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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Critical Engeneering Manifesto
Read more: Critical Engeneering ManifestoThe Critical Engineering ManifestoThe Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing…
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Freedom of Speech
Read more: Freedom of SpeechThe Winds of Art, and of Freedom, Blew for a Few Moments in Havana Yoani Sanchez, Huffington Post The Tenth Visual Arts Biennial in Havana allowed us to enjoy some bubbles of freedom. Hidden in metaphor and protected by the…
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Italian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cut
Read more: Italian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cutItalian museum burns artworks in protest of budget cut An Italian museum on Tuesday began burning its collection of contemporary artworks in a singular protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural institutions out of pocket. The Casoria Contemporary…
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Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall Street
Read more: Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall StreetUnemployed Man and his costumed colleagues stormed Wall Street on Monday morning, bringing some superhero street theater — and a 16-foot evil robot known as the Slot Bot — to the Occupy protests in New York.The Superheroes versus Economic Supervillains smackdown was…
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Bull Fight on Wall Street
Read more: Bull Fight on Wall StreetEarlier today, a small group of Occupy Wall Street activists engaged in a near-successful corrida against the Wall Street Bull.The incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast as well…
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APEC World Leaders Dinner Gets Occupied
Read more: APEC World Leaders Dinner Gets OccupiedHonolulu – A change in the programmed entertainment at last night’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gala left a few world leaders slack-jawed, though most seemed not to notice that anything was amiss.During the gala dinner, renowned Hawaiian guitarist Makana, who performed…
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Ninguno pa’ Gobernador
Read more: Ninguno pa’ GobernadorNinguno pa’ Gobernador fue un acto de protesta a las elecciones coloniales, promovidas por los partidos burgueses, mediante una campaña de abstención al voto y a favor de llevar la política a las calles mediante la protesta y la auto-gestión…
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One People Flash Mob
Read more: One People Flash MobOn 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at OccupySF & Oakland to dance the world awake.
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Read more: Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America LobbyA crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. “Bank of America took our homes so we though we’dmove in here!” External sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzMLu4K_2o
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Free Subway Ride
Read more: Free Subway RideWednesday’s Free Subway Ride? That Was Occupy Wall Street If official-looking MTA signs directed you to breezily walk through open service gates during your Wednesday morning subway commute, you can thank Occupy Wall Street. The Brooklyn Paper and Daily News report that a team…
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Operation Schildkröte
Read more: Operation SchildkröteOccupy Dusseldorf was inspired by an editorial cartoonfrom Brooklyn, New York based artist Mark Hurwitt tocreate an imaginative street theatre performance artprotest action. They marched with hundreds of medievalshields created out of enlargements of Hurwitt’s arttranslated into many languages forming…
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Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman Sachs
Read more: Outraged homeless muppets to converge on Goldman SachsNEW YORK, April 21, 2012 — Homelessness is a great American tragedy. Our financial system and government have let us down and we, together, must take a stand to change the way the system works. With over 11 million homes…