Projects tagged
Cities
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Nats Never Die/The Zombies are Coming!
Read more: Nats Never Die/The Zombies are Coming!The Yes Men join Reclaim the City in their fight against unjust housing policy. On September 30, 2019, a horde of zombies attended a “#natsneverdie rally” at the Cape Town Civic Centre in order to celebrate Mayor Dan Plato and…
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Experimental Wall #27
Read more: Experimental Wall #27This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions,…
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Art Inspection notices
Read more: Art Inspection noticesBogus building inspection notices with the forged signature of city Building Inspection Director Frank Chiu appeared on buildings in San Francisco’s South of Market area, prompting an investigation by exasperated city officials. Project LOFT, as posted in July 2000: “In…
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NYU Students’ Response to COVID-19 Housing Closure
Read more: NYU Students’ Response to COVID-19 Housing ClosureThis was a protest posted on Change.org in response to NYU’s forced eviction deadline on students living in on-campus housing. The following was the information posted on the site: We, the undergraduate student body of New York University, strongly urge…
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Documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico
Read more: Documentary Vietnam, Puerto RicoPuerto Rico doesn’t know what’s going on here, and if they do, they’re ignoring us.” So opens Gabriel Miranda’s documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico. Focused on the coastal community of Vietnam, which is located in the Guaynabo, the doc tells the…
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Book Burning Party – Troy Library
Read more: Book Burning Party – Troy LibraryTroy, Michigan couldn’t afford to keep its library open, so it scheduled a vote for a tax increase. A strong anti-tax group waged a dominating campaign against it. Posing as a political group, an outside advertising agency posted signs around…
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Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
Read more: Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler PlanetA public art exhibition designed to raise awareness of solutions to climate change. Cool Globes grew out of a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, and was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2006. Since that time, Cool…
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Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone
Read more: Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police DroneA technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn’t use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead,…
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“Si 8 Do” Seville Poop Project
Read more: “Si 8 Do” Seville Poop ProjectIn the Si 8 Do project, Seville activists convened in a neglected barrio during the Euromediterranean Conference on Sustainable Cities, which was taking place in Seville. To protest the city’s housing policies—selling prime public land to wealthy developers, and neglecting…
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Coal for the rich
Read more: Coal for the richStudents from Colombia College teamed up with Greenpeace and The Yes Men to take on the Chicago coal industry in an elaborate, multi-layered hoax. The group created a scheme to announce that a new coal plant was planned—but instead of…