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Manual de micromilitancia

Practitioner:
Unnamed

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Less than a month after Mauricio Macri’s inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri’s election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in…

Savages

Practitioner:
Savages

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Savages are an all-female post-punk band that attempt to motivate people to be informed and take part in politics. They “try to give people a platform to express their own ideas” as Fay Milton of the band explains. The following…

Horas por la educación, Hours for education

Practitioner:
Chilean students

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Chilean students ran for 1,800 consecutive hours around Chile’s presidential palace, La Moneda, from June 13 to August 27, 2011 to protest the cost of education. The 1,800 hours stand for the 1,800,000,000 Chilean pesos, or approximately US$4 million which…

Thriller Protest

Practitioner:
Chilean students

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: “Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher…

Street Artist Plants Secret Rooms in Milan’s Abandoned Manholes

Practitioner:
Biancoshock

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Throughout the Lodi district of Milan, Italy, artist Biancoshock has transformed abandoned manholes into miniature subterranean rooms. Beneath the pavement, in vacant maintenance vaults, a cupid painting in a gaudy frame hangs in a tiny pink living room; a boxy…

A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US Prisons

Practitioner:
Sam Durant

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The US prison system is one of the world’s great shames. A quarter of the world’s prisoners are being detained in a country that represents only 5% of the world’s population. It is a system that has been compared to…

Graffiti on Garbage

Practitioner:
Daku

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Delhi- based graffiti artist who goes by the name Daku went around South Delhi, one of the poshest places in the city, and painted on overflowing garbage cans. It is both a call to the civic bodies to clear the…

Leftover Women

Practitioner:
SK-II

Date:
Apr 1 2003

They are disparaged as “free-willed” women, “stubborn,” “picky,” “incomplete.” But a video by an East Asian beauty brand that went viral over the past week has upended the conversation on China’s sheng nu, which translates literally into “leftover women” —…

Recycle Flash Mob

Practitioner:
Mall Shoppers

Date:
Apr 1 2003

A group of unidentified guerrilla activists staged a unique pro recycling flashmob in a Quebec mall in July 2015. An actor ‘forgot’ an empty water bottle on the ground in a food court a couple of feet from a recycling…

Photoshopped Sculpture

Practitioner:
Berlin ArtParasites (publisher)

Date:
Apr 1 2003

“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men…

Wake Up Masoala

Practitioner:
Razia Said and various artists

Date:
Apr 1 2003

In an endeavor to raise awareness at the local and international level, Razia organized the Mifohaza Masoala (Wake Up Masoala) music and environmental festival, which took place at the edge of the Masoala Rainforest in October 2011. The concert featured…

This Girl Can

Practitioner:
Sport England

Date:
Apr 1 2003

This Girl Can is a campaign launched by England Sports to encourage women to be active no matter how they do it or how they look. In common culture, the trend is to be fit, active, and toned. Social media…