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"The Revolution is possible by talking good people, being them left or right wind. This is what I want to do now."

This thought sums up Roberto Saviano's strenght and good will.
A perfect communicator, a hero of our times, fighting against injustice, corruption and mafia in Italy.

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Brad is no ordinary ukulele player. He not only takes his ukulele everywhere he goes, but he also lovingly and enthusiastically plays it all the time. His mission is to make everyone play the ukulele. He teaches it to anyone and everyone he can find. People on the street, strangers in a market, school kids, the elderly etc.. He believes that with his ukulele, ''U-KE can change the world!'' He spreads the ukulele vibe to people all around the world. he loves nothing more in life than to make people smile.

W.H.A.T. is a photographic portrait project that aims to list the faces of nowadays young people who are represented as the heroes of Renaissance and Flemish pictures with their motionless and expressionless glance which doesn’t reveal an emotion but is looking for an answer. Uncertainty of social roles and values is the common feeling during a historical and political period characterized by a significant crisis.

Tsering Jampa (1955) fled Tibet and the Chinese repression with her parents at the age of 4. She grew up in India. After graduating in Geography she moved to The Netherlands, and started her work as an activist. Since 1984 she is dedicating her life to the Tibetan cause, for this giving up a normal family life. She has been member of the UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization), chairwoman of the Tibet Support Group Netherlands, and is since 1999 executive director of the International Campaign for Tibet (Europe).

Back in the days of the old republic there was Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia.

What kind of superpowers do these super heroes have? Certainly they have some, but it's more about eccentric powers and ridiculous attributes. Their exagerated development can be confusing to us, as it has certainly confused them. They are superheroes with a low rank of action can act at book launchings, artistic encounters and other events. Born lazy, birthed by brutal effort, these superheroes do not pay homage to brute force, nor do electromagnetic pyrotechnics to us. They just give hope.
And - just as hope - they are a bit naive, and just as naivete, a bit ridiculous.

Every Christmas eve, in Milan, a group of volunteers become Santa Claus for a fund raising project organized by UILDM, Italian Union for the Fight against Muscular Dystrophy. Santa Claus is the oldest living superhero and a long lasting symbol of charity and altruism.

In the mountainous jungles of Eastern Burma, the Karen National Liberated Army (KNLA) fight for the survival of their people against Burma’s notorious military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Numbering around five thousand, the KNLA face a 400,000 strong enemy. The Karen are the largest of Burma’s ethnic minority hill tribes who are oppressed by the SPDC. The SPDC rules by force and has been described by the United Nations as one of the worst violators of human rights of our time.