continue expanding, for artists such as andrew it remains an exclusive club a quick reminder, you can keep up-to-date with all the news on our website. there it is on our screen, the address aljazeera.com [ ♪ ] thank you for joining us on "america tonight", i'm joie chen. this is a time of year we are supposed to commemorate the achievements of women. international women's day, over 100 years old, and black history month. and while the achievements of

women in america and around the world are great. there are great challenges. we focus on young women in india that suffered attacks, but who will not be silenced. i look apt india, brought to us by a

film-maker.

the extraordinary strength of the young women captured. we'll speak to the producer about her profile of the sh. >> -- sheeros and other >>it's crazy money that you can make here. it's a ticking time bomb. >>do you know what chemicals have been in that tank? >> my big brother didn't wake up the next day. al jazeera america's... >> today they will be arrested. >>they're firing canisters of gas at us.

>> we have to get out of here.

[ ♪ ] before the break, we met powerful young women, whose determination to live their lives fully, despite the pain of vicious acid attacks in communities in india. the film-maker and her partner brought us the stories of the sheeros and other powerful women over the last couple of years. we are delighted to have them here in the studio to talk about their work. it was moving to see the young women - and they are very young, and you are struck by the sense that acid burn victims - it's disfiguring, but there's a beauty in the young women. >> definitely, and that is what we reflect in the film, and that

it's reflected beyond a physical appearance. there's something beautiful about women that face a society, that culturally is demeaning towards women, not generally but in their circumstances. they were up against a fight before anything happened to them with the as it attacks. for them to come out of this with preserve veerns and the ability to fight back in opening the cafe, and just buying groceries on the streets was tremendous to experience and to be a part of. >> you were there with - you tried to remain physically close to them as well. as they walked to the streets, this must be difficult. >> definitely, it's hard for people to understand that. after we turn off the cameras, the girls come back to their lives. they are faced with harassment on the streets. people staring and laughing and asking what happened to them.

i saw a particular situation where there's someone asking the girls if their teeth are fake. they are facing a lot of, you know, problems on the street daily, not just of harassment. but self-esteem. how do you come out of this without being shattered by your every day people staring, laughing at you. i felt it when you walked with them. i didn't believe people had it in their hearts to understand that them walking in the sunlight. in front of the tajikistan mahal was a beautiful image, i felt for them. i tried to be as close to girls that i cover to under where they are coming from. even though i can never understand what it is. >> you and reed in your work have worked with women around the world. stories. >> yes. as a woman myself, i think that we are definitely under reported as women, as women ever colour

around the world, and the global south and third world countries, we are more under-represented in the fact that, you know, women are looked at from oh, look, this woman is struggling. she's in the country. what about the context of this woman, fist of fury that won a gracie award profiled a young boxer, a 15-year-old girl in the climate of the gang rape. we tried to cover women's stories. they are under-reported. it's a beautiful and powerful thing. women give birth, we are in women's history month. women play a tremendous role in society, whether it's war, conflict, elections. i think the voices are not heard enough. that's why we tend to focus on the stories. >> in a moment we'll watch another of your films, and that had to do with women in washington d.c. standing up to oppression here?

>> yes, that was an incredible story. i was drawn to the story because i went to see a numbers of mothers whose seconds had been murdered by the police. it was conducted by pink women for piece, i remember feeling emotional watching the mothers speak. i have two brothers that could be mistaken for being black. i can't imagine my mum being one of these women. when i found the women fighting against this, who were mothers and fighting for the future with voracity and power, i was drawn for that and understood that their struggle is related to my own mother's struggle. we'll look again at the fight back from the documentary film-makers. appreciate your being here. >> we'll talk about giving voice to the fight for justice up

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change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. al jazeera america. as we heard before the break, many stories brought to us by film-makers gee handwritten and lindsay involved injustice in the world, and focused on the power of women rising close to home. very close to the "america tonight" home in washington d.c. where the mothers and daughters of a current still rights movement in america were found. giving voice to "black lives matter." >> when the trayvon martin

decision came out i went into severe depression, i felt a sense of hopelessness. it was severe. i could see black people walking on the street and see them as victims, it was another formation that black lives don't matter, and the vault u of my sons and husband, that they don't matter. >> i'm a wife and mother and active in the movement in d.c. they were two different children entirely. my son is very much a kid, aloof to a lot of what is going on. with my daughter mali she's on the opposite end. she's aware of what is going on, she's with me most of the time. she's with me most of the time.

actions or things i'm doing, most of the time she's there. i asked so what do you know about the police. solomon says if you take something they put your hands away. and i asked mali, and she said almost immediately. the police kill everyone. [ ♪ ] host mackses that i see, that i'm a part of, actions that are disruptive, and shutting things downing, it's black women organising, planning and we mean action. in many places we are the better communicators, we don't have an ego that goes along with it. we can connect with the sisters, and knowing that that is my sister, if it happens to her, it happens to me. to have my daughter sit sit in the space as well. it's very

powerful. [ ♪ ] i'm tony sanders, i work at a bank in d.c. georgetown. i love doing it, i love being here in the revolution. i'm one of the founding members. it's a small group. very dedicated. the smaller the group is, the more dedicated they are. >> i consider what we are doing radical. lots of people call us militant. that's okay. i met erica. there was a call of action that went out. it was a group of young black people that wanted to do something more than tweet. >> the effectiveness of

organising in secret allows us to accomplish a tax, something that the police can't prepare and stop reactions. they are in a space to put pressure on people. not let them get to their jobs or senate learning, whatever it is that we can disrupt. they see it as happening. you never know when it doesn't pop up. >> they don't know it. but what will happen is we'll shut it down. we'll have a group of folks on the outside of chinatown marching around while we go inside the movie theatre. inside the theatre we'll purchase tickets to chris rock's movie, walk over the exodus and shut it down. propaganda. >> no more

lies. [ chanting ] we felt we made a difference. if only one person understood where we were coming from. we and the job. life was not going on. it wasn't business as usual. you'll have to replay that movie and refund money to people. and i saw my comrades standing down cheering as we came down. it gave me a different rush of energy. all right, keep it moving. everyone fall out. i yelled fall out, fall out. we did a massive movement right

there. >> we disrupt your movie, it is full of lives. we were kings and queens. you have us there as slaves. we are sake of the lives. [ chants ] >>. >> the national march will take place. i don't think al sharpton will give us his platform to yet young people, targeted leaders, who have an uprising in the country follows. they have to have a platform. ultimately, if they are speaking, we shut it down. if you are with us down. meet

us at the march. >> al sharpton is leading it. ultimately the people. we need to find out what voices they want to elevate. that's what my tension is. there are people from ferguson, some stayed with me. and others are in a hotel nearby. we are making sure that their voices are elevated. that there's a platform. that there is not anyone who is a leader on the stage. and ultimately it needs to be shut down. >> at this point, what we are realising is that they are not going to let anyone be at ferguson state. our mission is to take over the stage, if we leave, it's a narrative. and we are leaving out the essential part. we have erica rounding up folks in ferguson. she has media passes to give to them. >> this is bullshit.

it's a show for the media. >> you know about sister. what i had near... [ chants ] >> i'm from st. louis missouri. >>. >> this is about our lives, when we talk about end game, it's not

really like intricate. we want to live like everyone else does. we want to go and play without fear of them being harassed by the police. them. >> that is "america tonight". please come back. tonight" tomorrow. away. i'm ali velshi "on target" tonight. avoiding another financial collapse, the real choices your elected officials will be forced to make when the next recession hits. who you vote for matters more than you think. america's economy is doing well even if turbulence in the rest of the world is causing anxious among economists.