Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Burkaphilia
Read more: BurkaphiliaWhen Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d…
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Above and Beyond Memorial
Read more: Above and Beyond Memorial“The massive “Above and Beyond Memorial” will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for…
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Read more: Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacyIn the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…
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Toyi-Toyi
Read more: Toyi-ToyiToyi-toyi is a Southern African dance originally from Zimbabwe by Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) forces that has long been used in political protests in South Africa. Toyi-toyi could begin as the stomping of feet and spontaneous chanting during protests…
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I Have a Right Too…
Read more: I Have a Right Too…CAM brings contemporary art and ideas directly to Saint Louis Public High School and Middle School students through its ArtReach program. Tailored to meet the needs of individual schools and teachers, ArtReach is designed to raise awareness of contemporary issues…
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The Police are Present
Read more: The Police are PresentIf you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid’s Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight. Flanking the Marqués de Casa Riera stood 30 neatly parked cars equipped with flashing police lights. But…
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The technopolitical struggle for free culture
Read more: The technopolitical struggle for free cultureThe Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and…
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The Capitol Crawl
Read more: The Capitol CrawlThe Americans With Disabilities Act Is Turning 25. Watch the Dramatic Protest That Made It Happen. —By Samantha Michaels Twenty-five years ago this weekend, the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law, officially outlawing discrimination against disabled people in…
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How about taking your favourite banker (and politician) to jail?
Read more: How about taking your favourite banker (and politician) to jail?The Spanish 15M/INDIGNADOS social movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, creatively transforming the prevailing participation and action patterns in its society. Inside the swarm of the movement, we find a key…