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John Luther Adams: Inuksuit – A Border-Crossing Presentation
Read more: John Luther Adams: Inuksuit – A Border-Crossing PresentationThe San Diego Symphony performs John Luther Adams piece “Inuksuit” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Premiered in the Canadian Rockies, John Luther Adams’s outdoor masterpiece, Inuksuit, is a mirror of the landscape in which it is performed. We’ll play the piece…
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Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists
Read more: Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activistsTwo weeks ago, the University released the final version of its diversity and inclusion action plan, which could not have been compiled without the exhaustive efforts of students throughout last semester. “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes…
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Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps “They are stealing our jobs”
Read more: Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps “They are stealing our jobs”Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition. External sources:…
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Water Is Life
Read more: Water Is LifeThe Overpass Light Brigade (Milwaukee, WI), has been working with Idle No More (WI) in order to give visibility to the cultural and environmental costs of opening up Northern Wisconsin to iron mining. The proposal will soon be voted on…
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Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social change
Read more: Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social changeBy Dr. S. O’Sullivan and C. McCausland On an otherwise unremarkable day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat on a public bus. Parks purposely broke the law. As a black woman living in Alabama, she was required…
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A New Kind of Barbie
Read more: A New Kind of Barbie“Many people have criticized Barbie dolls for their unrealistic proportions, claiming that they give young girls a warped idea of what beauty should be. To tackle this problem, Nikolay Lamm created digital visualizations of a regular-sized “Barbie” doll, hoping to…
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Cartoons Against Corruption
Read more: Cartoons Against CorruptionCartoons Against Corruption is a cartoon based campaign by political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi to support anti corruption movement in India, best known for sharp hard hitting anti corruption cartoons. Using national emblems and current political news, Trivedi creates cartoons that…
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Freedom riders
Read more: Freedom ridersThe first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren’t invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC…
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Operation Christmas – Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla members
Read more: Operation Christmas – Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla membersColombian ad agency Lowe SSP3 is starting a Christmas-themed campaign to entice guerrilla fighters out of the jungle to turn themselves in. The agency may have created an advertising-to-guerrillas award category after winning a gold Cannes Lion in the outdoor…
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Beautiful Women’s Rights Walk
Read more: Beautiful Women’s Rights WalkIn 2012, the 24-year-old feminist activist Xiao Meili launched the “Beautiful Women’s Rights Walk” anti-sexual assault activity. She set off from Beijing in mid-September and passed through Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other cities along the way to reach the destination…
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The Sexist of the Year
Read more: The Sexist of the YearThis week’s Swede of the Week is Tomas Gunnarsson, whose quest to find Sweden’s “Sexist of the Year” has found a viral following across the country. He says Swedes who buy into the ‘most equal country in the world’ label…
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The Police are Present
Read more: The Police are PresentIf you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid’s Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight. Flanking the Marqués de Casa Riera stood 30 neatly parked cars equipped with flashing police lights. But…