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We are ordinary people.

We are like you.

People who have families and friends.

People who work hard every day to make a living.

People who get up every morning to study, work or find a job.

Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative.

Some of us are believers, some are not.

But we are all concerned and angry

about the political, economic, and social conditions.

We are anonymous, but without us none of this would exist

because we move the world.

It's time to change things and build a better society together.

But contrary to popular belief, violence is not the most successful method in this struggle.

REVEREND BILLY Actor & Performance Artist

NEW YORK CITY, USA

OccupyWallStreet to use megaphones! Let's use our voices to amplify our message! a

ZUCCOTTI PARK

MADRID, SPAIN

JUAN CARLOS C. ARIZA Unemployed Computer Engineer

Hello Maria Angeles, how are you?

I just received the letter from the bank

I have to leave my flat on the 28th of September.

What do you think?

In addition, they are leaving me a debt of 200.000 euros.

I don't know what to do.

OK. Thank you. See you.

I've been living here since 2007.

This flat was my life's project.

The beginning of a new chapter to move on

and to build a life.

Actually a real life project.

But it collapses now,

due to the circumstances that surround us,

because of an economy that destroys us.

The priorities of any advanced society must be equality, progress,

solidarity, freedom of culture, sustainability and development,

welfare, and the people's happiness.

There are irrevocable rights which we should uphold in our society:

the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education,

political participation, free personal development,

and consumer rights for a healthy and happy life.

FROM THE MANIFIESTO DEMOCRACIA REAL YA OF THE SPANISH 15M MOVEMENT

Sofia!

Let's find that big pan we have for tomorrow.

Which one?

The one we used before that made a lot of noise.

That one!

GEMA & SOFIA Teacher & Student

Global Noise Day, here it is.

All of them. Look, Turkey.

All of Europe. Awesome. North America as well.

Central America...

Mexico, Peru, Argentina! How good!

Last year, only three cities participated.

Now we have nine, with New Zealand. How good.

Will you have time to come to the demonstration?

I don't think so. - Why?

I have many things to do.

Only few people of your age are involved.

I don't know if they just don't know what is going on, what lies ahead.

A bourgeoise society that can't live without labels, shopping,

beers, going out for dinner - We have become very lazy.

Yes, but this is coming to an end.

Push ahead, beauty. Hurry up! We won't be here forever.

They are offering you a very dark future.

MIKE BONNANO The Yes Men, Activist Group

FROM THE DECLARATION OF THE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK CITY

JOHN JACKSON Co-Author of Small Acts of Resistance

NEW YORK CITY September 2012

They call it a democracy, but it is not!

These are, these are...

these are our weapons.

KIEV, UKRAINE

FEM EN Feminist Group

IN NA SH EVCH EN KO Femen, Activist

EURO without prostitution!

Femen, Femen

We bother the idiots, we fascinate the intellectuals, and we frighten the dictators.

Fuck the EURO 2012!

Ukraine is not a brothel!

Go away! Go away!

How do you spell that?

You are so nervous Oksane!

So, there's the cross. Inna will be standing in front of it.

And you'll hold it on both sides.

KIEV, AUGUST 2012

For women's freedom, and freedom for Pussy Riot!

But since we don't have freedom yet, I have to run, sorry.

Three days later

I'm escaping from the Ukraine.

This morning I was woken by a loud knocking on my door.

Five or six men were pushing the door.

I know that they were people from the Ukrainian secret service.

Inna game over. One bottle Acid is waiting for you

ace is in Auschwitz, you're just a bitch not a woman! I wish you a horrible death a

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

YOUTH FOR DEMOCRACY Nonviolent Activism Conference

Revolution again, from the start.

Freedom! Freedom!

YAHIA ZAYED Interior Designer

EQYPt, Egypt

MADRID, SPAIN

The evictions are marking the Spanish crisis.

In Madrid alone, there are around 8O a day.

A delay of today's eviction would be a miracle.

This is not a solution!

Threatening to jump out the window,

was the only thing this girl could do to try to avoid the eviction of her mum.

Let's remember the assembly signs: This means agreement, support.

That way we won't interrupt the person who is talking, and we nod.

