Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Rana Plaza Protests at One Year Anniversary
Read more: Rana Plaza Protests at One Year Anniversary“Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the Rana Plaza factory complex on Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the Bangladesh disaster that claimed 1,138 lives. The demonstrators – who included injured survivors and…
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video Game
Read more: Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video GamePart of the following description is taken from an article posted on the website of Digital-Is National Writing Project (link below): In 2005, Global Kids Youth Leaders in the Playing for Keeps program chose to design a game that focused…
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dronestream
Read more: dronestreamJosh Begley, a Data Artist and NYU Student, took publicly available information on recorded drone strikes and designed an interface for people to connect and sympathize with the reality of U.S. drone attacks. What started out as a political performance…
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The Ferengi Plan (AKA How to Throttle the FCC to Dial Up Modem Speeds)
Read more: The Ferengi Plan (AKA How to Throttle the FCC to Dial Up Modem Speeds)On May 9th, 2014, NeoCities.org, installed measures designed to slow the bandwidth of the FCC’s IP addresses on Neocities’ homepage, throttling their bandwidth down to 28.8kbps modem speeds (the same speed as dial up). NeoCities has demanded a $1000 “ransom”…
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OWS Subway Storytelling
Read more: OWS Subway StorytellingIn the Fall of 2011, after the Occupy Movement was in full swing, and meetings, actions and info sharing had expanded beyond Zuccotti Park, meaningful messaging and outreach tactics were were activated on a near daily basis. Subway Storytelling had…
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Waste Turned Into Homeless Shelters
Read more: Waste Turned Into Homeless SheltersThe following description is taken from Amanda Froelich’s article on www.trueactivist.com (link below): “Dumpster diving is a topic that is rising in popularity. Just take a peek at Rob Greenfield! This activist won’t hesitate before jumping in a dumpster, but…
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Santorum
Read more: Santorum“The campaign for the neologism “santorum” started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word “santorum”[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator…
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How Unemployed People See the World
Read more: How Unemployed People See the WorldEveryone knows that unemployment is one of the most serious problems that plagues society today. Yet, even though this problem is widely acknowledged, it remains difficult for many people to relate to and truly understand the personal hardships that unemployment…
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Los Intocables
Read more: Los IntocablesA CUBAN artist’s controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were…
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Fuck The Poor Charity Campaign – Creating Engagement In A Crowded Market With A Disinterested Public
Read more: Fuck The Poor Charity Campaign – Creating Engagement In A Crowded Market With A Disinterested Public“Small charities of today are in threat. Charitable donations are down. Fewer people are donating. Those that do donate are giving less. Whilst bigger charities are better equipped to deal with this flux (with money to spend on large advertising…
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Chalk it up Day with Bubbles at NYU
Read more: Chalk it up Day with Bubbles at NYULast Friday, on May 2nd of 2014, a group called The Student Debt Resistance @NYU hosted its first public engagement at Washington Square Park. The co-creators coined this event Chalk Day. The goal of this special day was to raise…
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Rolezinho
Read more: RolezinhoThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…