Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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WHO SUCKS THE MOST?
Read more: WHO SUCKS THE MOST?Gum Election Gum Election is a guerilla art project which started in New York City in October 2008. It encouraged people to vote during the presidential election in 2008 and also not to spit out their chewing gum carelessly on…
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Pranksters Prank Nobodies Into Believing Some Nobody Is Somebody
Read more: Pranksters Prank Nobodies Into Believing Some Nobody Is SomebodyBY NEETZAN ZIMMERMAN The Chill Hill Media gang descend upon a popular Virginia mall to conduct a simple social experiment: Turn team member Thomas Elliot into a celebrity through sheer force of suggestion.With the help of a few friends brought in to pretend Thomas…
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Corporations Ain’t People
Read more: Corporations Ain’t PeopleCorporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest September 14, 2010; YES Magazine When Target spent $150,000 to support a Minnesota politician who favors anti-gay legislation, thousands of people decided to boycott the big-box chain. But instead of simply shopping elsewhere, these…
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Color-Cycling
Read more: Color-CyclingCiclo-Color February 7, 2012, www.mastamagazine.net Having a bike as vehicle and paint as a tool, “Bici-Brochas” brings new colourful lines to the asphalt and, according to the chosen route, leaves a hint of colour that breaks up with the sobriety…
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Support Breasts, Not Dictators
Read more: Support Breasts, Not DictatorsBarbed-wire bra protest over Burma investment BBC News Monday, 10 December, 2001 Triumph International, a leading European luxury lingerie firm, is facing a fierce boycott campaign because of its operations in Burma. Under the slogan “Support Breasts – not Dictators”,…
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Mobile Homeless Homes
Read more: Mobile Homeless HomesMuppets Revenge Joey Skaggs, www.artoftheprank.com At 11:00 a.m., April 23, 2012, artist Joey Skaggs will lead a band of outraged costumed muppets down to the Goldman Sachs offices at 200 West Street in NYC. Skaggs will be peddling his Mobile…
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Senator Protests with the F-Word
Read more: Senator Protests with the F-WordSen. Judy Eason McIntyre, of Tulsa, protests anti-abortion bill with F-word www.newsok.com By Megan Rolland | Published: February 29, 2012 Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre, a Democrat from Tulsa, joined protesters of a proposed fetal personhood bill Tuesday on the north…
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Sex Strike
Read more: Sex StrikeMockery: Women’s New Weapon SATURDAY, MAR 17, 2012, www.salon.com, BY TRACY CLARK-FLORY From a proposed sex strike to mock legislation restricting access to Viagra, women are coming up with increasingly creative ways to respond to attacks on reproductive rights. Many of…
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SOPA Blackout
Read more: SOPA BlackoutSOPA Blackout: Wikipedia, Google, Wired Protest ‘Internet Censorship’ Jan 18, 2012, ABC News, Ned Potter Go to Wikipedia’s English home page and it will look like its regular self for a second, but then – Go to Google‘s homepage, and…
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Welcome to Palestine
Read more: Welcome to PalestineWelcome To Palestine by Saed Bannoura Israeli daily Haaretz, reported that 470 of the 1200 persons that Israel blacklisted as “pro-Palestinian” and part of the Welcome To Palestine campaign, were not activists; two of them were a French diplomat and…
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Dancing in Syria
Read more: Dancing in SyriaIn Protests, Syrians Find the Spark of Creativity By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — You could call it the dance-athon to dislodge a despot. Among protesters across the Arab world, Syrians —particularly the restive residents of Homs…
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Chilean Kiss-In
Read more: Chilean Kiss-InChile Students Stage Kissing Protest Ricardo de la Pena, UPI.com High school and university students staged a “Kiss in” outside the palaces of the city courts in Conception, Chile in response to Presient Pinera’s announcement on new government policies for…