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Rolezinho
Read more: RolezinhoThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…
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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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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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Hypothetical Development Organization
Read more: Hypothetical Development OrganizationMembers of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse —“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only…
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Climate Comedy: Inspiring Climate Action Through Comedy
Read more: Climate Comedy: Inspiring Climate Action Through ComedyThe Climate Comedy Cohort is an unprecedented network of comedians who are coming together to learn, collaborate, and create hilarious new comedy informed by the hottest climate science. The Climate Comedy Cohort functions as a 9-month fellowship. Co-created and directed…
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“Is it Real? Yes It Is!”
Read more: “Is it Real? Yes It Is!”In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which…
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“Stop the plutonium shipment!”
Read more: “Stop the plutonium shipment!”While meditating in front of a Nepalese Sarasvati statue on New Year’s Day in 1991 at her California home, Mayumi received a calling that brought a sudden halt to painting. Having witnessed the horrors of atomic bombings as a child…
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Seaspiracy
Read more: Seaspiracy“Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species – and uncovers alarming global corruption.” External sources: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14152756/
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MASK art exhibit
Read more: MASK art exhibit“MASK” is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing,…
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Outrage in China over pressure on student to stop activism amid growing Me Too movement
Read more: Outrage in China over pressure on student to stop activism amid growing Me Too movementBEIJING – Before Yue Xin became a central figure in China’s burgeoning movement against sexual harassment, she recorded herself singing a revamped version of the 1960s pop classic “Que Sera Sera.” “Will we be equal? Will we be free?” sang…
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‘What Would Thoreau Do?’ Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline
Read more: ‘What Would Thoreau Do?’ Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline“The authority of government… is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.” Inspired by such lines from Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience,” a local timber-frame builder in…
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No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.
Read more: No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.Daniel Arzola, a digital artist and activist originally from Maracay, Venezuela, began his series, ‘No Soy Tu Chiste’ (‘I Am Not A Joke’) in 2013 intent on combating the stereotypes and cruelty so often facing LGBT identifiers; youth in particular.…