Projects tagged
Does nothing (at all)
Doesn’t really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist’s dissatisfaction with the world.
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Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Read more: Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart ProjectThis is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the history and present of…
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Miss Rockaway Armada
Read more: Miss Rockaway ArmadaThe Miss Rockaway Armada is both a collection of individuals and an idea. At its most basic, the idea is this: we’re going to float down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans on rafts that we built ourselves.…
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Spectres of Liberty
Read more: Spectres of LibertySpectres of Liberty is an on-going public, hybrid media project about the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. Through this project we explore the following questions: How do we make visible histories of people and…
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People’s History Markers
Read more: People’s History MarkersThe Howling Mob Society has created ten historical markers representing history from the perspective of the working class. In particular, these markers detail events and significant locations from the Great Strike of 1877 – a historical event in Pittsburgh’s labor…
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Over 500 Caged Dogs Rescued By Animal Lovers In China’s Yunnan Province
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison Corporations
Read more: Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison CorporationsFrom Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison company, shareholder activist Alex Friedmann will have exactly two minutes to speak about the unconventional resolution he introduced earlier this year…
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Dignidad Rebelde
Read more: Dignidad RebeldeOakland-based artist-activists Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza teamed up to form Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration working for social change. They believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions, and following principles of…
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Ghost Bikes
Read more: Ghost BikesGhostbikes.org is intended to be a site for the worldwide cycling community where those lost on dangerous streets can be remembered by their loved ones, members of their local communities, and others from around the world. They also hope to…
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We Animals
Read more: We AnimalsWe Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its…
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Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May Day
Read more: Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May DayUnlike some of Occupy Wall Street’s iconic actions in recent months, May Day did not include a scene of mass arrest. Several dozen arrests were scattered throughout the day and night during various marches and actions. But, as never before in…
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Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Read more: Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rightsThere are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing…
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Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auction
Read more: Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auctionAmidst a crowd of protesters and oversized signs, Pat Walsh shouted, “What’s disgusting? Union busting?” At a glance, Walsh, a woman with well-kept gray hair and an open smile, didn’t strike one as the usual angry protester. But that night,…