Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
Read more: Compton’s Cafeteria RiotCompton’s Cafeteria, 24 hour diner in S.F.’s Tenderloin was a hang out spot for trans women, drag queens, and sex workers. It was a place for the community to meet up for an expensive meal, a place to chit chat,…
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Antigone
Read more: AntigoneAntigone, written by Sophocles approximately 441 BC, is the third of the three Thebans plays. Antigone is the daughter of the infamous Oedipus and Jocasta. Thebes has suffered from a plague, scandal, and civil war. Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices…
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Dumping Tea into the Sea – the Boston Tea Party
Read more: Dumping Tea into the Sea – the Boston Tea PartyForget Sarah Palin. And take a history class and learn from the daring early settlers! The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the…
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The Dark Side: O’Keefe
Read more: The Dark Side: O’KeefeTrickery and disguise, usually followed by revealing the truth, are often tactics used by liberal activism, like the Yes Men for example. When used by the right, however, it can have different implications. Pretending to be a CEO or billionaire…
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Kurt Hiller’s Literary Activism
Read more: Kurt Hiller’s Literary ActivismKurt Hiller’s Literary Activism Sexual revolution and sexual liberation movements are traditionally associated with the 1960s and 1970s, and particularly linked to western protests and liberation discourses. However, there are some examples of sexual activism before this period. Kurt Hiller,…
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The Prometheus Project
Read more: The Prometheus ProjectThe Prometheus Project is a partnership between the American Repertory Theater and Amnesty International to bring the theater arts to the service of human rights advocacy. In an effort to bring the power of theater to aid the fight for…
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Suffrage
Read more: SuffrageAlice Paul, along with Lucy Burns, joined the National American Woman suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1912. They were allowed to take over the NAWSA Congressional Committee in DC but were given no office or funds. For months Paul and Burns…
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Asgarda: Amazons of the Ukraine
Read more: Asgarda: Amazons of the UkraineIn the Ukraine, a country where females are victims of sexual trafficking and gender oppression, a new tribe of empowered women is emerging. Calling themselves the “Asgarda”, the women seek complete autonomy from men. Residing in the Carpathian Mountains, the…
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Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City
Read more: Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City“The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places. The SCP was formed in New York City in November 1996 by…
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Lambrakis LivZ
Read more: Lambrakis LivZThe performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece. The title denotes the first…