Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Fur Free
Read more: Fur FreeAnti-Fur advocates have been protesting through demonstrations for decades, throwing red paint on women wearing fur coats, passing out leaflets and sporting the slogan “Fur Is Dead” on t-shirts and stickers and spray-painting it on buildings in cities throughout the…
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Greenpeace asks Nestle to Have a Break
Read more: Greenpeace asks Nestle to Have a BreakGreenpeace released a video to spread the word that Nestle, the maker of Kit Kat, was using palm oil purchased from companies that are destroying the Indonesian rainforest and pushing orangutans towards extinction. The video, which features a guy opening…
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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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Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG Project
Read more: Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG ProjectIn the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC, sexual violence is a community-wide problem. Rape, in the DRC has been used as a weapon of war and sadly continues to increase even after. According to the peacebuilding NGO Search for…
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Above’s Blood Diamond
Read more: Above’s Blood DiamondAfrica has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army’s war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the…
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TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2012
Read more: TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2012One Day Without Shoes. It’s that time again. We’re going barefoot on April 10 and we hope you’ll join us. TOMS began just 6 short years ago, and in the beginning, we really had to think out of the box.…
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Dubai Man Aims to Enable Filmmaking Skills Among West Bank Youngsters
Read more: Dubai Man Aims to Enable Filmmaking Skills Among West Bank YoungstersYoungsters on the West Bank will have the chance to benefit creatively from a new project this summer. From the beginning of July, Handheld Stories plans to teach filmmaking skills to groups between eight and 16 years old from youth…
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Hoodies and Hijabs at Amnesty International General Meeting
Read more: Hoodies and Hijabs at Amnesty International General Meeting“At the recent Amnesty International Annual General Meeting, we decided to do an action stating we stand with Shaima Alawadi and Trayvon Martin. Check out the action, even Asma Mahfouz, one of the founders of the April 6th Movement in…
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Egypt’s Hip Hop Revolution Continues: New Videos From The Narcicyst & MC Amin
Read more: Egypt’s Hip Hop Revolution Continues: New Videos From The Narcicyst & MC AminA year after the revolution, Egypt is still in conflict, still grasping for a catalyst to solidify its society and bring unity and peace to the people. Violence, poverty and unemployement are still rampant, and the voiceless still seek a…
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Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind
Read more: Embody the Message: Occupy the MindEmbody the Message: Occupy the Mind This t-shirt / language project began in March 2006, when a small group of artists and activists decided to embody the historic words “WE WILL NOT BE SILENT” while doing a public action in…
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Lawmaker Arrives at Parliament on Donkey
Read more: Lawmaker Arrives at Parliament on DonkeyTurks Party (CTP) deputy Arif Albayrak arrived at the Parliament of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) on a donkey on Monday in protest of rising oil prices and a recent government decision to purchase new cars. Addressing the…
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At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in Hand
Read more: At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in HandNew York Times January 28, 2012 By SIMON ROMERO SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This mega-city’s authorities have waged war for years against what they call “visual pollution,” banning billboard advertising, demolishing abandoned skyscrapers and planning to raze concrete eyesores like…