Projects tagged
Amplifies (issue or campaign)
Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign. Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
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21st Environmental Film Festival Puts Spotlight on Eco-Activism
Read more: 21st Environmental Film Festival Puts Spotlight on Eco-ActivismThe 21st annual Environmental Film Festival is being held in Washington DC from March 12 to March 24, 2013. Shining a spotlight on environmental issues and eco-activism, the festival features films that are both directly and tangentially related to concerns…
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Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’
Read more: Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’By WILLIAM J. BROAD With flashlights and bolt cutters, the three pacifists defied barbed wire as well as armed guards, video cameras and motion sensors at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee early on July 28, a Saturday. The…
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Lion Lights
Read more: Lion LightsRichard Turere, 13, has devised an innovative system to protect his family’s livestock from the wild beasts. He created “Lion Lights,” which keeps the predators away from the family’s enclosure. The Kenyan boy will speak about his invention at the…
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Activist busted after defacing anti-Islam ad in Times Sq. station
Read more: Activist busted after defacing anti-Islam ad in Times Sq. stationAn Egyptian-born activist was arrested yesterday for spray-painting subway billboards that call enemies of Israel “savages” — amid a wave of vandalism unleashed on the inflammatory ads, which have divided the city. Mona Eltahawy, a self-described “liberal Muslim,” strolled up…
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Occu-bot and Management-bot
Read more: Occu-bot and Management-botOccu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters. Management-bot, also known as the Financier, is a walking robot that accompanies the Occu-bot. It is made of two stepper motors…
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New Craft Artists in Action
Read more: New Craft Artists in ActionMaria was psyched to travel to the Philippines where her hand-made basketball nets were well received. Invited with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things (Boston/Mass based) by Clara Balaguer and the Office of Culture and Design (Manila) she worked in…
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We Declare The World as Our Canvass
Read more: We Declare The World as Our CanvassThe website ‘Street art utopia’ has an amazing collection of pictures of street art from Belgium, NYC, to Brazil and Israel Palestine. Talented people sharing their art publicly for the streets and the world to see! Activism: reclaiming a public…
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Breaking the Spell
Read more: Breaking the SpellIn 2012, VOW Media worked with young girls – who have been victimized by, or are at the risk of falling victim to “loverboys”, as well as girls who have gone through severe traumatic experiences, such as repeated emotional, physical…
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Art and the Arab Awakening
Read more: Art and the Arab AwakeningArt and the Arab Awakening By Nama Khalil, August 2, 2012 Revolutionary street art in Tunisia. In the days following Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, burned and battered cars piled up inside state-owned lots throughout…
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Stella McCartney Designs Shirts for Red Nose Day
Read more: Stella McCartney Designs Shirts for Red Nose DayThis action, to be released to the wider public this Friday, March 15th, was the design of t-shirts in support of British Charity, Comic Relief, an organization dedicated to bringing positive and lasting change to vulnerable youth communities in Europe…
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Clean Up Day
Read more: Clean Up DayThrough his environmental, social justice organization, Instituto-E, Dr. Oskar Metsavaht, the creative director behind ethical fashion brand, Osklen, joined forces with Rainer Nolvak, founder of international civic sanitation movement, Let’s Do it and Umer Pter, head of External Relations and…
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Luminous Intervention beams ballot issues over Baltimore Highway
Read more: Luminous Intervention beams ballot issues over Baltimore Highway“In preparation for tomorrow’s election, members of artist-activist project Luminous Intervention beamed ballot-question themed slogans onto a bridge over Route 83 during rush hour traffic this evening. Today’s action followed on the heels of an equality-themed luminous alteration of The…