Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Deportation Class
Read more: Deportation ClassDeportation Class is a satirical project by European anti-deportation activists protesting European airlines who agreed to cooperate with deportation agendas. Together, these airlines are referred to as the Deportation Alliance. The activists designed a faux luxury offering on behalf of…
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Prank Call to Governor Scott Walker
Read more: Prank Call to Governor Scott WalkerA New York blogger impersonating David Koch successfully prank called Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. David Koch is one of the two wealthy brothers who were big donors to his political campaign and GOP efforts generally. While Walker doesn’t say anything…
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Balls Across America
Read more: Balls Across AmericaThe Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when “Halliburton representatives” attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits (“a gated community for one”), which keep corporate managers safe from global warming.…
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Coal for the rich
Read more: Coal for the richStudents from Colombia College teamed up with Greenpeace and The Yes Men to take on the Chicago coal industry in an elaborate, multi-layered hoax. The group created a scheme to announce that a new coal plant was planned—but instead of…
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Cheat Neutral
Read more: Cheat NeutralCheat Neutral satirizes the carbon offset model by offering people the opportunity to pay someone else not to cheat on their partner in order to neutralize their own infidelity. Cheatneutral allows you to pay £2.50 to carry on cheating while…
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Daniel Defoe’s “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”
Read more: Daniel Defoe’s “The Shortest Way with Dissenters”“The Shortest Way with the Dissenters;” Or, “Proposals for the Establishment of the Church” is a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1702. Defoe was prompted to write the pamphlet by the increased hostility towards Dissenters in the wake…
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Problem Air Drop
Read more: Problem Air DropIn 2013, Ghana ThinkTank received a Creative Capital Award for Emerging Fields, enabling them to begin the multi-year ThinkTank at the Border project. In this project, they are collecting problems from civilian border patrols like the Minutemen, “Patriot” groups, and…
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The Balloon Project by Yan Kong
Read more: The Balloon Project by Yan KongThe Balloon Project, is a three-year-in-the-making Art Installation by Yan Kong in support of world refugees and migrants. It pays tribute to human spirit, courage and survival. The Balloon Project is a multimedia work incorporating mechanical engineering and visuals to…
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Tamms Year Ten
Read more: Tamms Year TenTamms Year Ten is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition of artists, prisoners, men formerly incarcerated in Tamms, family members and other people of conscience. In 2008, at the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Tamms supermax prison, the group launched…
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Hoax Award Issued at TPP Gala
Read more: Hoax Award Issued at TPP GalaTwo dozen rogue “delegates” disrupted the corporate-sponsored welcome gala for the high-stakes Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations yesterday with a fake award ceremony and “mic check.” Other activists, meanwhile, replaced hundreds of rolls of toilet paper (TP) throughout the conference…
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GM Announces Climate Commitment
Read more: GM Announces Climate CommitmentConcerned Citizens impersonated LA Autoshow hosts, interrupting a keynote speech from the General Motors’ CEO. They present a pledge on behalf of GM, committing in writing to becoming an leader in fuel efficiency, and to follow through on all the…
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Singing Disrupts Oil Auction
Read more: Singing Disrupts Oil AuctionUtah environmentalists infiltrated a federal oil-and-gas lease auction and refused to stop singing until they were escorted out. Environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams purchased development rights on a small stretch of land at the same auction, to bring attention to…