Disagreement with an idea goes like this.

We reject ideas, not people.

Our plan, apart from collecting signatures in various places,

is to inform people about the assembly.

Maybe some people don't know where we meet, or that the assembly even exists.

Or they just don't join because they think we don't propose interesting things.

We don't need a military coup.

Our simple alternative is to support the assembly meetings.

If the assembly grows and becomes stronger,

and gets significant involvement of the society, it will be stronger than any political party.

Even if the law stands in its way.

And the reality of the public will change.

As the slogan says: "We were asleep, now we woke up."

We know we will get far, that's why we move slowly.

We realized that we must change this world.

Because the possibility of making it better exists.

We are talking about politics in the streets again. This was unthinkable one year ago.

It's a big achievements of the 15M Movement.

MARIA ANGELES Retiree

How are you? - Fine!

I don't think we can give up. We have to try.

We have to fight, and there are people willing to help you.

This is already working.

We collect signatures in the neighborhood, that's the way we do it.

And then you go to the bank and tell them: Look, this is what we have.

This man has all these people behind him, who are against his eviction.

The bank doesn't want all these people to think they are a soulless bank,

which will evict all these people. - It's negative propaganda.

We put banners all around the neighborhood.

If the neighbors know what's going on, more people will help you.

Those new offers from the banks are lies, and won't solve your problems.

If you are weak, they will eat you.

SRDJA POPOVIC Nonviolent Consultant, C.A.N.V.A.S.

"I AM A FREE WOMAN“

"GOD BLESS YOUR INCOME“

ALIAA ELMAH DY

"WAKE UP“

TEHRAN, IRAN Freedom Square

In Iran, the only thing that's left of freedom is a tower.

And even that has many cracks already.

You might want to know who I am?

I'm the voice of all those, who weren't allowed to talk freely for years.

It seems as if nothing has happened here. Everything is quiet, and we are all silent.

Looks as if we've never had a protest march of millions.

And no one ever had to go to prison.

After our protests during the manipulated elections in 2009

we were called the source of riots and chaos, puppets of the West, useless scum.

TEHRAN, IRAN June 2009

Death to the dictator!

Neda... Neda, don't go.

DR. MASSOUMEH TORFEH Research Associate, London University

Many activists fled Iran.

Taking part in public demonstrations meant prison, torture, and execution.

But we found other ways to continue our protests.

Less risky ways that helped us to show the regime that we are still here.

"BE AFRAID OF THE STORM THAT WILL COME“

"FOR WHICH CRIME HAS SHE BEEN KILLED?!“

WARSAW, POLAND

I've arrived at Warsaw. I'm waiting at the station.

A girl named Natasha should come soon, she answered a request on our facebook page.

She wrote that she could help us. But I don't know who she is.

I am at Natasha's place. She's a very nice girl and not a KGB agent or someone like that.

Natasha is going to show her tits soon, in one of our next Femen campaigns.

Maybe I'll do that, but not so soon.

Let's do it together.

I'm alive thanks to Natasha - You will have a long life!

These are our T-Shirts.

Is this a new girl?

Yes, this is Katja, also a new one.

That is our French girl, Eloise.

They came to us, those naked women from the Ukraine.

What is their name?

Femen? Femen group. Yes.

ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO President of the Republic of Belarus

They do everything for the pictures and the provocation.

If we started to arrest them during their protests,

someone could film it and use it against me. No need for that.

You just need to wait for the right moment to catch them.

Otherwise they will just put this picture on the internet, and millions will see it.

So they appeared once, but they won't do it again.

Take care! I want to thank you, you helped me a lot!

I didn't know where else to go.

I want you to be healthy and continue what you do.

That you continue to show your boobs and your tattoo

That you all get along well, and that you're lucky!

I love you, come back soon!

PARIS, FRANCE

!! Stand up for your rights and fuck the patriarchy!!! You have support from the E

Should be done with all religious symbols... Religion is the biggest mindfuck ever.

AMIN HUSAIN Lawyer

MONICA HUNKEN Writer & Performer

ANDY BICHLBAUM The Yes Men, Activist Group

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

EVERYTHING IS OK British Activist Group

DAMASCUS, SYRIA Damascus speaking. A message from the people.

