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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Ridiculously Rich for Rove
Read more: Ridiculously Rich for RoveIn 2009, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Karl Rove to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many groups of activists responded. Students for a Democratic Society organized a loud demonstration in…
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The Coultergeist
Read more: The CoultergeistIn 2010, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Ann Coulter to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In order to attend, students had to e-mail the College Republicans (allowing them to deny…
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Tea Party for Obama
Read more: Tea Party for ObamaWith the aim to confuse and ‘stir up the shit’, Brainstone built and launched a website that looked like the beloved Tea Party had given up on its right-wing clowns and finally supported Obama. The site drew lots of twitter,…
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to SmileStop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women’s voices, and faces, and…
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Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s Day
Read more: Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s DayValentine Peace Project (VPP) Community Valentine actions started on the streets of Los Angeles with the sharing of thousands of poems on peace and expressions of love given out wrapped around carnations and later Fairtrade roses. Students also made paper…
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Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotent
Read more: Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotentOn November 7, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI visited our city. He would have been better off staying at home. Even before he touched land we had rendered him impotent for life. Yes: im-po-tent. A group of infidels who had met…
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Discongreso
Read more: Discongreso“Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work. The first thing…
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Cop d’ ull
Read more: Cop d’ ullThis project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. “Cop d’ ull” means a “a blow…
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Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Read more: Art and Activism (TV Documentary)A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects…
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Activism and Fiction (TV documentary)
Read more: Activism and Fiction (TV documentary)On 6 January 2012, Metrópolis (TVE 2) broadcast “Activismo y Ficción”, a report directed by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Núria Campabadal. It looks at a series of creative projects that lie somewhere between fiction and social activism. The paramount…
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The end of the world as we know it !
Read more: The end of the world as we know it !Preparing for the Corporate take over of the Pacific Rim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LW-TEHIScvw External sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LW-TEHIScvw
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Afghan Grafitti artist Malina Suliman Refuses to Back Down
Read more: Afghan Grafitti artist Malina Suliman Refuses to Back DownAfter Afghan artist Malina Suliman’s father suffered a brutal attack in their hometown of Kandahar, the Suliman family fled to Mumbai, where they plan on staying until the end of March. Malina is a 23 year-old grafitti artist whose work…