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We Do Care
Read more: We Do Care‘MADE IN BANGLADESH’: NEWYORKERS RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT WORKER EXPLOITATION IN FASHION INDUSTRY New York City – Models are marching along the biggest shops in Fifth Avenue, wearing faux bloodied shirts with statements ‘Made in Bangladesh’, ‘Support Cheap Labor.’ Myths about…
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Television Commercial for Communism
Read more: Television Commercial for CommunismImagine for a brief moment, that the world’s last five remaining communist countries decided to unite forces and hire the world’s top advertising agencies to re-brand and create a resurgence in the ideologies of Communism? Television Commercial for Communism [TVCC]…
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Subway Therapy
Read more: Subway TherapyDuring her concession speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton uttered a simple, terrifying sentence: “Donald Trump is going to be our president.” For many Americans—New Yorkers especially—the sickening reality of a Trump presidency is impossible to fathom. A few hours later, a…
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The Crossings
Read more: The CrossingsUsing Performance Art to Alert Drivers to Look Out for Pedestrians A series of three street performances taking place this Thursday and Friday carries a simple message – remember to see and stop for pedestrians. UWM Professor Anne Basting has…
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The Confined Hearts Project
Read more: The Confined Hearts ProjectThe Confined Hearts Project is creating 1468 terracotta anatomical human hearts, one for each person seeking asylum in Australia but being held in detention on Manus Island and in Nauru. Hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures have…
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BlindWiki
Read more: BlindWikiUnveiling the Unseen BlindWiki is a location-based audio network where citizens who are blind or partially sighted use smartphones to share their findings by posting sound recordings. The platform does not just contain information about difficulties and barriers but is…
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Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Read more: Occupation of Alcatraz IslandThe beacon flashed incessantly. On. Off. On again. Like some sort of traffic light gone crazy, it pierced the thick nighttime mist hovering over San Francisco Bay. The light sent a message five miles across the dark waters from Ghirardelli…
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Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World
Read more: Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the WorldThe exhibition “Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World” included work by five New York City area artists that examined a range of social and political issues and offered companion special events. The exhibit, curated by Aileen Bassis, presented…
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Starbucks Customers Are Insisting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Heard
Read more: Starbucks Customers Are Insisting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is HeardIn the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter supporters are finding creative ways to make sure the movement is acknowledged everywhere. When ordering at Starbucks, people have changed their name to “Black Lives…
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Photo: Mermaid Ocean Activist at a Climate Protest Against Fossil Fuel Donations & Subsidies at the Office of Far-Right Politician. Video: Displaced Mermaids Genetic Link To Bleached Reef Corals
Read more: Photo: Mermaid Ocean Activist at a Climate Protest Against Fossil Fuel Donations & Subsidies at the Office of Far-Right Politician. Video: Displaced Mermaids Genetic Link To Bleached Reef CoralsSandy of The Sea with Ocean News on the bleaching of marine species! This is an exciting yet troubling breakthrough for marine species. A new genetic study has proven that mermaids may be more closely related to fragile Branching Corals.…
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2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift
Read more: 2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural ShiftWhen Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That’s odd. What’s that got to do with someone like me?” When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author, got the call,…
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Afrofuturism: An Interview with Krista Franklin
Read more: Afrofuturism: An Interview with Krista FranklinThe term “Afrofuturism” was coined in the 1990s by the cultural critic Mark Dery, who recognized a preoccupation with the future in the work of a number of black artists. Ever since, it has remained a term that is retrospectively…