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Groups Build Parks From Parking Spaces
Read more: Groups Build Parks From Parking SpacesOriginally a project of San Francisco-based art and design studio Rebar, Park(ing) Day participants from Tucson to Tehran set up temporary installations ranging from simple unrolled sod to art galleries and even free health clinics. “In urban centers around the…
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Ghosts of Union Square – The Contested City
Read more: Ghosts of Union Square – The Contested City“This project took aim at a public relations campaign produced by The Union Square Partnership, a local Business Improvement District (BID) attempting to privatize the north end of NYC’s Union Square park and install a high-end celebrity chef restaurant. They…
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Daily Bread
Read more: Daily BreadGregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — travelled around the world asking kids to keep a journal of everything they ate in…
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Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet Earth
Read more: Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet EarthMessage 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…
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A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal
Read more: A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removalThis wonderful campaign of Earth Action Network against mountaintop removal coal mining focused not on the invulnerable mining companies, but on the banks that financed them – and especially PNC, which based its growth model on recruiting university students. It…
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Will Work for Empty Wallets
Read more: Will Work for Empty WalletsWill Work for Empty Wallets is a community outreach project dedicated to the millions of unemployed United States Citizens. Over 3,000 empty wallets were collected nationwide with the help of the Georgia Department of Labor to construct an 11’x21′ American…
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Mama’s Day Our Way
Read more: Mama’s Day Our WayBy Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…
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#FreeTheNipple Icelandic Style
Read more: #FreeTheNipple Icelandic StyleIt all started when an Icelandic girl took off her top on Twitter in a bid to promote sexual equality, only for her to be verbally attacked by some male Icelandic tit troll. Despite both comments being deleted, Twitter was…
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The end of the world as we know it !
Read more: The end of the world as we know it !Preparing for the Corporate take over of the Pacific Rim. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LW-TEHIScvw External sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LW-TEHIScvw
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Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Read more: Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest artThis weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. To memorialize the occasion, artists across the country are…
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Lines
Read more: LinesLocated off the west coast of Scotland are the Outer Hebrides, an island chain where Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho decided to install their piece, Lines. The installation is composed of lines of light wrapped around buildings or…
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China’s censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media
Read more: China’s censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state mediaThe Guardian By Tania Branigan In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk. One of the clearest is: no gossip about top political leaders, their families or internal party affairs. But just as…