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The Public Market Token Program
Read more: The Public Market Token ProgramThrough the Market Token program, wooden tokens are used as market currency, making it possible for customers with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food-stamp benefits to get fresh, healthy, affordable foods at the Market. Customers stop at the Market office…
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Tamms Year Ten
Read more: Tamms Year TenTamms Year Ten is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition of artists, prisoners, men formerly incarcerated in Tamms, family members and other people of conscience. In 2008, at the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Tamms supermax prison, the group launched…
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The T Party
Read more: The T PartyEven if the idea of interactive theater gives you hives, you can still find amusement, and perhaps enlightenment, at Forum Theatre’s “The T Party,” a bold and inventive exploration of gender identity by local writer-director Natsu Onoda Power. The play…
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Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Read more: Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi versePranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’ The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in…
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NannyVan
Read more: NannyVanReversing decades of discrimination set into place when New Deal labor laws intentionally excluded domestic workers, New York State in 2010 passed the very first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Hawaii and California followed soon after with other states soon…
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MicCheckWallSt Fourth of July Money Drop
Read more: MicCheckWallSt Fourth of July Money DropOn July 4, 2012, several members of MicCheckWallSt, a subsidiary group of Seattle’s larger Occupy Wall Street that formed in December, 2011, anonymously checked into a room at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in Downtown Seattle. From the 20th floor they…
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Somerville Stock Exchange
Read more: Somerville Stock Exchange“The Fine Art Of Investing” Spare Change News, October 19, 2012. Cambridge MA. It’s an interesting gamble. One of the most relevant fields of study today is Emergence Theory, the science of human cooperation. The Somerville Stock Exchange, an interactive…
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Unity, Democracy and Courage
Read more: Unity, Democracy and CourageOne of the most pressing questions before us in the United States now is how to resolve the tension between our personal visions and needs, on the one hand, and the demands of being a member of a community, on…
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Pilobolus Vote Project
Read more: Pilobolus Vote ProjectThe Pilobolus Dance company, famous for their beautiful aesthetics of shadow play formed out of the dancer’s bodies, started the #PilobolusVOTEproject, encouraging people to form the words VOTE with whatever material they had around them, take a picture of it…
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Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Read more: Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on LesbosCharities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who’ve died trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol…
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Invisible Homeless
Read more: Invisible HomelessArtist Luke Jerram created a genderless sleeping figure made of glass lying on a piece of cardboard and exhibited in the streets of London. The artist said in an interview “For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there…
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Beili Liu’s ‘The Mending Project’: Weaving Connections in a World Frayed by Time and Culture
Read more: Beili Liu’s ‘The Mending Project’: Weaving Connections in a World Frayed by Time and CultureIn the broad context of the modern world of art, the work of Beili Liu has always seemed extraordinary in visual terms and deeply profound in thematic development. Born in China and living in the United States, much of her…