We are the boys and girls of the revolution for freedom and peace.

We strongly call for the resignation of Bashar al-Assad.

He should hand over the power to the Syrian people immediately.

We assure you that we won't stop the peaceful revolutionary movement...

until our demands are answered.

We want freedom.

We want justice, and a civil society.

Long live Syria!

The idea was that the speech and the resistance song "Mawtini" should reach all of Damascus,

to show the people that the will to nonviolence was still alive in the youth.

We planned to do much more, and be more effective.

But each time we worked on a project, the authorities showed up.

I feel that it's really difficult to be a stranger.

I refuse to define myself as a refugee.

I am a Syrian revolutionary.

SYRIAN REFUGEE CAMPS, JORDAN

AHMED Z. Architect

Once, a friend of mine came to me in a café.

He had the idea to color the water of the fountains of Damascus,

to symbolize the bloodshed in Syria.

Damascus is bleeding

The government found it odd.

They had to shut down all fountains in Damascus

in order to change the water.

People really liked the idea and we got amazing response from the streets.

Colored red, symbolic for the blood of the dead.

People haven't realized that these social movements are formed by all kinds of people.

I'm not fighting for myself, my health, my education, my social conditions, but for everyone.

A government that does not defend its society, its own people

is a fucking government!

Why don't we join together?

Don't pay the mortgage for one month.

They won't take your home for just one month. In one month we can destroy them.

Or two days without consuming petrol.

We can destroy them if we get together.

If I were the president... and I want everyone to hear this!

If I were president, I'd send foreigners back to their countries.

- But why? - To give jobs to Spanish people!

I would give the same conditions to everybody.

- I would really do it! - But it's not the immigrants fault!

- Whose fault is it?

So it's the immigrants fault that the Spanish have no jobs?

I didn't say that. You didn't understand me.

Anyway, I no longer give a shit.

What's happening here? You don't let me work! I'm poor!

Two months ago I was in Stockholm.

Do you know how many Spanish there are in the same situation like us?

Many. - Yes, many.

Listen! They asked me: "Why don't you go back to your fucking country?"

I said: "Because I can't eat in my fucking country, so I have to leave!"

This is not only a problem of Spain. It's a world-wide problem.

Where is the actual power? With the people, not with the politicians!

It's not there.

But the people forgot that. - It's the people!

We have the obligation to reclaim this power.

How many have signed the "dacién en page"?

So the bank forgives your mortgage debt when you lose your house.

Are you all willing to lose your homes?

How many of you participated in demonstrations?

Just to make them bigger? How many of you?

Oh, come on!

You know what to do, get informed!

Every district has an assembly and we can do things.

All districts can do things. All of them.

We need an ethical revolution.

Instead of placing money above human beings,

we shall put it back to our service.

We are people, not products.

I'm not a product of what I buy, why I buy, and who I buy from.

I'm outraged at all this.

I think I can change it.

I think I can help.

I know that together we can.

Join us! You have the right to.

PAMELA BROWN Columnist & Scholar

PROF. ANDREW ROSS University of New York

py Wall Street activists buy and abolish $15milli0n of Americans' personal debt #

CHRISTOPHER BROWN Physician

They don't represent us.

SOLFONICA Spanish Protest Choir

The social peace is going to end.

Today a woman committed suicide in Barakaldo.

She jumped out of the window because she was going to be evicted.

It's the third case of death in less than a month

in connection with judicial procedures dealing with the non-payment of mortgage.

A ruling of the General Lawyer of the European Court of Justice asserts

that the Spanish Eviction Law infringes on the regulations of the European Union.

The idea is that

I give up the flat voluntarily.

We don't know if it will work this way or not.

We are working with the platform to achieve the "dacién en page."

Which is most important

so I am forgiven the debt.

If we achieve the cancellation of debt, I will give up the flat, if not

we will refuse to give up the flat.

"UNITED AGAINST THE BANKS“

"BANKS ARE THIEVES“

PARIS, FRANCE

IRAN

Freedom for political prisoners!

Death to the dictator!

Allah is great!

I continued with small acts of resistance, and knew that I wasn't alone.

