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Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art project

Date:
Apr 28 1991

February 29, 2012 The Kansas City Star By Jessica Blakeborough The chickens have been granted a stay of execution. City codes prevent Amber Hansen, a Lawrence artist, from displaying and then butchering chickens for an art project, a city official…

Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art

Practitioner:
Mexican Activists

Date:
Apr 28 1991

Huff Post Latino Politics The Huffington Post While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence. Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico…

Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders

Practitioner:
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed

Date:
Apr 28 1991

VOA NEWS March 29, 2012 By Nico Colombant WASHINGTON–A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict. In an audio montage of memories…

Gowanus Art Collective Is The Epicenter of ‘Occupy’ Art

Practitioner:
Occuprint

Date:
Apr 28 1991

The Brooklyn Paper March 26, 2012 BY ELI ROSENBERG Occupy Wall Street wants to occupy your wall space. A collective of poster printers in Gowanus is attempting to help reignite the social movement’s flames for a May 1 “General Strike,”…

“White Square” Activists Gather in Red Square

Practitioner:
White Square

Date:
Apr 28 1991

Care2.com April 9, 2012 By Sarah Vrba There have been regular protests in Moscow in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidential seat in March. Early last month, thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Moscow in response to…

Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with ‘butthurt form’

Practitioner:
Anonymous

Date:
Apr 28 1991

There’s a fine line between offensive and hilarious, and Arizona lawmakers aim to make that boundary legally protected. If House Bill 2549 passes, online harassment could become a criminal offense – but some hacktivists are there to help you rejoice.…

Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a ‘Girlcott’

Practitioner:
Gurgaon Girlcott

Date:
Apr 28 1991

India Ink [Blog] The New York Times Global Edition April 4, 2012 By Neha Thirani The women of Gurgaon, angered by the recent incidents of violent crimes against women in the outsourcing boom town, are calling for a “Girlcott.” From…

London 2012 Olympics: Anti-BP activists carry out sponsor sacking hoax as protests grow

Practitioner:
Campaign for a Sustainable Olympics

Date:
Apr 28 1991

Hoax: The London 2012 Olympic Games website was faked by group CAMSOL The official London 2012 Olympic Games website was faked on Wednesday by protesters demanding that BP be dropped as one of the event’s official sponsors. Published April 13,…

Myanmar’s Young Artists and Activists

Practitioner:
New Zero Artists

Date:
Apr 28 1991

In the country formerly known as Burma, these free thinkers are a force in the struggle for democracy. By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Adam Dean Smithsonian Magazine, March 2011 Editor’s Note, April 3, 2012: The election of Daw Aung San…

The Freedom Trail on Trial

Practitioner:
Urbano Project

Date:
Apr 28 1991

In the fall of 2011, Urbano’s teen artists and artist-in-residence Neil Horsky partnered with professional artists, educators, librarians, and historians to undertake a critical investigation of Boston’s Freedom Trail. During the investigative process teen artists questioned the assumptions, accuracy, comprehensiveness,…

On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex

Practitioner:
Sex Week at Harvard

Date:
Apr 28 1991

By DOUGLAS QUENQUA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a table set up by a campus student group, this one held some unusual items: a gynecologist’s speculum, diaphragms, condoms (his and hers) and several packets of lubricant. Nearby, two students batted an…

China’s censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media

Practitioner:
Weibo

Date:
Apr 28 1991

The Guardian By Tania Branigan In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk. One of the clearest is: no gossip about top political leaders, their families or internal party affairs. But just as…