Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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Vietnam comes to Washington
Read more: Vietnam comes to WashingtonIt’s the summer of 1971 and tourists flock around one of Washington DC’s most famous hotspots – the Capitol steps. Journalist Art Goldberg recalls ‘a squad of soldiers moving through the space. They are grubby-looking troopers, clad in jungle fatigues.…
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Stop Being Serious, This Protest is a Laughing Matter
Read more: Stop Being Serious, This Protest is a Laughing MatterFrom the Australian, 27 September 1992. Some forms of nonviolent protest are uniquely Indian. Take the ‘gherao’, for instance. A factory owner emerges from his limousine and is mobbed by angry workers. They don’t hurt him: they just surround and…
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In Burma, dogs ridicule the regime
Read more: In Burma, dogs ridicule the regimeDogs featured in one ruse to ridicule the regime—pictures of dictator Than Shwe were hung around the necks of the stray dogs that roam the streets of Rangoon. The pictures, which rapidly found their way onto the Internet, are the…
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Freedom riders
Read more: Freedom ridersThe first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren’t invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC…
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MASK art exhibit
Read more: MASK art exhibit“MASK” is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing,…
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Mother’s Power
Read more: Mother’s PowerWhen mothers take to the streets — particularly those from privileged groups — governments take note. The “wall of moms” in Portland has taken up the cause against police violence. Wearing matching shades of white or yellow, the women of…
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Hunter’s Poppet
Read more: Hunter’s PoppetHate hunting? Want to do something creative to protect wildlife and affect positive change? The Hunter’s Poppet is a witch-craftivism intervention, free to use and share. A ‘poppet’ is a ritual object made to represent a human figure, charged with…
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Artist Statement
Read more: Artist StatementMine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped…
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Read more: WE CHANT RESISTANCE!This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is…
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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Read more: Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision…
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Read more: TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth…
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Global Poetry Response#blacklivesmatter
Read more: Global Poetry Response#blacklivesmatterTo state or chant ‘BLACK LIFE’S MATTER’ is not to say other lives don’t matter, it’s a reminder that four hundred years and counting, black lives didn’t matter enough. Not during the dark era of slave trade and its horrors…