With their hidden protests many people showed that you cannot kill the people's thoughts.

Welcome, dear friends.

I want to show you a method of putting posters on the walls.

You turn the paper over and use a candle or something else.

Using this method, the poster will roll down automatically

a few minutes after you left the location.

Take a look now.

A good day will come when we do not kill each other. When we won't look at each other badly.

We will all be friends and walk with our arms on each others shoulders.

Just like our childhood in grade school.

None of us will be left without a role in the building and development of Iran.

In order not to become tired, I will place the mortar and you the cement.

After all the rain of blood a rainbow will be seen.

MANA NEYESTANI Iranian Cartoonist

The clouds in the sky will not be made up of rocks

ICY & SOT Iranian Graffiti Artists

AM MAN, JORDAN

KADAR & MAHMOUD Humanitarian Aid Workers

Here are balloons. Do you have a hand pump for these?

I hope they won't burst while inflating.

This one's good.

Those? - Is it for children?

Yes, it's for children who have nothing. There is nothing around them.

There is no library or anything. - They are in the refugee camp?

Yes, the Syrian refugee camp.

No way, not this one.

We don't want people to be confronted with this kind of stuff again.

It's important that this generation learns about peace.

They shouldn't oppress others, nor play war games.

But they only see this.

I agree, but this is exactly the reason they fled from Syria.

They fled because of the violence, the attacks, and the problems these things implicate.

But they are kids, and it's only a game. - No, it's not only a game.

It teaches children violence.

We can give them more beautiful things. - That's nice, but I'm not sure

We don't want the kids to play with that! - What about waterpistols?

Even in times of peace, children like to play with them.

No, even if it's only waterpistols.

We want to break this kind of culture!

I don't care if people fled from the Syrian military or the armed groups.

It's none of my business.

I see them as human beings and I try to help them.

I would take money from the devil to help the refugees.

I want to tell you so many stories from Syria...

We wanted to distribute flyers, which was pretty difficult.

So we hid flyers in balloons and put helium inside.

That way we could add ideas, short messages, or the Syrian flag.

The groups used different methods to let the balloons explode.

One of them took a hairclip and a piece of ice.

When the ice has melted, the balloon explodes, and the flyers fall down.

These campaigns distressed the government a lot.

They couldn't catch them, and they didn't know how to respond.

We used many ideas from Gene Sharp's book.

Gene Sharp's book is about tactics of non-violent resistance.

We got ping-pong balls, painted them in purple, and wrote "freedom" and other words on them.

We throw them out on streets of Mahajreen.

The balls started to jump around. This was close to Bashar's house.

The security people ran around and tried to catch the balls.

It was hilarious to look at them. We roared with laughter.

Hey, Iranian, your dog is saying goodbye to you, listen!

He's falling, but he still spoils himself. You will fall, Bashar. You will fall.

We don't need the NATO, we are going to get him at his house.

If he just knew what revolutionary means.

You will fall, Bashar!

Putin Dictator!

BRAZIL

Did you see the last demonstration, where police infiltrated the protest?

What do you think?

Amazing. -Wicked.

It's obvious in the videos:

The undercover cops bother the police. The police reacts,

and then they push people towards the police vans.

Amazing.

A teacher from the university saw them and sent an email, saying:

"Look how stupid they were to all wear the same boots!"

But it's not funny.

No, it's not funny at all.

"Infiltrators! Infiltrators!"

"I'm one of you

"I told you I'm one of you!"

This video is another proof of police infiltrating the protesting mass.

This protester begging the police not to hit him is actually an undercover policeman.

If we notice any strange behaviour leading to violent actions,

we try to calm the people down.

We stop them before they get violent

without taking any physical risks ourselves.

If this doesn't work out,

we will move away from the violent individuals.

We sit on the floor in silence, and we point at them.

We need many participants to get the attention of even more people.

We will tell the security forces about the situation.

Once the situation is back to normal,

we will stand up and shout "No violence!"

And in the end, we all applaud.

If the police stopped the violent action,

they should get the applause.

A few days ago, I watched the trials of the Iran Tribunal in The Hague on the internet.

Exiled witnesses and victims worked five years to organize this symbolic trial.

