Activism consists of intentional efforts to promote, impede or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing businesses, rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, and hunger strikes.
Activists can function in roles as public officials, as in judicial activism. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. introduced the term "judicial activism" in a January 1947 Fortune magazine article titled "The Supreme Court: 1947."
Some activists try to persuade people to change their behavior directly, rather than to persuade governments to change or not to change laws. The cooperative movement seeks to build new institutions which conform to cooperative principles, and generally does not lobby or protest politically, and clergymen often exhort their parishioners to follow a particular moral code or system.
As with those who engage other activities such as singing or running, the term may apply broadly to anyone who engages in it even briefly, or be more narrowly limited to those for whom it is a vocation, habit or characteristic practice. In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends. In short activism is not always an action by Activists.
Juaquin Malphurs (born May 31, 1986), better known by his stage name Waka Flocka Flame, is an American rapper signed to 1017 Brick Squad and Warner Bros. He is a Southern hip hop artist best known for his singles "O Let's Do It", "Hard in da Paint" & "No Hands", along with his debut album, Flockaveli. Waka Flocka Flame has announced that his second album, Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family, will be released during the spring of 2012.
Juaquin Malphurs was born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York in 1986. His family eventually settled in Riverdale, Georgia. He is the son of Debra Antney, Gucci Mane's former manager and CEO of So Icey/Mizay Entertainment. The name "Waka" was given to him by his cousin, after the Muppets character Fozzie Bear's catch phrase, "Waka Waka". The name "Flocka Flame" was given to him by rapper Gucci Mane. Waka Flocka posed for a nude but unrevealing picture for the company PETA to boycott killing animals. The picture says "Ink not Mink". The picture design is similar to Waka Flocka Flame's album Flockaveli. Waka Flocka Flame said that he has known Gucci Mane since he was 19
Radric Davis (born February 2, 1980), better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is an American rapper. He debuted in 2005 with Trap House and followed with albums such as Hard to Kill in 2006, Trap-A-Thon and Back to the Trap House in 2007. In 2009, his second studio album The State vs. Radric Davis was released, and The Appeal: Georgia's Most Wanted was released in 2010, and is his highest charting album so far. Gucci Mane has released many other mixtapes and independent albums as well.
While serving a six-month jail term for assault in late 2005, Davis was charged with murder, though the charges were later dropped due to a lack of evidence. In 2009, he served a year-long county jail sentence for violating probation for his 2005 aggravated assault conviction.
Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and later moved with his single mother to Atlanta. He enjoyed writing poetry as a child, and began rapping at age 14.
In 2005, Davis released his independent debut album entitled Trap House, which featured the successful single "Icy" with Young Jeezy. Disputes over the rights to this single caused a rift between the two artists. Hard to Kill followed in 2006. Hard To Kill included the hit single "Freaky Gurl". The song peaked at number 12 on the Hot Rap Tracks, number 19 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and at number 62 on the Hot 100.
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On February 27, 2012, the administrative court of Koblenz, in Western Germany, dismissed a complaint by a black German man who was asked to show his papers while traveling by train. The judges ruled that skin color was reasonable grounds on which to carry out ID checks. The sentence confirmed for the first time the existence and practice of racial profiling in Germany.
Keywords: activist, deutschland, europe, german, germany, human-rights, law, nazi, nobel-prize, npd
The first documentary film about racial profiling in Europe
Institutionalized racism in Germany
150 cases of racial brutality by Berlin Police in the last 10 years
Plot
On February 27, 2012, the administrative court of Koblenz, in Western Germany, dismissed a complaint by a black German man who was asked to show his papers while traveling by train. The judges ruled that skin color was reasonable grounds on which to carry out ID checks. The sentence confirmed for the first time the existence and practice of racial profiling in Germany.
Keywords: activist, deutschland, europe, german, germany, human-rights, law, nazi, nobel-prize, npd
The first documentary film about racial profiling in Europe
Institutionalized racism in Germany
150 cases of racial brutality by Berlin Police in the last 10 years
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An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and conversations with the hotel owner develop into an affair which encompasses decades of socio-political changes in the country.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, accident, affair, aging, baguio, beer, burning-book, campus
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Samantha's band, the Zettabytes, is meeting with little success, so her friend Roscoe uses his knowledge of technology designed by his father to create a holographic lead singer, Loretta Modern. The band instantly becomes successful, but Samantha begins to feel alienated, Roscoe discovers feelings for Samantha, and Loretta struggles with individuality.
Keywords: band, computer-genius, disney-channel-original-movie, hologram, individuality, rock-group
Samantha: Touching is not the only way to feel.
Loretta Modern: [after Samantha reaches to see that Loretta is just a hologram]::Loretta Modern: You're in my liver.
Samantha: She's just a trick of light.::Loretta Modern: And you're nothing but water and a few pounds of chemicals! Maybe a few more pounds than you *really need.*::Samantha: It's not fair! I can't even smack her!
Loretta Modern: Why would you want Samantha anyway? She's not like me. She's not perfect.::Roscoe: She doesn't have to be.::Loretta Modern: Are you saying you love her because of her imperfections?::Roscoe: Yes! Because of everything she is, and because of everything she's not.
Samantha: [to Roscoe about Loretta] Admit it, you're in love with her. Why wouldn't you be? You created her. She's perfect. There's only one problem... SHE'S NOT REAL!
Loretta Modern: Perfect. Ugh! I hate that word! If I'm so perfect, why do I feel so limited? I mean, look at this place you've created. You're so lucky. Samantha, you get to be the dreamer, but all I'll ever be is the dream.::Samantha: I never thought of it that way.
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A half-demented girl gets a job in a retirement home scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets. She develops a friendship with an invalid who is given a special care due to his wealth and former position. She also befriends an orderly, with whom she lives in a self-made shack. When he is turned down for an apartment, she tries to get money for him asking the invalid. When he refuses she smashes his head with the bottle and screams.
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The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.
Keywords: corruption, male-frontal-nudity, mental-breakdown, poland, police, politics, prison, revolt, terrorism, title-directed-by-female
i hit
without warning
my way
is straight
you never see
where i hide
and you can't
recognize me
i have a mission
and i don't hesitate
like shadow
i move
and suddenly
i strike
mask on
my face
tool in
my hand
Our pulse to resist
Moves our cultural resistance
I'm living this life
Inside a civil tribe demised
Improve my old mind
Breaking all rules, absorbing what I may find
Our manner to protect
Destroys what's left for protection
Believing in symbols
The church will fool our souls
Prove you my role
Acting against undesired control
Don't fear your left
Don't trust your right
Activist
Our way of seeing progress
Makes us walk towards repression
Disturbing our peace
In the name of self defense
Being felt by all
Our violent taste for the humans fall
Don't fear your left
Don't trust your right