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>> the situation worsens with each passing year. aids deaths skyrocket. by 1991, the number of people infected with hiv reaches 1 million. and theres still no effective drug treatment in sight. >> almost in step with the way the epidemic was exploding, the turnout to act up exploded. first it was a few dozen people planning, and then a thousand people or more showing up at a meeting. >> in january, 1991, around the 10-year anniversary of the epidemic, actup mounts a major coordinated protest, ho...

Horrible. >> the mystery of what happened to the tank man persists. some believe he was captured or executed. others think he may have escaped the country. still others imagine he may yet be in china. in hiding. >> i dont believe hes ever been arrested for found. i dont believe the chinese government knows who he is. >> hes the unknown soldier. hes representing all of us. >> images of the tank man are never published in china and are virtually unknown by the chinese public. >> thats the one imag...

They want to look at us. now they can see our naked bodies, but its always reaching what we demand. >> 25-year-old elvere joined femin in 2012 after she witnessed one of their topless protests in paris. >> femin uses the nudity in another context, not a seductive context where were supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we dont sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. >> i am half naked but not an object. im not here for your pleasure. im here to deliver my own ...

To keep your internet of things in-sync, in real-time. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. its time to march on city hall! >> activists in new york city bringing attention to a crisis that has grown into an epidemic. >> were dying. the city is dying. >> march 28th, 1989. a protest at city hall draws

Advocacy group, actup, are looking for new ways to get the message across. >> as we got into the 90s, the number of our friends within actup dying was just escalating and we were really getting tired of metaphors. and a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actups activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long campaign called campaign 92...

Felt. to be surrounded by people who cared about something so much. and so i just kept coming back after that. >> for the next few days, as the crowds swell and chants get louder, matt shoots everything he can of the protest and the protesters. >> there was so much of this emotion happening all around me. people were just so incredibly passionate about what they were there for. >> the demonstrators begin occupying the capitol 24 hours a day. >> the sight that ive never seen was people sleeping a...

>> the mystery of what happened to the tank man persists. some believe he was captured or executed. others think he may have escaped the country. still others imagine he may yet be in china. in hiding. >> i dont believe hes ever been arrested or found. i dont believe the chinese government knows who he is. >> hes the unknown soldier. hes representing all of us. >> images of the tank man are never published in china and are virtually unknown by the chinese public. >> thats the one image they dont...

New yorks confrontational advocacy group, actup, are looking for new ways to get the message across. >> as we got into the 90s, the number of our friends within actup dying was just escalating and we were really getting tired of metaphors. and a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actups activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long c...

And a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actups activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long campaign called campaign 92: aids, vote if your life depended on it. >> on october 11th, three weeks before the election, thousands of actup members come to washington to perform a solemn protest. >> no more -- >> they coincided with the aid...

Begins to lead femin in several highly publicized actions across europe, including a loud and cold protest in dabos. >> we came to ask, to show our impression and opinion about how it is to be woman today in an economic world. whos the most oppressed part of society? we are. >> demonstration against the catholic church, and pope benedict. >> for us, all religions are bad because our religion, our base, domination of male upon women. and in a few seconds, security services started to catch us and...