Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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German Supermarket Removes All Foreign Products For A Day
Read more: German Supermarket Removes All Foreign Products For A Day“A German Supermarket Removed All Foreign Products for a Day to Make a Point About Diversity” “To emphasize the importance of global diversity in a context everyone can understand, German supermarket Edeka made a surprising decision: It emptied its Hamburg…
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“I’m Just a Slave” parody from Black-ish/The Roots
Read more: “I’m Just a Slave” parody from Black-ish/The RootsOn Tuesday night, Black-ish, one of the best shows on TV, returned for its fourth season. As expected, the premiere was outstanding. The episode was a history lesson. The subject? June 19, 1865, better known as the Juneteenth, the official…
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Theresa May gets fired during speech
Read more: Theresa May gets fired during speechAt Theresa May’s speech to the Conservative Party conference, comedian Simon Brodkin crept up to the stage and handed the Prime Minister a P45 form (the form that bosses in the UK use to formally fire their employees), telling her…
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R-Evolution
Read more: R-EvolutionActivists are working to bring a steel sculpture of a 45-foot-tall nude woman to Washington, where she will temporarily face the White House from a perch on the National Mall. Transporting the sculpture from its home in San Francisco will…
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This area will be photographed
Read more: This area will be photographed“This area will be photographed” is a public performance of implied photographic consent, inspired by Google’s street view and satellite surveillance. Posted signs and handbills alerted the public present in Union Square, New York, NY that a photograph would be…
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Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker Meeting
Read more: Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker MeetingIt was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings.…
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Fake lives matter!
Read more: Fake lives matter!The kidnapping and enslavement of African people was the life-blood of transnational corporations like the “Royal African Company.” In law, these human resource corporations were called “artificial people.” Their human cargo was called “cargo.” Once upon a time, British and…
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Repellent Fence
Read more: Repellent FenceThe Repellent Fence is a social collaborative project among individuals, communities, institutional organizations, publics, and sovereigns that culminate with the establishment of a large-scale temporary monument located near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. This 2 mile long ephemeral land-art…
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Unspeakable
Read more: UnspeakableAs a visual art student, I’m interested in hearing your feedback about this project. Thanks We need to make a call to awaken humanity from their passivity and social indifference and acceptance of criminals who did commit crimes against humanity.…
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Clowns against (Nazi) Clowns
Read more: Clowns against (Nazi) ClownsTrolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting—namely, white supremacists from around the country,…
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Activsm, Artivism and Beyond; inspiring initiatives of civic power.
Read more: Activsm, Artivism and Beyond; inspiring initiatives of civic power.‘Activism, Artivism and Beyond; Inspiring Initiatives of Civic Power’ Around the world people are responding to forces that threaten their rights and freedoms in creative and inspiring ways. Every year CIVICUS publishes the ‘State of Civil Society’ report, which maps…
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Monopoly
Read more: MonopolyMonopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that…