Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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“You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world record
Read more: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world recordOn October 6th, 2007, we beat a new world record. Thousands of people in cities all across Spain simultaneously shouted: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE!” The decibels radiating from this collective cry were registered by…
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Some Good News
Read more: Some Good NewsSomeGoodNews is a Youtube channel started by actor John Krasinski. The videos in the channels are aimed at discussing and sharing good news happening these days. The channel was set up as a way to help alleviate the mental health…
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Fighting Viral Hate With a Hashtag
Read more: Fighting Viral Hate With a HashtagGrandmas diving for seafood while immigrants wrestle with identity. Scrambling for self-worth in the face of suicide. Rock music in the face of fear. A noir murder mystery. Musings on death. This lineup of Asian Pacific Islander (API) theatre works—including…
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The Sexist of the Year
Read more: The Sexist of the YearThis week’s Swede of the Week is Tomas Gunnarsson, whose quest to find Sweden’s “Sexist of the Year” has found a viral following across the country. He says Swedes who buy into the ‘most equal country in the world’ label…
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Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social Justice
Read more: Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social JusticeThe Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation have combined forces to bring 75 powerful and engaging poster works on broad issues of health care to audiences traditionally excluded from the art world in…
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Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan
Read more: Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a PlanThe coronavirus outbreak has prompted climate activists to abandon public demonstrations, one of their most powerful tools for raising public awareness, and shift to online protests. This week, for example, organizers of the Fridays for Future protests are advising people…
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The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hope
Read more: The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hopeFor artist Vasilios Papapitsios, going public with his HIV status has been gradual. He was diagnosed at age 19, but about three years passed before he wrote an anonymous piece about his experience for a North Carolina zine. He presented…
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Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on Iran
Read more: Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on IranActivists have started an online campaign to pressure US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to lift sanctions on Iran to help it contain the spread of coronavirus. Coronavirus: Are US sanctions hurting Iran’s response to the pandemic? The hashtag #EndCOVIDSanctions was…
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Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist Whale
Read more: Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist WhaleInspired by the ecological disaster unfolding across the planet and driven by empowering underrepresented people, Moule, a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, creates art that makes a statement. Dressed in a magenta blazer and wearing bright pink lipstick, she is…
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Ghen Cô Vy / Corona Hand Washing Song
Read more: Ghen Cô Vy / Corona Hand Washing Song‘Jealousy Ms. Vy’ is a creative project of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, in collaboration with musician Khac Hung, singer Min and singer Erik. Through this project, we look forward to empowering and trusting the community, so that…
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A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’
Read more: A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’The idea was born in an instant. A curator attending an opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art was immediately captivated by a painting from an artist she had barely heard of, Mary Lovelace O’Neal. Three months later, a five-decade…
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Big Bossa
Read more: Big BossaWajiha Jendoubi is an actress and one of Tunisia’s best-known comedians. To be a woman comedian in this North African nation can be a challenge, but the country’s gender gap is narrowing for the first time in almost a decade…