I HAVE A DREAM!

The Royal Command is one of the biggest and most imporant events for the British Royal Family. It is a musical show, a benefit event aimed to collect funds. It is held in London and the Royal Family is the main audience. Performers are the biggest artists of the moment and in 1968 the Supremes were the top guests.

When they sang the song titled Somewhere (where there is a monologue by Diana Ross), the 3 ladies took the chance to hold a brave speech and Diana started saying:

 

I've not many occasions to talk in front of powerful people like tonight. As you can see, I'm black, you are white. I'm singing and you're listening to and when it's all done, we'll leave the room together. There are some places in this world, including my Country, the USA, where black and white people don't have the same rights, they can't even exit the same door. I'd like you to think about that while you're going home tonight.

 

Silent fell and someone started clapping hands, and then an other one, and again...more and more...

 

Shortly all the audience stood up for a 2-minute standing ovation. At the end of the concert, the Mother Queen received the Supremes. This was a small step to change things because knowledge and consciousness is the first step to improvement. 

Bear all in mind those words and let's  think about all kind of discriminations we still have today in our society!  

PEACE!

WHAT IS FREEDOM FOR YOU?

When I was 18, I was living one of the darkest moments in my life.

My father took me and said: "Be independent! Face any kind of difficulty and be brave: independence is the real way to be free"!

These words are so deep inside of me!

Make experience.

Experience means knowledge.

Knowledge means ideas.

Have your own ideas and think different if necessary!

That's what FREEDOM is for me: being independent!

JUSTICE!

This is not a Gangnam Style dance step!!

WATERPROOF

I need a raincoat,

to let all the negativities fall down,

 

it shoul be waterproof,

to avoid to be affected...

 

that's why I'm going to tattoo a panther on my arm,

the feline able to swim...

swim or sink...

it's a daily choice!

A WOMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE!

I suggest you to see Iron Jawed Angels (Angeli d'Acciaio in Italian), a great movie I've seen last Saturday and which moved me a lot! The cast is amazing and tells the story of Alice Paul (New Jersey, 11th Jan 1885 - 9th July 1977),  who pushed for women's voting rights and led the Suffragist movement in the early '900!           

                

At first, she was a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association but then Alice left to form the more militant Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (group later renamed the National Woman's Party).

Known for using provocative visual media to make their point, and known as the "Silent Sentinels", the NWP members picketed the White House under the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1917, making them the first group to take such action. Alice was jailed in October and November of that year as a result of the protests.

She was placed in solitary confinement for two weeks and began a hunger strike. Doctors brutally forced a tube into her nose and down her throat, pouring liquids into her stomach three times a day for three weeks. Despite the pain and illness this caused, Alice refused to end the hunger strike.

Thanks to a spy, newspapers across the country ran articles about the suffragists' jail conditions and forced feedings. This news angered many Americans and the goverment released all the suffragists on November 27th and 28th, 1917.

Two years later (!!) women won the right to vote with the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Until she was debilitated by a stroke in 1974, passing away in 1977, Alice Paul continued her fight for women’s rights. A woman's work is never done!

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice S. Paul

SIGHT

I love the movie titled "PROFONDO ROSSO" by Dario Argento, mainly because the audience makes the same protagonist's mistake.

Sight is selective and emotional: you only see what you want to.