Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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‘Calligraffiti’ Artist El Seed Makes Tunisia His Canvas
Read more: ‘Calligraffiti’ Artist El Seed Makes Tunisia His CanvasThe minaret of the Jara Mosque in Gabes towers over its surroundings. Formed of golden brick, it jolts up from the flat, sand-colored cityscape around it, all the better to broadcast the call to prayer across the coastal city. But…
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When artists go to war: inside the PLO’s information department
Read more: When artists go to war: inside the PLO’s information departmentI was 24 years old. We were in danger. The Israeli planes were flying raids overhead. And I was designing posters.” Hosni Radwan won’t easily forget the conditions in the Beirut offices of the PLO Information Department, as an exhibition…
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Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling
Read more: Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling“By yesterday afternoon, news of Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime NBA ban had already settled in. But there was still plenty of anger among the protesters who gathered outside the Staples Center Tuesday. With game 5 of the Warriors and…
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Reimagining a New Australia Constitution
Read more: Reimagining a New Australia ConstitutionDo we need to crowdsource a new Australian Constitution? Does anything matter more than the environment? Should Australia become a republic with an Australian head of state? Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Controversial artist Carl Scrase is…
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Matador almost gets the Wall Street Bull
Read more: Matador almost gets the Wall Street BullThe incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast, traditional ways of coaxing a bull into anger in preparation for a Castilian corrida,…
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Rolezinho Movement
Read more: Rolezinho MovementThis 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…
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Education for all in Public Space
Read more: Education for all in Public SpaceIf you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space.…
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Read more: Barbie Liberation OrganizationOn Christmas day in 1993, kids were finding more than they bargained for under their trees: Mattel’s new talking Barbie dolls growled “Dead men tell no lies,” while Hasbro’s macho GI Joe’s chirped “I love to shop with you.” Enter…
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Billionaires for Bush
Read more: Billionaires for Bush“Some people call you the elite,” George W. Bush joked to his wealthy funders, “I call you my base.” Whether candidate Bush meant it as a joke or not, the Billionaires for Bush (B4B) campaign used humor, street theater and…
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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
Read more: Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown ArmyTo some, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) might appear to be but a ragged bunch of activists sporting false noses, a smudge of grease paint, camouflage pants and bad wigs. And those people may be right. But it…
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Day Care Center Sit-In
Read more: Day Care Center Sit-InLow-income tenants at a public housing project in Rhode Island — many of them working mothers with young children — wanted an affordable day care center in their building. With petitions, pickets, and letters to the city council, they built…
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Florida Modern Slavery Museum
Read more: Florida Modern Slavery MuseumIn December 2008, farm labor contractors Cesar and Geovanni Navarrete were each sentenced to twelve years in prison for their part in what U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy called “slavery, plain and simple.” According to the Justice Department, the employers “pleaded…