un peu d’histoire : les canons de paintball rappellent irrésistiblement la « purple rain protest », quand la #répression d’une #manifestation anti-apartheid à Cape Town en septembre 1989 donnait ça :
The Purple Rain Protest is as famous for its iconic imagery as for its role in stopping apartheid in South Africa. When thousands of antiapartheid activists took to the streets in Cape Town four days before parliamentary elections, police turned a water cannon with purple dye on them in an effort to halt the demonstrations and mark the protesters for identification and arrest. The plan backfired, however, when one protester hijacked the nozzle from a police officer and sprayed office buildings and the local headquarters of the ruling National Party. In addition to galvanizing resistance at home, the image of protesters standing in front of a purple torrent became a defining symbol of civil disobedience worldwide.
Purple Rain Protest in Cape Town, 1989 - Stonewall and Other Effective Protest Movements - TIME
▻http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2080036_2080037_2080042,00.html
……… épisode qui inspira Prince. #Afrique_du_Sud
on trouvera sur ce site toute une palette colorée :
▻http://www.deconcrete.org/2011/06/08/the-purple-shall-govern
Protests against homophobic laws in Kampala_Uganda May 2011_Marc Hofer
Protests against George W Bush’s visit to Seoul_August 2008_Chung Sung-Jun
Indian police against Kashmiri_Srinagar June 2008_Tauseef Mustafa
Israel police against Palestinians in Bilin_March 2011_Issam Rimawi
Protests in Dhaka_Bangladesh April 2011_Shuvo Das
Protests commemoration anti-Soviet Uprising in Budapest_October 2006_Joe Klamar
Protests in Ramallah_August 2006_Nasser Shiyoukhi
