Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Thousands rally in Paris to protest slaying of Holocaust survivor
Read more: Thousands rally in Paris to protest slaying of Holocaust survivorThousands of people marched through Paris on Wednesday evening to protest the killing of a Holocaust survivor in her home over the weekend, in what investigators are treating as an anti-Semitic crime. Mireille Knoll, 85, was stabbed 11 times and…
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Protests in Belfast and Dublin after rugby players’ rape acquittal
Read more: Protests in Belfast and Dublin after rugby players’ rape acquittalProtests have been held in cities on either side of the Irish border after two Ireland rugby internationals were acquitted of rape. Up to 1,000 people took part in a demonstration in Belfast on Thursday after a jury’s unanimous verdicts…
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PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION
Read more: PORTRAIT OF A GENERATIONAfter a first illegal exhibition on the walls of the Cité des Bosquets, JR settles in the heart of this neighborhood and the neighboring projects of La Forestière, in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots started in the French suburbs. The…
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Thousands of Ghanaians protest controversial military deal with U.S.
Read more: Thousands of Ghanaians protest controversial military deal with U.S.Thousands of people protested in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday against the expansion of its defence cooperation with the United States, in a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa. Demonstrators blowing vuvuzelas…
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Fed-Up Chef Breaks Down Deer Leg in Front of Vegan Protesters
Read more: Fed-Up Chef Breaks Down Deer Leg in Front of Vegan ProtestersAfter weeks of vegan activists protesting in front of his nose-to-tail bistro, chef Michael Hunter decided to make a statement by butchering a freshly-killed deer’s leg in the window of his Toronto restaurant, Antler Kitchen & Bar, right in front…
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The Black Joy Project
Read more: The Black Joy ProjectBlack Lives Matter has pushed the national conversation on race—but the trauma and pain behind the fight against systemic racism can weigh heavily on black organizers and the communities they serve. This was the case for Kleaver Cruz, a 27-year-old…
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ASCO Collective
Read more: ASCO CollectiveBeginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…
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Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance
Read more: Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistanceIf, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective…
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Chinese High School Students Making Film about Trans Gender
Read more: Chinese High School Students Making Film about Trans GenderA high school student from The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Made a Movie about “Sexual Minorities”, a Topic Avoided By Almost Every Parent. How Should We Start Talking About This?” was widely circulated among people on…
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Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest
Read more: Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Read more: Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTIONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…