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Rolezinho Movement

This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…

ChallengeAccepted: empowering women

Practitioner:
global online users, Women in Turkey

#ChallengeAccepted, also known as the Challenge Accepted campaign, is an Instagram tagged challenge as well as an awareness campaign on empowering women involving sharing posts of black-and-white selfies. The Instagram challenge was launched alongside another hashtag campaign #WomenSupportingWomen with the…

Chinese Artist Xu Bing’s Phoenix takes flight at New York

Practitioner:
Xu Bing

Xu Bing, the internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, has brought his “Phoenix” installation to the majestic nave of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The two phoenixes, both Feng, the male, and Huang, the…

Wheatfield – A Confrontation

Practitioner:
Agnes Denes

Architectural Digest: Agnes Denes’s pioneering artwork, whether it’s her cerebral conceptual pieces mining her deep understanding of mathematics and philosophy, or her literally down-to-earth land art, has always had a prophetic quality. And her prescient 1982 Wheatfield – A Confrontation,…

After their slogan was outlawed, pro-Palestinian activists turned to a karaoke classic

Practitioner:
Pro Palestinian Activists

Brisbane, Australia — The flash mob descended on Brisbane’s city square, wearing double denim and blond wigs in the style of a legendary Australian singer as they danced with wild abandon to one of his 1980s hits. In an unlikely…

Daughter of China

Chen Boer’s first heroine film, which she co-wrote and directed, was “Daughter of China,” about female soldiers in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. They didn’t have much filmed material at the time, but as a feminist, Chen Boer clearly wanted…

Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet Earth

Practitioner:
cannabis activists, Cannabis friends, Cannabis Social clubs

Message to the world. We are legalizing CANNABIS everywhere in the world, please support us. We are making PICTURES showing us as cannabis smokers or growers, and supporting the legalization. In France, the movement becomes bigger and bigger, check this…

ARMS DEALERS ON TRIAL

Practitioner:
Arms Dealers on Trial

A group of women arrested at the DSEI arms fair in 2013 have begun private prosecution proceedings against arms companies who exhibited illegal weapons at the fair. French company Magforce International and Chinese company Tianjin MyWay International Trading will be…

Tortuguita Billboard

Practitioner:
Weelaunee Defense NYC

MAJOR NYC BILLBOARD TAKEN OVER IN HONOR OF TORTUGUITA, PART OF COORDINATED DAY OF RESISTANCE 1/18/2025 “This weekend, thousands of people across the world organized events and took collective action in honor of Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán who was murdered by…

Michelle Wolf got it just right

Practitioner:
Michelle Wolf

“Thank you!” That’s how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer’s declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was “a disgrace.” Her response is instructive: To Wolf, an insult from Spicer is an accolade…

Coursera

Practitioner:
Andrew Ng, Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that partners with top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the top universities are educating millions…

Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land

Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land

Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land is a series of black and white comic strip that takes a sharp sniper-shots at India’s myriad idiosyncrasies. There is a new strip available every Monday. Despite the…