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Welcome World Sleep Day: Performance art calls for “Put down the phone and sleep at ease”
Read more: Welcome World Sleep Day: Performance art calls for “Put down the phone and sleep at ease”March 20, World Sleep Day is approaching, Chongqing Fuling wine town square placed 2 transparent sleep house, staff in the form of performance art to call on people to “put down the phone, sleep at ease”. It is reported that…
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Bicycles as a vehicle for protest in Guatemala
Read more: Bicycles as a vehicle for protest in GuatemalaNon-profit organizations and a multitude of Guatemalan girls protested together demanding justice and security from the government. Guatemala’s insecurity and cases of girls’ disappearances have increased over the years. The protest started outside the Government Ministery (Ministerio de Gobernación) early…
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Dramatic Recovery
Read more: Dramatic RecoveryWhat is it like living with AIDS? This heart-wrenching video for South Africa’s Topsy Foundation brings us through 90 hard days in the life of someone living with it. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end.…
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“Glory” Performance at the Academy Awards
Read more: “Glory” Performance at the Academy AwardsSee below for a link to the performance of the song at the Academy Awards. From Salon: How Common and John Legend’s performance of “Glory” fired up Oscar night’s idling empathy machine by Sonia Saraiya The primary feeling to come…
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Don’t Cover Up, Set Up – Chinese Women Against Domestic Violence
Read more: Don’t Cover Up, Set Up – Chinese Women Against Domestic ViolenceThe video DON’T COVER UP, STEP UP is a public service announcement raising the issue of gender-based violence. In the video, a vlogger teaches her fans how to cover up bruises with makeup after she has been beaten by her…
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Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path
Read more: Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive pathTennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he’d be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he’d be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at…
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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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Turning a public toilet into a spa
Read more: Turning a public toilet into a spaFor three days, Ruben Santiago installed, without any official authorization, a hydro-massage shower in a public bathroom in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. The installation also made available to users bath gel, shampoo and towels that were regularly replaced. The…
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Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’
Read more: Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’It’s an evocative image — and it was intended to be: Diana, Princess of Wales, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket, walking through a live minefield in Huambo, Angola. The image of the princess, at the time one of…
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Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ Installation
Read more: Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ InstallationFor Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, memory and land are inevitably entwined. The 45-foot letters of Never Forget reference the Hollywood sign, which initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND and was erected to promote a whites-only development. Its…
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Howard University students protest housing conditions with on-campus tent city
Read more: Howard University students protest housing conditions with on-campus tent cityDozens of Howard University students are sleeping outdoors in a tent encampment on campus grounds to protest what they describe as “poor” and “unlivable” conditions in the college dormitories. Students told ABC News that portions of the university living quarters…
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Dad Writes Anti-Sexism Timewarp Letter to Daughter’s School
Read more: Dad Writes Anti-Sexism Timewarp Letter to Daughter’s SchoolWhen the boys were sent on a field trip to a hardware store and girls went to get their hair done, this modern dad didn’t get mad, he got hilarious. He wrote a letter notifying the school that there was…