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Street Artists Turn Fur Coats into Wild Animal Graffiti Protest
Read more: Street Artists Turn Fur Coats into Wild Animal Graffiti ProtestBy Joe Laur Members of the creative collective Neozoon, a group of artists based in Paris and Berlin, are staging a protest against using animal furs as fashion by turning fur coats into street art graffiti. Apparently, they are taking…
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International demonstrations on Animal Rights Day
Read more: International demonstrations on Animal Rights DayShowcasing death to defend life El Pais, Madrid Activists protested with the organization Animal Equality (Igualdad Animal) in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Burgos, and Toledo on December 10, commemorating the international Animal Rights Day. The activists were dressed in white…
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Sh*t the FBI says
Read more: Sh*t the FBI saysBy Will Potter I tried to resist. I really did. But when I jokingly posted on the Green is the New Red Facebook page that I wanted to make a “Sh*t the FBI Says” video, ya’ll went nuts about the…
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Aqua Line
Read more: Aqua LineCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 2000 Heavy Trash, an anonymous arts organization of designers, architects, and urban planners, implemented its Aqua Line project throughout various parts of Los Angeles. The project involved the installation of false “Future Station Location”…
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Brinco
Read more: BrincoCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: Brinco is an art project, product, and intervention created by the Argentinean artist Judith Werthein for the 2005 inSITE Biennial held on the border of Tijuana and San Diego. Brinco—Spanish for “jump”—is a specially designed…
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Anti-oilsands protest unfurled on Calgary Tower
Read more: Anti-oilsands protest unfurled on Calgary TowerCanadian Broadcasting Corporation, Tuesday, August 3, 2010: Several Greenpeace activists are in police custody after three of them rapelled off the Calgary Tower to hang a banner attacking the relationship between the oilsands industry and government. The group was able…
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Theater for Incarcerated Women
Read more: Theater for Incarcerated WomenCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 1989 actress/writer Rhodessa Jones was conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail. Working with female inmates, she developed material for a performance piece called Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women based on their lives…
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Read more: Barbie Liberation OrganizationNew York Times, DAVID FIRESTONE, Published: December 31, 1993 Your son tears the wrapping paper off his fierce new “Talking Duke” G. I. Joe doll and eagerly presses the talk button. Out comes a painfully chirpy voice that sounds astonishingly…
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Cross-Border Communication
Read more: Cross-Border CommunicationFrom Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which…
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Broadsides
Read more: Broadsides“Since March 2011, the artist Tim Devin has been putting broadsides (small posters) up around the Boston area. The posters come in different kind of flavors: Street Surveys, Mappy Facts or Poems by Paul Johns. Street Surveys ask questions that…
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Russian Feminist Punk Rock
Read more: Russian Feminist Punk RockAnti-government protests in Russia are taking many different forms, from mass rallies and marches to defiant street art and music. Just recently, members of a feminist punk group were arrested in Moscow’s Red Square after they performed a song ridiculing…
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Bank of America’s new Automated Truth Machines
Read more: Bank of America’s new Automated Truth MachinesA couple of weeks ago, a group of activists working with Rainforest Action Network’s Energy and Finance campaign hit the streets of San Francisco to bring a little truth about Bank of America’s misdeeds to its customers—not in the lobbies…