Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Read more: Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on WomenBy Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog “I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,…
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Can ‘Caring Across Generations’ Change the World?
Read more: Can ‘Caring Across Generations’ Change the World?From The NationBy Laura Flanders A new campaign calling itself Caring Across Generations has in mind nothing less than a 180-degree turn in the way that Americans think about themselves, one another, the economy and workers. This group aims to…
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Morocco protest against rape-marriage law
Read more: Morocco protest against rape-marriage lawBy Nora Fakim, BBC News Several hundred women’s rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco’s parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence. Morocco’s penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor…
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Art Works Projects: Afghanistan Exhibition
Read more: Art Works Projects: Afghanistan ExhibitionArt Works Projects’ mission is to use design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights and environmental issues. AWP provides visual advocacy tools which produce action on human rights crises at the…
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Stop Rush Limbaugh
Read more: Stop Rush LimbaughBy BRIAN STELTER Some of the same activists that persuaded advertisers to boycott Glenn Beck’s television show on Fox News in 2009 are now mobilizing against Rush Limbaugh in the wake of his verbal attacks on a Georgetown University law…
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Greenpeace Protests Apple’s Energy Practices By Releasing Balloons
Read more: Greenpeace Protests Apple’s Energy Practices By Releasing BalloonsBy C.J. HUGHESThe skies over the glass cube that serves as the entrance to the Apple store on Fifth Avenue turned a bit dark on Tuesday afternoon, at least for some shoppers inside. And a passing storm had nothing to…
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It’s OK to Say Gay
Read more: It’s OK to Say GayMissourians are fighting against legislation that would essentially make it legal to bully against LGBT students in the state’s schools. From the activists’ site (http://oktosaygay.org/): Leaders in the Missouri House are supporting “Don’t Say Gay” legislation (HB2051) to eliminate discussions…
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Norwegians sing to annoy mass killer
Read more: Norwegians sing to annoy mass killerNorwegians raised their voices in unison on Thursday to get under the skin of admitted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. An estimated 40,000 people turned out in central Oslo’s Youngstorget square to sing “Children of the Rainbow,” a Norwegian version of…
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From a Universe of Trash
Read more: From a Universe of TrashFrom a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope By STEPHEN HOLDEN “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s…
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Sharing Is Caring
Read more: Sharing Is CaringDan Bull & Pirate Bay Attack the Music Charts With “Sharing Is Caring” This week, with support from a Promo Bay campaign on The Pirate Bay, UK rap artist Dan Bull is aiming to send a message to the mainstream…
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Read more: Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones When Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act last winter, members of the online community Reddit sprang into action. They called their congressmen, spammed Twitter, and did what they do best: hatched…
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Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme Band
Read more: Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandLt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandJohn Heartfield it’s not, but the viral photocollage campaign immortalizing the nonchalant thuggery of Lt. John Pike, the campus policeman at UC Davis who was documented on Friday, November 18, pepper-spraying peacefully seated Occupy-movement protesters,…