It was one of the biggest nonviolent protest campaigns in exile in the last years.

THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS October 2012

I was new, and my cell mates told me the prison guards were just bluffing

and would let you go when you answer with "Yes".

One day, the guard came in and called me.

I went forward.

He asked me if I had signed my confession. I said: "Yes".

He asked me if I would execute someone, if the court decided that this person had to be killed.

I said: "Yes".

Are you able to continue?

Or should we take a break. - No!

It has been over 27 years now that I have these images in my head.

I want to talk about it.

Then the order to shoot came, and...

and we shot.

All the corpses where lying around us.

Then one of them started to shoot, and finished them off.

He shot so many times the shooting lasted 15 minutes, at least.

I had gone fishing only once, during my adolescence.

And all my life I've had a bad conscience about killing that one fish.

Now they had forced me to kill someone, whose only crime was his fight for freedom.

I took part in his killing.

And this is a feeling that I'll have to bear my whole life.

Executions are taking place in Iran right now.

We dealt with a small part of the crimes and we must continue this now.

Our beloved ones did not die.

Their dreams are alive and became a people's movement.

MASS GRAVE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS Khavaran Cemetery, Tehran

You, you are too old. It's for the little ones.

You want a present, too?

Kadar?

Are you happy now? Stop crying now.

That's enough filming now!

Bashar al-Assad, Maher al-Assad, and Rami Machlouf are sitting in an airplane.

They fly over a big demonstration in Syria.

Maher al-Assad says: "Let's throw down 5.000 Lira, and 5.000 people will be happy."

Rami Machlouf says: "10.000 Lira and 10.000 people will be happy."

Bashar al-Assad says: "No, 500 Lira and 500 people will be happy."

Finally, the pilot says: "I'll throw you three out, and 23 million people will be happy."

With a weapon I might achieve my goals faster.

But in the end I will lose, because a bullet is made to kill.

But the word I say

or the graffities, the balloons

or the flowers I give to a policeman. They might not bring fast solutions.

And that policeman, if he didn't arrest or kill me,

might not be affected instantly.

But he'll go home and show the flower to his family.

This will cause a reaction.

We are not afraid.

The mountains are covered with tulips, the tulips are alive

planting the sun in the mountains, flower by flower by flower.

The heart of the fighter is alive in the mountains

...he is bringing a gun, flowers and wheat.

In his heart he has a forest of stars...

"SAR OMAD ZEMESTOON“ Traditional armenian/persian folk song

The winter has come to an end, the spring has blossomed.

The red flower of the sun has risen once again, the night has escaped.

Each time we asked for our rights, we were put down.

We are only silent because of the knife at our brothers and sisters throats.

We are still here.

But if we had a united voice we would reach our goal faster.

PARIS Egyptian Embassy

Aliaa Elmahdy is a 20-year-old Egyptian girl.

After the revolution she posted a picture of herself, naked, on her blog.

She was threatened with death, and had to leave Egypt.

We are all here

for a campaign we planned together with Femen.

On this symbolic day for Egypt.

On which we wanted to denounce the influence of religion in Arab countries

and the oppression of women through religion.

Can We g9? Why?

NEW YORK CITY September 17, 2012

Shame!

At 7:30 a.m. the police closed the street to prepare Juan Carlos' eviction.

According to the International Pact of Rights, signed by Spain in 1977,

this is illegal. We can't tolerate it.

Dude, you can imagine, it's a total loss.

I don't cry. I am brave, but the feeling I have it's intense.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

ALIAA ELMAHDY Egyptian Blogger & Activist

STOCKHOLM Egyptian Embassy

Yes, it's possible.

Finally, thanks to the pressure of the platforms,

who help to stop evictions in Spain,

Juan Carlos has two more months to convince the bank not to take his flat.

I am really grateful for all this.

We'll keep on fighting. Everyday, not only for me, but for everybody.

We will continue the struggle. This system must be changed somehow

We have new forms of demonstrations, which come from different parts of the country.

Each crowd moves towards the center.

The assemblies welcome the marches

coming from the East, West, North or South.

It looks very nice because it grows, like a river.

Then the people march together, towards the end of a demonstration.