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Singing to Disrupt Housing Auction
Read more: Singing to Disrupt Housing AuctionDemonstrators aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement sang their way into handcuffs during a Bronx foreclosure auction Monday to protest the housing crisis that continues to plague the borough. They serenaded a courtroom of real estate investors with the…
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Brokers and Police for the Occupation
Read more: Brokers and Police for the OccupationTwo members of the Yes Lab brought a dozen thrift-store suits to Zuccotti Park and asked for volunteers. Then, within earshot of the police, the group made a human microphone announcement about a “highly risky, very arrestable” action. Then, together…
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Ghillie Suits Occupy UBS
Read more: Ghillie Suits Occupy UBSThe Yes Lab collaborated with “Knobotiq” to design an action against UBS, a financial services giant renowned for aiding tax evaders, funding environmental destruction, and getting bailed out by the public. The Yes Lab described it as a mix of…
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Mierdazo
Read more: MierdazoAfter the economic crisis of December 20, 2001 in Argentina, there was a growth in the participation in all types of protests and claims of the different sectors affected by the crisis (against banks by savers, roadblocks and mobilizations of…
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Belgium Disappears
Read more: Belgium DisappearsFor a brief moment on Wednesday night it appeared that Belgium had disappeared. The main French language television station hoodwinked the country into thinking that it had split in two when it reported that Flanders had issued a unilateral declaration…
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APEC Osama Motorcade
Read more: APEC Osama MotorcadeA satirical TV comedy show caused a security alert after coming within yards of George Bush’s hotel at a top-level government conference in Australia. The Chaser’s War on Everything, which airs on the ABC network, sent a team to the…
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Otpor Barrel Action
Read more: Otpor Barrel ActionThe Milosevic regime ruled over Serbia and Yugoslavia for about 13 years. To maintain control, the Milosevic regime was infamous for arbitrary arrests, beatings, imprisonment and even murder of avid opponents. In 2000, before the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, a…
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José Bové dismantles a McDonald’s
Read more: José Bové dismantles a McDonald’sJosé Bové, a sheep farmer/activist in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, is a modern day Astérix, a mythical Gaul who drubbed foreign intruders centuries ago. In Bové’s case, the intruder was McDonald’s, the American fast food chain. On…
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ACT UP protests
Read more: ACT UP protestsIn 1987 with AIDS deaths in the thousands and government policy still criminally indifferent, activists formed ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) with the purpose of turning grief and fear into rage and action. Over the next decade, rage…
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Ace Bank
Read more: Ace BankACE Bank was a hoax bank developed as part of a bigger campaign by Netwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organization concerned with banks’ responsibilities for what they invest in. ACE bank was an elaborate deception, with a headquarters in central Brussels,…
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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container
Read more: Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs ContainerForeigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container), alternately named “Wien-Aktion”, “Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week”, or “Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights”, is an art project and television show from 2000 that took place within the scope of the…
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Nikeplatz
Read more: NikeplatzIn September 2003 the news went out nationwide: Karlsplatz, one of Vienna’s main squares, is soon to be renamed Nikeplatz. Apart from the new name, it appears that a huge monument in the shape of Nike’s famous “Swoosh” logo will…