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Same Curriculum, Different opportunities

Practitioner:
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation

Created a platform to showcase disparities that are therein in public basic schools verses the private schools. Simple a call to duty bearers to act on the deplorable physical learning environment existing in the public schools , because the environment…

Reverse Graffiti

Practitioner:
Paul ‘Moose’ Curtis

Reverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They…

For Once, Don’t Do It

Practitioner:
Nike

Text by Seth Cohen – On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call…

For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera

Practitioner:
Rachel Liang, Shen Lu, Wenxin Fan, WSJ

Several nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy. Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid…

Transforming Lives at Kainbach Nursing Home with WochenKlausur’s Initiative

Practitioner:
WochenKlausur

On the occasion of the European Cultural Capital Graz 2003, WochenKlausur developed a year-long program of activities for older people with severe mental disabilities. The object was to offer them opportunities for a change of their daily routine inside the…

César Chávez and the Migrants

Practitioner:
Teatro SEA

The play celebrates the life and legacy of the Mexican-American labor activist César Chávez. His early life as well as his partnership with Dolores Huerta, activism with the National Farm Workers Association, the 1968 grape boycott, and his ongoing commitment…

The Pianists of Ukraine

Practitioner:
Artists

In Kiev, clashes between protestors and police have persisted since December. Blood has been shed, and the political stability of Ukraine remains uncertain. During late January and early February, the opposition began to play music (from pianos) in front of…

put yourself in their shoes

Practitioner:
avaaz

Thousands of empty shoes replace marchers at cancelled climate protest in Paris After French authorities cancelled two climate protests in the wake of the Paris attacks, thousands of would-be marchers kept empty shoes in their place. The moving installation coincides…

Dark Side of the Prism

Practitioner:
Justin Blinder

“Dark Side of the Prism” is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings. The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency’s on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.…

How This Indigenous Model Is Using His Platform for Climate Activism

Practitioner:
Haatepah Clearbear

Indigenous designers often use fashion to celebrate their culture and raise awareness around key issues affecting their community. Now, the spirit has come to the modeling world. Haatepah Clearbear is a full-time model, based in Los Angeles, who is using…

Silent vigil at Saudi Embassy to Free Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

Practitioner:
Front Line Defenders

Former colleagues of Abdulhadi Al Khawaja from Front Line Defenders today held a silent vigil at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Dublin to urge the King of Saudi Arabia to use his influence with Bahrain to enable Abdulhadi to…

Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice

Practitioner:
Marisela Escobedo

Marisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t…