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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On Sidewalk
Read more: Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist “Melts” On SidewalkA young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to…
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Sima Qian: China’s ‘grand historian’
Read more: Sima Qian: China’s ‘grand historian’Sima Qian: China’s ‘grand historian’ By Carrie Gracie BBC News, Beijing Speaking truth to power has always been a high-risk strategy in China. Its rulers tend to prefer flattery, and writers who forget this do so at their peril. China’s…
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The City: Pedestrian and Cyclist Cemetery
Read more: The City: Pedestrian and Cyclist CemeteryThe City: Pedestrian and Cyclist Cemetery (Ciudad cementerio de peatones y ciclistas) A project by Bicicleta Blanca Guadalajara Since we perceive the world at the size of a human being and not a car, this is an inherently more comfortable…
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Activists get branded with hot steel
Read more: Activists get branded with hot steelOn October 2nd 2012, World Farmed Animals Day, three animal rights activists in Israel got branded with a hot steel brand, in the same way that farmed animals are branded in factory farms. The branding of the calf’s number, chosen…
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Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection Law
Read more: Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection LawThousands of animal rights activists marched against a draft law on Sunday that would make changes to Turkey’s Animal Protection Law No. 5199, seeking to introduce practices currently used in other countries such as collecting stray animals from the streets…
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Running for Peace
Read more: Running for Peace“He’s been running all his life, running for freedom, running for peace.It started when he ran away from home at the age of eight. Later he ran away from his homeland, Iran, and spent seven years on a bicycle, pedaling…
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In Belarus, Theater as Activism
Read more: In Belarus, Theater as ActivismBy DAVID L. STERN, in The New York Times Published: September 22, 2009 MINSK, BELARUS — Three male actors enter a stark, white room in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of this former Soviet city and place a large…
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Republican climate sceptics face battle for re-election as green groups hit back
Read more: Republican climate sceptics face battle for re-election as green groups hit backRepublican climate sceptics face battle for re-election as green groups hit back: Activists plan targeted campaign to defeat ‘Flat Earth Five’ group of Republicans in congress who refuse to accept climate science It is the issue most notable by its…
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Tate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collection
Read more: Tate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collectionTate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collection: Liberate Tate, an art collective who object to BP sponsorship, have offered the 16 metre turbine blade to the gallery A 1.5 tonne, 16.5 metre-long wind turbine blade carried last month…
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“Be the first follower” dance video
Read more: “Be the first follower” dance videoIf you’ve learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let’s watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons: A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But…
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Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Read more: Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran“A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the…
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52 Shades of Greed: An Illustrated Education
Read more: 52 Shades of Greed: An Illustrated EducationAfter being contacted by a member of the Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking group , illustrator Marc Scheff agreed to do a few drawings for a deck of cards depicting some of the people and institutions responsible for causing the…