.
I achieve success without weapons.
I smuggle the experience so that you will listen to me.
Until we reach self-determination!
I am Arab
I aim to denounce all Zionist hostility
savage animals depriving all freedom
Iraqis, Palestinians and Lebanese too!
We have tried every way. We have tried to fight, we tried to resist.
After that they started calling us terrorists.
But we are defending our land.
We are defending our rights.
This is about Safourieh.
It shows how this village was wiped out and the grass grew
and hid all the remains of the houses
to make it look as if there was no village here.
This project has helped me better understand the Palestinian cause.
This is the tool we should use to communicate
to keep alive the history, the memories.
Beir Nabala is a suburb of Jerusalem cut off by the separation wall.
The music was composed by a group called Katibe 5.
They are Palestinian rappers from a refugee camp in Lebanon.
All the nations around the globe should take responsibility.
This case touches you and me. You should bear responsibility.
Katibe 5. It's on fire.
We will see you.
We sing for people who don't listen to rap. Rap is not the main goal.
The goal is the cause for which we are singing.
The cause is the most important thing.
There will be no peace in the world
as long as there are people being killed in Palestine.
Draw from my blood a map of my country.
Gather from its mountains the flowers of
revolutionaries who died before the harvest.
The Palestinians have to do on both fronts.
First they have to fight for their rights in their host countries
and on the other hand they have to fight
with the Israeli who is occupying their land.
So we learn that there is an importance for the arts
as tools to change concepts, to change realities sometimes.
I adore photography. Life is a picture.
In the future, I would like to become a journalist.
To show our country and how special it is.
And to show the truth.
We've been deprived of playing in these
woods for a long time because of the mines.
But you know you can never get a job in this country.
Do you think we'll always be refugees, forever?
In some parts of Rio de Janeiro and some parts of Brazil
there is more death than in actual war zones.
H'ere it's an urban war
where any living being can be a potential target.
It's like an epidemic of minor conflicts everywhere
where firearms arise as the solution to small disputes.
Disputes over power.
People shoot for no reason
not just the criminals, but also the police.
You cannot watch these barbaric acts
you cannot watch people being murdered this way
and not feel anything.
I don't presume to change people's lives
but I do my share as an artist.
I did a billboard this year.
It was a mother hugging a dead child
shot in a school uniform
with a policeman next to them
smiling with a smoking gun.
They came in the middle of the night and painted over the billboard.
This is called fascism.
One absurdity silences another absurdity.
If you open the paper today
If you open the paper, today's absurdity will make you forget yesterday's.
The AK-47 is the most used rifle in wars throughout the world.
You can buy it in Africa for 8 dollars.
Armed groups like it because it's light
children can carry and shoot it with ease.
The "escopetarra," or "gun-guitar."
The philosophy is this:
If the weapon, which was designed to kill
if its use can be changed
then why can't humans change, too?
AfroReggae is a cultural organization.
I gave them one of these gun-guitars
so they could keep working in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Through music, the kids find the tools to change their reality.
When I perform music
it's never just about music.
It's also about things I do through my organization "CUFA"
which offers a variety of classes and opportunities
serving communities in all 27 states of Brazil.
The mission is to invest in education
leisure, culture, career training.
My biggest inspiration is waking up every day
and looking at this community, City of God
and seeing the transformation that has happened through the years
and realizing how much more we need to accomplish.
You have to be quick: Point, shoot and continue.
You can't just walk around like that.
My work in the Rocinha slum was created to open doors
so people can understand the slums and the people who live there.
Besides Rocinha, I have photographed 10 other slums.
Less than 5% of people in the slums are criminals.
They are the ones who give the slums a bad name
but the slums are filled with hardworking and honest people.
H'ow many years have you lived here?
Forty-six years.
So far my little spot here is very peaceful
but up there, I don't know.
It's estimated that in 10 years
over half of the world's population will live in such communities.
And these communities are where the violence exists. But why?
In my photos I try to show where the problem is, where the solution is.
It starts in childhood, at this age.
H'ere is where the problem is.
But if we target that age, I think that a lot can be done.
This is the "S" turn
and this is "Skateboard Mike".
H'ow many kids now?
Five more.
Mike is the spokesman for peace.
Whenever there's a big event, you'll find him on stage.
There are more than 750 slums just in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
When we find a solution for one slum, two more pop up.
Colombia has been through 45 civil wars
since first gaining independence in 1819.
And the problem hasn't been resolved.
Violence has increased
with the growth of the guerrillas.
The state has military and paramilitary forces
that grow ever larger
and an agenda of state terrorism that has intensified.
In the case of Medellin, it's poetry that has united the community.
More than 150,000 people get together each year
at the International Poetry Festival of Medellin.
It demonstrates to the entire world that in a country so drained by war,
poetry shows to humanity that the whole world's problems are one
that suffering is everywhere, but hope also lives in the world.
Since I live in such a big country, everything is far:
Education, food, health, housing.
My country is so big that justice doesn't extend to all.
There is an abuse of power
and greed for natural resources.
We are the children of a planet, a planet that we are depleting
with wars and everything.
Poetry doesn't unseat governments
but it does open consciences and hearts.
The meerkat is madly rolling itself in the Bushveld
hilarious and delirious excited and incited
Rolling itself like a rolled roll-on in the rolling slopes of the bush.
The time has come for us to remember our values.
To put right all our wrongs.
Celebrate our humanity and truly live the belief that each
of us is the same person as all of us.
I have held the broken fragments of shattered dreams in my tiny hand.
I have ground them down to protect myself, sharpened them to stay alive
so that I might still be able to love and hope.
If you use only one hand, nothing happens.
But with thousands of hands, things will change.
Why did I protest?
People are scrounging for work.
They are repressed and arrested by the government.
The military truck smashed the gate and they entered the monastery.
They beat up everyone and destroyed everything.
They tied up the monks
and kicked anyone who looked up.
They made the monks crawl to the trucks.
They beat them from behind until they vomited blood.
Regardless of our lives, we protest.
We protest for freedom.
It's obvious that what the military regime is doing is very unjust
putting students and monks in jail as political prisoners.
Monks were and continue to be tortured.
Military dictatorships never care about the people.
They control and subjugate through fear.
As monks, we do not take up arms.
We do not start armed revolutions.
The political situation here would not benefit from armed revolution.
I would say the protest wasn't successful because many were killed.
But in the past no one knew how the dictator tortured, beat and arrested.
The Saffron Revolution showed the world the cruelty of this regime.
This is one tangible victory.
We must raise our voices.
The only thing left for us is to fight, to fight, and to fight!
Forward, forward, the fight is ongoing!