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Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia?
Read more: Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia?Whose Utopia? is a color film which is 19 minutes 58 seconds long. It was originally commissioned by the Siemens Arts Program back in 2005. The projector-style video is based on the work and social lives of assembly line workers…
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Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump
Read more: Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald TrumpThe video shows an actor as “your drunk neighbor” lipsyncing to real soundbites from Donald Trump. The artists who made the video claim, “If you close your eyes while listening to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, you can see and smell…
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Global Citizen Festival Expands to India
Read more: Global Citizen Festival Expands to IndiaJay Z, Coldplay and the Bollywood star Aamir Khan will join forces in India this fall as the Global Citizen Festival expands internationally. The charity concert, overseen by the Global Poverty Project, will be held at the MMRDA Grounds in…
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Daniel Defoe’s “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”
Read more: Daniel Defoe’s “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”“The Shortest Way with the Dissenters;” Or, “Proposals for the Establishment of the Church” is a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1702. Defoe was prompted to write the pamphlet by the increased hostility towards Dissenters in the wake…
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Sing for the Climate
Read more: Sing for the ClimateSing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium. More than 80.000 people in more than 180 Belgian cities and communities sang the song “Do it Now”, urging…
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Chinese gather and lay flowers despite heavy security as former Premier Li Keqiang is laid to rest
Read more: Chinese gather and lay flowers despite heavy security as former Premier Li Keqiang is laid to restHEFEI, China (AP) — Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people gathered Thursday near a state funeral home in Beijing as China’s former second-ranking leader, Li Keqiang, was put to rest, while a steady stream of mourners showed their respects at the…
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Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and Beyond
Read more: Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and BeyondThis protest installation was first used in 2016 at Standing Rock when the community banded together to protect the Missouri River from a Dakota Access Pipeline. The mirror shields can protect against non-lethal deterrents like rubber bullets that may be…
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Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)
Read more: Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)In Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)”, Ana Teresa confronted the fence between the United States and Mexico by putting on her black dress and heels and painting the fence sky blue. On first viewing, the performance makes a simple…
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The Guerrilla Girls and the “HORROR ON THE NATIONAL MALL!”
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls and the “HORROR ON THE NATIONAL MALL!”“The Washington Post” asked the Guerrilla Girls to create a full page for their section on feminism and art, which was published on April 22, 2007. The Guerrilla Girls’ page contains an image of a fake tabloid, called “NOT OK!…
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Global Jars of Joy
Read more: Global Jars of JoyOur project aims to show people that joy can be an act of resistance and resilience in the face of global justice issues when harnessed in the right way. The sharing of joy can also act as a connector in…
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Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese Textbooks
Read more: Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese TextbooksIn November 2015, Chinese LGBT activist Chen Qiuyan met with government officials in Beijing after months of campaigning to have the Ministry of Education remove textbooks which identify homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry…
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the bike infrastructure agenda exposed
Read more: the bike infrastructure agenda exposedIt has been a long and exhausting battle for the bike activists in Puebla one of the cities in Mexico. Collectives and activist groups have long pushed for including bike infrastructure around the city, in a horizontal, democratic way. They…