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Hundreds of anti-bull fighting protestors stage a dramatic rally in Mexico City
Read more: Hundreds of anti-bull fighting protestors stage a dramatic rally in Mexico CityBy Jill Reilly, The Daily Mail, UK Hundreds of animals rights protestors covered themselves in fake blood and lay on the ground in a demonstration against bull fighting in Mexico City. An estimated 250 people took part in Saturday’s protest,…
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MyPolarIce
Read more: MyPolarIceMyPolarIce sells small pieces of polar ice at a popup store in Museum Square Amsterdam. External sources: http://www.mypolarice.com/
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Ovary Funny: Womens’ Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In Stitches
Read more: Ovary Funny: Womens’ Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In StitchesBY MIRANDA NEUBAUER | Friday, March 30 2012 Calling itself “Government Free VJJ,” a group started by three women after a conversation on Twitter is hosting an organizing initiative asking women to knit — or crochet! — a uterus for each man…
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ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverage
Read more: ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverageQUESTION: Year after year, decade after decade, you alert the legal authorities to cruelty violations and suffering animals in peril, yet nothing ever happens. You know for a fact there are thousands of screaming and suffering hens inside a factory…
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Break Down
Read more: Break DownArtist Michael Landy catalogued, inventoried, and systemically destroyed all of his possessions for the 2001 public installation Break Down, commissioned by British arts organization Artangel. It took him three years just to itemize the 7,227 objects included in the project.…
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Brooklyn Bridge Lottery
Read more: Brooklyn Bridge LotteryOn March 24, 1992, a fake inter-office memorandum from the then Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins, was leaked to the press. A handwritten Post-it note was attached which read “Thought you might be interested in seeing…
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Racy offer
Read more: Racy offerProtests continue at Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility Demonstrations against the German government’s nuclear power policy continued as protesters marched near the Gorleben waste storage site. But one provocative author came up with a racier way to block a nuclear…
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Joe Chemo
Read more: Joe ChemoFrom http://www.joechemo.org/about.htm Although Joe Chemo may seem like a joke, there’s nothing funny about chemotherapy. This web site is dedicated to chemo patients and their family members, with the hope that it will reduce the number of people who smoke…
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Lights in the City
Read more: Lights in the CityMontreal: The City of Lights In Canada Alfredo Jaar completed a project referred to as Lights in the City, in 1999. Keep in mind this is considered one of the richest cities in North America. with a large population of…
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Cathouse for Dogs
Read more: Cathouse for Dogs“Cat House for Dogs,” said an ad in the Village Voice, “featuring a savory selection of hot bitches…” Along with this ad, a press release was sent to the media saying that if your dog graduated from obedience school, if…
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Silent vigil at Saudi Embassy to Free Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
Read more: Silent vigil at Saudi Embassy to Free Abdulhadi Al-KhawajaFormer colleagues of Abdulhadi Al Khawaja from Front Line Defenders today held a silent vigil at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Dublin to urge the King of Saudi Arabia to use his influence with Bahrain to enable Abdulhadi to…
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Beware the Russian dolls, says Amnesty ad
Read more: Beware the Russian dolls, says Amnesty adFollowing last week’s powerful death-penalty spot with the melting wax figures, Amnesty International in France moves on to Russian dolls to symbolize the hidden political repression and social terror in that country. “We must not let Russia’s charm hide its…