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Reverse pay-per-view!
Read more: Reverse pay-per-view!Since summer 2011, FARM’s activists have been paying people $1 each to watch a 4-minute video depicting the inherent cruelties of raising animals for food. This tactic, known as “pay-per-view,” has led 80% of participants to reduce meat consumption, sparing…
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Chinese Rock Music in 1990s for Freedom
Read more: Chinese Rock Music in 1990s for FreedomThe rise of rock and roll in the late 1980 was largely associated with the student movements taking place at the same time. Cui Jian, considered by many to be the godfather of Chinese rock, even performed for the students…
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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Read more: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock MusicalHair: The history of the first rock musical by Eric Andrews-Katz – SGN Contributing Writer From its very first moment, the musical Hair was a thing of controversy. From its conception as a staged musical protest to the show’s eventual…
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Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.
Read more: Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.“Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.” is a short web comic by Maki Naro explaining “The risks, the misinformation, and the science behind history’s greatest life saver.” Fighting disinformation about vaccines is difficult. Hundreds of sites with bogus information have…
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Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”
Read more: Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history. For Nick Cave, the…
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Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Read more: Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in HaitiHaiti is a conservative society where Roman Catholicism shapes many of its social norms. Patriarchal norms, says Haitian feminist Pascale Solages, co-founder and general coordinator of feminist organization Nègès Mawon, have informed its strict views on abortion. In Haiti, women…
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52 School Buses to Ted Cruz’s Home – Carrying Items from School Shooting Victims
Read more: 52 School Buses to Ted Cruz’s Home – Carrying Items from School Shooting VictimsA mile-long convoy of empty school buses drove through Texas on Thursday, on a mission to get to Sen. Ted Cruz’s home. Each empty seat of this mobile art installation by Change The Ref founder Manuel Oliver represents over four…
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LAMP
Read more: LAMPvia Detroit Future Youth: “Detroit Summer is [a] multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit that has been working to transform communities through youth leadership, creativity and collective action since 1992. The Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) of Detroit Summer is a…
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AIDS
Read more: AIDSPepe Espaliú was an artist from Cordoba who made various art from paintings to sculptures and public actions. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1990, and up until 1993 when he died, he focused on drawing attention to those affected…
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The Clothesline Project
Read more: The Clothesline ProjectAccording to the Men’s Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam war. During that same period of time, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them. In the summer of 1990, that…
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How Unemployed People See the World
Read more: How Unemployed People See the WorldEveryone knows that unemployment is one of the most serious problems that plagues society today. Yet, even though this problem is widely acknowledged, it remains difficult for many people to relate to and truly understand the personal hardships that unemployment…
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Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art
Read more: Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public ArtHuff Post Latino Politics The Huffington Post While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence. Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico…