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Make Them Visible
Read more: Make Them VisibleIf a family member posed as a homeless person, would you recognize him or her? That’s the question a new campaign — Make Them Visible — is asking. In a video produced by ad agency Silver + Partners and Smuggler…
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Turf the Turf Eco Garden Bike Tour
Read more: Turf the Turf Eco Garden Bike TourTurf the Turf hopes to inspire you to reconsider your front lawn by sharing existing examples of creative uses on a fun bike tour around the city of Kelowna. There are many options, such as xeriscaping (using native plants), front…
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From a Universe of Trash
Read more: From a Universe of TrashFrom a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope By STEPHEN HOLDEN “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s…
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Sit-in at Veterans Memorial
Read more: Sit-in at Veterans MemorialThe Veterans Memorial in New York City, located at 55 Water Street, closes every day at 10pm. However, veterans often find themselves wanting to come to the memorial at all hours of the day and night. The organization Veterans for…
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Former NRA president tricked into gun violence prevention video
Read more: Former NRA president tricked into gun violence prevention videoA gun violence prevention group has released videos in which they trick famous pro-gun figures into addressing a sea of empty chairs, representing children and teenagers who were shot and killed before they could graduate from high school. Change the…
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Read more: A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In BangladeshA group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most…
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AIDS Quilt Goes Digital
Read more: AIDS Quilt Goes DigitalWith more than 48,000 panels and 94,000 names, the AIDS quilt is a constantly growing testament to the deadly toll the disease has taken on the world. At roughly 1.3 million square feet, it is so large that it can’t…
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Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territory
Read more: Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territoryThis week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. The protest comes on the heels of the successful Wells Fargo shareholder event in San Francisco, where thousands of protesters shut down the conference, and…
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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Read more: New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / BlackmailThe prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the…
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Abandoned Love
Read more: Abandoned LoveUtilizing Tumblr, Peyton Fulford crafted Abandoned Love as a participatory art project with other users on Tumblr’s social network. Asking her followers “to send phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own…
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Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on Iran
Read more: Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on IranActivists have started an online campaign to pressure US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to lift sanctions on Iran to help it contain the spread of coronavirus. Coronavirus: Are US sanctions hurting Iran’s response to the pandemic? The hashtag #EndCOVIDSanctions was…
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‘It’s critical the message makes it to the mainstream’: Nasa climate scientist speaks on his tearful protest
Read more: ‘It’s critical the message makes it to the mainstream’: Nasa climate scientist speaks on his tearful protestA Nasa scientist who went viral over his tearful protest on the climate crisis has told The Independent that his activism comes from a sense of desperation to “find something that actually has an impact and moves the needle”. Peter…