Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Climate strikes continue online: ‘We want to keep the momentum going’
Read more: Climate strikes continue online: ‘We want to keep the momentum going’The large crowds and brightly coloured placards of the school climate strikes became some of the defining images of 2019. “There would be lots of chanting and the energy was always amazing,” says Dominique Palmer, a 20-year-old climate activist from…
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Protect Nurses
Read more: Protect NursesRegistered Nurses will be holding a protest in front of the White House on Tuesday, April 21 to call attention to the tens of thousands of health care workers nationwide who have become infected with COVID-19 due to lack of…
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Professor tracks rise in racism linked to pandemic
Read more: Professor tracks rise in racism linked to pandemicResearch from Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies Russell Jeung spurs launch of online reporting center to document COVID-19 discrimination. As the coronavirus spreads globally, San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Professor and Chair Russell Jeung is tracking…
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Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms
Read more: Blanke Bedenken, or Naked QualmsA group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt at risk from coronavirus…
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How This Indigenous Model Is Using His Platform for Climate Activism
Read more: How This Indigenous Model Is Using His Platform for Climate ActivismIndigenous designers often use fashion to celebrate their culture and raise awareness around key issues affecting their community. Now, the spirit has come to the modeling world. Haatepah Clearbear is a full-time model, based in Los Angeles, who is using…
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Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane Fonda
Read more: Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane FondaJudy Chicago, the pioneering feminist artist who made the iconic 1970s work The Dinner Party, has enjoyed a long and illustrious career rife with critical approval. Now, in anticipation of Earth Day 2020, Chicago is launching a new project called…
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Socially Distant: Stories from a world apart during COVID19 social distancing
Read more: Socially Distant: Stories from a world apart during COVID19 social distancingHow it works: 1. Call or text “hello” to (951) 963-3643 to share your experience. Make sure you’re in a quiet place. Maximum recording time is 10 minutes. 2. Please start by telling us where you’re calling from. Perhaps you…
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Against Excessive Quarantine
Read more: Against Excessive QuarantineProtests against state stay-at-home orders have attracted a wide range of fringe activists and ardent Trump supporters. They have also attracted a family of political activists whom some Republican lawmakers have called “scam artists.” A family-run network of pro-gun groups…
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Xiuhtezcatl
Read more: XiuhtezcatlThe new wave of hip-hop has arisen a woke generation. From it, Xiuhtezcatl — seventeen-year-old Indigenous rapper and activist — has emerged, stirring the comatose with his music. From performing at the Standing Rock encampment with Immortal Technique and Nahko…
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Greta Thunberg launches video of family walking around burning house calling for action on climate change
Read more: Greta Thunberg launches video of family walking around burning house calling for action on climate changeGreta Thunberg has launched a campaign video of a housing burning to the ground as she calls for more action on climate change. The shocking clip shows a family waking up, having breakfast and talking as their home is engulfed…
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Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests
Read more: Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protestsA trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists. The…
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Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)
Read more: Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)Artists in Rio de Janeiro have staged a pop-up street show to protest against the closure by the new far-right state government of an exhibition because of a performance attacking dictatorship-era torture. Álvaro Figueiredo, the curator of Literatura Exposta (Literature…