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The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most
Read more: The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the MostA human tide swept through Paris last month for the type of event France knows only too well — a protest. Union leaders led the march, awash in a multicolored sea of flags. Demonstrators shouted fiery slogans. Clashes with the…
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#manifestjustice
Read more: #manifestjusticeIn the wake of the amount of police brutality that has been occurring since the dawn of the damn police, an institution that began as a way to find escaped slaves, across the United States, #manisfestjustice chooses to make its…
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Degrees of My Deaf Rage
Read more: Degrees of My Deaf RageChristine Sun Kim’s series Degrees of My Deaf Rage is a series of charcoal drawings of charts that depict the artist’s varying degrees of what she calls “deaf rage.” These frustrations are categorized by situations: deaf rage in the art…
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Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice
Read more: Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice“Artist Andrea Bowers creates powerful works addressing immigration, gender violence, and environmental justice. Her large-scale drawing ‘No Olvidado’ memorializes migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to the human cost of border policies.” Bowers artworks and site specific…
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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim
Read more: May Day Occupation at GuggenheimAt noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s…
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Spec Ops: The Line
Read more: Spec Ops: The LineOften in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they…
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The Folded Map Project
Read more: The Folded Map ProjectThe Folded Map Project is a project by Tonika Lewis Johnson, a photographer and community activist from Chicago. The project aims to investigate and change the racial and economic segregation that affects the city and its residents. The project started…
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Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from Abroad
Read more: Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from AbroadChuu Wai Nyein felt an overwhelming sense of guilt when she first arrived in Paris from Myanmar at the end of April. “I was pushed to leave the country, but it was not how I wanted to leave,” says the…
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826 Valencia
Read more: 826 Valencia826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps…
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#BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?
Read more: #BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?Michelle Obama tweeted her own portrait holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls and soon countless celebrities echoed this meme online. Throughout a week, this trending hashtag had been turned into a social-media supernova. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign spurred by online sharing brought…
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French Farmers Throw Sh*t Fit
Read more: French Farmers Throw Sh*t Fit“Energy costs surged with the Feb. 2022 launch by Russia of full-scale war in Ukraine and hit hard for farmers reliant on tractors, harvesters and other fuel-guzzling equipment. Prices also soared for other inputs that underpin intensive farming, notably fertilizers.…
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Ticketing Jessica Lappin
Read more: Ticketing Jessica LappinThe initiators collaborated with the Street Vendor Project (SVP) of the Urban Justice Center to campaign against New York City Council Member Jessica Lappin’s 2010 law project. The bill, intended to revoke permits issued to street vendor trucks if they…