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Citizen Four
Read more: Citizen Four“CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate…
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“Rice Bunny” (米兔) #MeToo Code on Chinese Social Media
Read more: “Rice Bunny” (米兔) #MeToo Code on Chinese Social MediaWomen in China are covertly resisting government crackdowns on discussions over their Me Too movement with a clever workaround. The phrase “rice bunny” (米兔), pronounced as “mi tu,” has popped up on social media networks after censors removed posts that…
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“That’s not art it’s Victorian porn!” – how one small Barbie doll took on the art world
Read more: “That’s not art it’s Victorian porn!” – how one small Barbie doll took on the art worldMuseums and art galleries are not usually the sites of feminist political protest. Yet over the past couple of years, before the lockdown, gallery visitors all over the UK had noticed a small, determined activist whose modus operandi is “Small…
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Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path
Read more: Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive pathTennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he’d be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he’d be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at…
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Rare protests against China’s ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across country
Read more: Rare protests against China’s ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across countryProtests erupted in cities and on campuses across China this weekend as frustrated and outraged citizens took to the streets in a stunning wave of demonstrations against the government’s “zero covid” policy and the leaders enforcing it. Residents in Shanghai,…
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Monopoly Man
Read more: Monopoly ManDuring Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the Equifax data breach, a protester dressed as the “Monopoly Man” from the board game photobombed Equifax CEO Richard Smith’s testimony. While the CEO discussed his company’s breach that affected 145.5 million people, the protester…
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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactBy Lauren Hersh, with Katie Cappiello, Artistic Director, The Arts Effect. It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve…
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36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA: New York Estuary
Read more: 36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA: New York EstuaryA site-specific, community-engaged process: Sarah and NYC collaborators gathered at the water’s edge every month from September 2020 (when the work was initially scheduled to take place but was postponed due to the pandemic) until September 2022, to build Kin…
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Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro Valle
Read more: Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro ValleIn 2009, conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demoted the publicly-funded Italian Theatre Insitute (or ETI) to “disposable” status, hacking funding for the arts considerably. ETI promoted Italian companies abroad, managed the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Duse theatre in…
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Camión / Galeria de Arte “Gente de Corabastos”
Read more: Camión / Galeria de Arte “Gente de Corabastos”Se sacuden la desconfianza y entran al camión. En él no hay frutas, ni verduras, ni carnes. El piso, igual que el techo y las paredes están inmaculadas y pintadas de blanco. Solo ellos y algunos compañeros inmortalizados en fotos…
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
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Read more: Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…
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AIDS Memorial Quilt
Read more: AIDS Memorial QuiltIn June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to…