Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas Police
Read more: K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas PoliceIf you’ve spent a decent amount of time on Twitter, you’re probably familiar with the concept of K-pop fancams. The short clips of live performances, primarily by South Korean acts, often dominate replies on the app and are hated by…
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Humor to overthrow Mubarak
Read more: Humor to overthrow Mubarakfrom “Laugh, O Revolution: Humor in the Egyptian Uprising” by Anna Louie Sussman, in 2011. Revolutions can be messy. They can be tragic. As long as the Internet is working, they can be tweeted. And, as Egyptians demonstrated during their…
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The Wheelbarrow
Read more: The WheelbarrowEmpathy may be the cornerstone of any Global Justice movement, but how do we cultivate the conditions for empathy to thrive? The wheelbarrow symbolises something universally useful, practical and pleasingly straightforward. A space to deliver things in an efficient and…
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Russians Launch Mass Virtual Protests Using SatNav Application
Read more: Russians Launch Mass Virtual Protests Using SatNav ApplicationRussia is the midst of a strict COVID-19 lockdown. Although protesters cannot take to the streets, they are still holding mass demonstrations — digitally. Today, residents of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don gathered outside the local government building to protest…
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How Serbian activists started a nationwide anti-authoritarian protest during COVID-19 lockdown
Read more: How Serbian activists started a nationwide anti-authoritarian protest during COVID-19 lockdownFor the past few years around election time in Serbia, people have taken to the streets to protest government corruption, attacks on free press and voter suppression. This Spring, despite a nationwide lock-down to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, activists are…
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Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye
Read more: Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful EyeGodfrey Mwampembwa, popularly known as Gado, has been holding politicians accountable for nearly 30 years. Now, his concern has shifted to the coronavirus. In a quiet office on the third floor of a building in Nairobi’s central business district, the…
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Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms
Read more: Blanke Bedenken, or Naked QualmsA group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt at risk from coronavirus…
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Against Excessive Quarantine
Read more: Against Excessive QuarantineProtests against state stay-at-home orders have attracted a wide range of fringe activists and ardent Trump supporters. They have also attracted a family of political activists whom some Republican lawmakers have called “scam artists.” A family-run network of pro-gun groups…
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Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)
Read more: Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)Artists in Rio de Janeiro have staged a pop-up street show to protest against the closure by the new far-right state government of an exhibition because of a performance attacking dictatorship-era torture. Álvaro Figueiredo, the curator of Literatura Exposta (Literature…
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#HateIsAVirus
Read more: #HateIsAVirusActivists fighting coronavirus-driven hate crimes are rallying on social media to turn masks into a symbol, rather than a target in racist attacks Jeff Elder Apr 6, 2020, 2:03 PM Activists against COVID-19-related hate crimes are leading a social media…