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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 there's 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, hoping to attract maximum media coverage. they call it day of desperation. >> we've gotten some progr...

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 don't believe he's ever been arrested for found. i don't believe the chinese government knows who he is. >> he's the unknown soldier. he's representing all of us. >> images of the tank man are never published in china and are virtually unknown by the chinese public. >> that's the one image they don't want anyone to see. you see it and it does say it all, doesn't it? >> it was an a...

They want to look at us. now they can see our naked bodies, but it's 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 we're supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we don't sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. >> i am half naked but not an object. i'm not here for your pleasure. i'm here to deliver my own message. >> in august, 2012, a solo act of defiance in the ukrainian capital of kiev gets ina i...

To keep your internet of things in-sync, in real-time. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. it's time to march on city hall! >> activists in new york city bringing attention to a crisis that has grown into an epidemic. >> we're 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, actup's 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, th...