AN ROSE KASMIR

The Avalon Foundation obtainable the International Relief Present 2010 to one of the women whose brand name is effectively undiagnosed, unfortunately her self image being a pacifist happens to be known around the world for over 40 years. She is an icon of peace and is a symbol of the collective human unconscious against war and violence.

For a few several years, her brand name has developed remained approximately unidentified, until a Constitutional law journalist accomplished an investigation to identify her in conclusion her brand name JANROSE KASMIR was known.

The figure that provides her increasingly becoming part of the credit report of the 20th hundred years was taken by the well-known Constitutional law professional photographer Marc Riboud. The snapshot was taken during the worry MARCH ON THE PENTAGON in 1967, which was the first important antiwar demonstration in its background, in which the youth of the Woodstock generating dared to stand up to the political leadership routing the operations of the Vietnam Conflict to deman their dismissal and get back the U.S. troops to their homeland.

The representation of Jan Zwick Kasmir has become a historic milestone.

On October 21st 1967 was the to begin with major antiwar exhibition in destiny, any time around 190.000 persons lead for the Pentagon in Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War and the get back of U.S. troops home. It seemed the famous raise our voice Proceed ON THE PENTAGON.

The national of United States received under no circumstances professional an on community protest of this description and in response to the measure of people that take part in the demonstration, the General Guard troops wrapped the Pentagon with an ostensibly defensive attitude. For several hours the demonstrators were in front of the troops, and there is a couple of skirmishes with the intent that the pacifists come into the Pentagon, resulting in lots of damages and then arrests.

Toward the nett of the monday morning, the shooter Marc Riboud concrete saw one girl standing pounds removed from the bayonets of the servants.

"It was a wonderful field -recalls Riboud-. A 17 years old girl saying, You can still crush the flower, but we are brothers, we will talk'. She simply just spoken with them, tried to attract the look of the undead, trying to chat with to them. I became that the soldiers were more afraid of her compared with she of the bayonets", says Riboud.

Riboud utilized the field cautiously, exercising photos under the soothing, slowly fade luminosity of dusk, with the go on reel that was left in his camera. It was two to three many years after that he may experience the name of the better half. However, one of the photos he rendered (the contrast of the capacity of the armed military and then an innocent hippie) may well immediately transform into a defining movie of anti-war however her ideas remain a furniture in expositions not to mention documentaries on pacifism not to mention her snaps are printed constantly.

This girl was JAN ROSE KASMIR...

In February 2003, almost forty years after the March on the Pentagon, she demonstrated for pleasure against the world war in Iraq in The uk (find out snapshot at the top of the television).