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Tate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collection
Read more: Tate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collectionTate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collection: Liberate Tate, an art collective who object to BP sponsorship, have offered the 16 metre turbine blade to the gallery A 1.5 tonne, 16.5 metre-long wind turbine blade carried last month…
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Shell Skull Stig: Art Not Oil Galleries
Read more: Shell Skull Stig: Art Not Oil GalleriesThe group Art Not Oil did a campaign to raise awareness about the oil industry, and their funding of Art. “Art Not Oil has campaigned against Big Oil cultural sponsorship since 2004. It has also encouraged artists – and would-be…
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Take A Closer Look
Read more: Take A Closer LookBellefaire JCB, an organization that provides care, education, and advocacy to better the emotional, physical and intellectual well-being of children, young adults and families has launched Take A Closer Look, a campaign which aims to raise public awareness about the…
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Krewe of Dead Pelicans
Read more: Krewe of Dead PelicansIn May 2010, as oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continued to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, growing outrage from residents in New Orleans at the response by government agents and corporate executives, opened up new horizons of political…
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The “marriage effect”
Read more: The “marriage effect”Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The “marriage effect” clause sees convicted rapists given…
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‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in China
Read more: ‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in ChinaHONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai.…
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Marxism will give health to the sick
Read more: Marxism will give health to the sickTo mark the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx, PL Henderson offers an appreciation of one of Frida Kahlo’s greatest paintings, which was heavily influenced by Marx’s creative thinking. One of the last paintings Frida Kahlo ever created was entitled ´Marxism…
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AUSSIE Posters
Read more: AUSSIE PostersI am traveling Australia sticking up 1000 poster of Monga Khan, the Aussie folk hero…. The photograph of Monga Khan was taken 100 years ago in Australia. He was one of thousands of people who applied for exemptions to the…
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Nail Transphobia
Read more: Nail TransphobiaOver the past few years, the public’s understanding of the issues that transgender people face has grown exponentially, but many people have never actually spoken to a transgender person. To help dispel common myths and preconceptions, 23-year-old trans activist Charlie…
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HERE I AM festival.
Read more: HERE I AM festival.Four prominent Australian artists – Aretha Brown, Claire Martin, Kaff-eine and Jane Gillings – will gather in Canberra this Sunday, to discuss their art, activism and ideas, marking the closing weekend of Kambri’s HERE I AM festival. The Art Activism…
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Kiss of Love
Read more: Kiss of LoveThe Kiss of Love campaign in India is a non violent protest against moral policing. It started out as a Facebook page but gained momentum across India when a mob of conservative, right-wing party members attacked and demolished a coffee…
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Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance
Read more: Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistanceIf, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective…