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Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells Fargo
Read more: Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells FargoOn the eve of Wells Fargo’s annual shareholders meeting in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday, home defenders, students, community groups, and activists in ten cities took peaceful action against the bank. Petitions signed by thousands of people were delivered to…
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50 People in 40 Square Meters
Read more: 50 People in 40 Square MetersIn a case of voter fraud, an investigation revealed that the party in power had won fifty votes from the residents of a single apartment. A group of activists reproduced the apartment in a downtown square and invited 50 people…
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Day Care Center Sit-In
Read more: Day Care Center Sit-InLow-income tenants at a public housing project in Rhode Island — many of them working mothers with young children — wanted an affordable day care center in their building. With petitions, pickets, and letters to the city council, they built…
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An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.
Read more: An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.Omelia Contadina was born out of the concern of JR and director Alice Rohrwacher for the difficulties encountered by many small farmers and inhabitants of the Alfina plateau, in Italy. Alice Rohrwacher explains the origins of the project: “Last autumn,…
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Break Down
Read more: Break DownMichael Landy made an inventory of every single thing he owned: every item of furniture, every book, every work of art, every article of clothing and one Saab car. Cataloguing all his possessions took a year to complete and the…
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Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble
Read more: Wyrd: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble“Twelve members of the ‘Reclaim Shakespeare Company’ staged an unexpected protest performance inside the ‘Shakespeare: Staging the World’ exhibition at the British Museum. At 3.30pm, a dozen members of the “Reclaim Shakespeare Company” theatrical action group launched a surprise piece…
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Inviting Strangers and Homeless people for Dinner
Read more: Inviting Strangers and Homeless people for DinnerBrother Gao are two China artists. Their works are aims at reflecting the reality of Chinese society in an artistic and critical view. In 2003, the brothers held an event to invite many strangers for a dinner. The people they…
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Protest Outside UK Asylum-Seeker Hotel Ends in 15 Arrests
Read more: Protest Outside UK Asylum-Seeker Hotel Ends in 15 ArrestsLONDON (AP) — An anti-migration protest outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwest England turned violent and resulted in the arrests of 15 people, local police said Saturday. The Merseyside Police department said a police officer and two civilians sustained…
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Kids Helping Kids
Read more: Kids Helping KidsKids Helping Kids is a youth hip-hop program run by two NGOs, Hip Hip Saves Lives and Negusworld. Together, these organizations work with middle school and high school students to make conscious hip hop influenced by activist work happening worldwide.…
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“The Future Of the Revolt”
Read more: “The Future Of the Revolt”This work addresses inequalities and disparities experienced specifically by LGTBIQ peoples in Spain. In the heart of this picture are six individuals dressed in queer fashion walking and linking arms. This is a powerful depiction. Usually, especially in a global…
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…
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JEREMIAH’S VANISHING NEW YORK
Read more: JEREMIAH’S VANISHING NEW YORKThis blogger documents all the cool things that are on their way to extinction in New York. A mix of preserving history and nostalgia through old school photography and new media. This website creates a nostalgic internet record of pre-internet New…