A photograph that I like...

Flower Power

This is the photograph that I like the most because it represents the no-violence, and peace.

The flower represents the Flower Power movement that begins at the oldies 60’s and early 70’s in Bekerley, California as a symbolic action of protest against Vietnam War. Ginsberg wrote an essay on 1965 titled “How to make a March/Spectacle, and advocated thar prostesters should be provided with “masses of flowers” to hand out policeman, press, politicians and spectators. They wanted to make something like a street theater showing their anti-war movement on a very creative way, and very beautiful by the way. This movement was represented specifically by the hippies, althought I think that not only them must have though that way.

I think that those ways to represents peace and no-violence now are kinf of forgotten, because now, although there are many people that wants to represents their ideals on a pacific way, there are many people too that don’t respect that and ends to resort to force.

Those times, there were many important people that “fight” for peace, like John Lennon and Yoko Ono with their slogan “War is Over, if you want it” and “Give peace a chance”, those were very strong messages. And many other representations for peace, like Woodstock. But this times seems that things have changed and people care about other things, and the media doesn’t inform properly to people.

And the most sadly thing is that those artist that “fight” for peace are almost all dead or too old, and the artist of nowday don’t care about moving people to fight for their ideals when they easily could do that.