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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This artist’s red shoes stand in for all the women lost to violence
Read more: This artist’s red shoes stand in for all the women lost to violenceElina Chauvet’s red shoes are worldly. They’ve been in Milan, Italy, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Not just one pair, but hundreds — red boots, red heels, red toddler shoes. They’re not there to see the sights, but to take up…
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Mass Protests to Online Activism: How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways Activists Fight
Read more: Mass Protests to Online Activism: How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways Activists FightFridays for Future strikers around the world shared their demands for bold climate action online Friday as many youth activists heeded public health experts’ recommendations in the face of the coronavirus pandemic by eschewing public protests in favor of digital…
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Anti-Trump protesters lay ‘body bags’ outside one of his New Jersey golf clubs
Read more: Anti-Trump protesters lay ‘body bags’ outside one of his New Jersey golf clubsSocial distancing guidelines didn’t stop members of Refuse Fascism Philly from criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday. Rather than march as a crowd through Center City, a handful of protesters from the group, which has…
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A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal
Read more: A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removalThis wonderful campaign of Earth Action Network against mountaintop removal coal mining focused not on the invulnerable mining companies, but on the banks that financed them – and especially PNC, which based its growth model on recruiting university students. It…
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Sneaking the Jews out of Denmark
Read more: Sneaking the Jews out of DenmarkIn September 1943, the Nazis prepared for the deportation of all Danish Jews to the concentration camps and death. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat with a conscience, deliberately leaked the plans for the roundup, which was due to begin…
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Washing the Flag
Read more: Washing the Flag“It might not seem that an act of public laundry could unsettle a president with a well-deserved reputation for inflexibility, corruption, and brutality. But mass washing ceremonies were a key element in getting rid of Peru’s unpopular president, Alberto Fujimori,…
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Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells Fargo
Read more: Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells FargoOn the eve of Wells Fargo’s annual shareholders meeting in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday, home defenders, students, community groups, and activists in ten cities took peaceful action against the bank. Petitions signed by thousands of people were delivered to…
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Gandhi’s Salt March to the Sea
Read more: Gandhi’s Salt March to the SeaIn 1930, the Indian National Congress adopted satyagraha (essentially, nonviolent protest) as their main tactic in their campaign for independence. Mahatma Gandhi was appointed to develop a plan of action; he proposed marching to the sea to make salt in…
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Read more: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus BoycottIn 1900, Montgomery, Alabama had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race, and conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites,…
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Experimental Wall #27
Read more: Experimental Wall #27This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions,…
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Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock “Schitibank”
Read more: Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock “Schitibank”A source of delicious egg creams and daily newspapers since at least the 1930s, an unassuming shop at the corner of St. Marks Place and 2nd Avenue was renamed Gem Spa in 1957 and swiftly transformed into a meeting ground…
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Art Inspection notices
Read more: Art Inspection noticesBogus building inspection notices with the forged signature of city Building Inspection Director Frank Chiu appeared on buildings in San Francisco’s South of Market area, prompting an investigation by exasperated city officials. Project LOFT, as posted in July 2000: “In…