Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Topless Day
Read more: Topless DayWhat is GoTopless.org? We are a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007 by spiritual leader Rael and we claim that women have the same constitutional right that men have to go bare-chested in public. “As long as men are allowed to…
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Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History
Read more: Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and HistoryWhen the last detention facility in Guantanamo Bay was officially decommissioned in 2010, an international team of artists, curators and architects began planning and designing a museum that would take the place of the detention facility – a little less…
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Suffrage Parade
Read more: Suffrage ParadeOn March 3, 1913, President-elect Woodrow Wilson arrived at Union Station in Washington, DC. It was the day before his inauguration, but the teeming mobs that typically appeared to greet a new president were nowhere to be found. Instead, the…
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Turning Art Into Activism
Read more: Turning Art Into ActivismBy David Gonzalez Leslie Thomas wants to shock you. She wants to anger you. And above all, she wants you to do something. She’s not talking about run-of-the-mill, “Hey buddy, watch your step” angry or TMZ sleaze shock. She’s talking…
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Facebook: Visual Platform for Marriage Equality Activism
Read more: Facebook: Visual Platform for Marriage Equality ActivismMarriage equality activism has taken aim at a new platform for global exposure: facebook. The social media website has seen swarms of users change their profile picture to a red image with a pink equal sign on top, signifying the…
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Lady Gaga’s Meat dress
Read more: Lady Gaga’s Meat dressLady Gaga showed up to the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards wearing a dress made out of raw meat. She claimed that the dress showed her disgust towards the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, but missed the media opportunity to…
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Luminous Intervention beams ballot issues over Baltimore Highway
Read more: Luminous Intervention beams ballot issues over Baltimore Highway“In preparation for tomorrow’s election, members of artist-activist project Luminous Intervention beamed ballot-question themed slogans onto a bridge over Route 83 during rush hour traffic this evening. Today’s action followed on the heels of an equality-themed luminous alteration of The…
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Cop d’ ull
Read more: Cop d’ ullThis project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. “Cop d’ ull” means a “a blow…
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Protest Protest
Read more: Protest ProtestThis is a Universal Alignment Focal Point issue. Protesting is the right of the American People. Being able to protest unmolested is also a right. Free assembly and redress of grievance via public protest is under assault in general, and…
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Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Read more: Jews for Palestinian Right of ReturnJews For Palestinian Right of Return January 1, 2013 “For Palestinians, the right to return home and the right to live in dignity and equality in their own land are not any less important than the right to live free…