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The Artists Representing Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
Read more: The Artists Representing Puerto Rico After Hurricane MariaSix months before Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, a group of Puerto Rican artists were invited to participate in a residency program in Miami by local art organizations. The artists were offered abandoned storefronts-turned-studios at a historic downtown…
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Ice Sculpture Steals Show at U.K. Climate Debate
Read more: Ice Sculpture Steals Show at U.K. Climate DebateFive leaders of British political parties called for dramatic action to confront climate change in a televised debate on Thursday, just two weeks before the country’s general election. A melting ice sculpture stole the show. The sculpture stood in for…
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TEACHINGS OF DIOGENES
Read more: TEACHINGS OF DIOGENESTEACHINGS OF DIOGENES (c. 412- c. 323 B.C ) Diogenes was a very playful philosopher who liked to use great wit when challenging the values and beliefs of his fellow citizens in ancient Athens. He lived in great poverty, probably…
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NYPD Drones
Read more: NYPD DronesOn Sunday, September 16th at around 1am, a white van—labelled with “Van Wagner’s” blue logo and topped by a yellow strobe light—circled through permanently lit Times Square. Inside the vehicle, the driver and passenger, both dressed as construction workers, were…
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Untitled
Read more: UntitledIn May 1992, a series of 24 billboards displaying an identical image began appearing throughout New York City. They featured a giant close-up black-and-white photograph, without text, of a rumpled bed, pillows still indented from the heads that had rested…
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Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
Read more: Baldur’s Gate: Siege of DragonspearOriginal Story: The GOG and Steam store pages for Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear are littered with negative reviews, with gamers trashing the game largely as a result of an encounter that takes place between the player and a transgender…
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P.A.I.N.
Read more: P.A.I.N.Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was…
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Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker Meeting
Read more: Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker MeetingIt was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings.…
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Read more: The Protest Banner Lending LibraryThe Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners…
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Rubber Tracks
Read more: Rubber TracksConverse Rubber Tracks is a global community of professional recording studios, which provides free studio time to emerging artists. Bands and artists record without any fee whatsoever and maintain all the rights to their music. These studios are supported by…
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Liberation Caravan
Read more: Liberation CaravanMukti Caravan, the Campaign on Wheels, is a mobile cultural group of former child bonded labourers. Started by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), a movement started by now Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, it involves activists visiting villages to…
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Burners Without Borders
Read more: Burners Without BordersBurners Without Borders (BWB) is a grassroots, volunteer-driven, community leadership organization whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems that bring about meaningful change. Supporting volunteers from around the world in innovative disaster relief solutions…