Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Thousand Kites and the Criminal Justice System
Read more: Thousand Kites and the Criminal Justice SystemThousand Kites, a nonprofit organization based in the Appalachian region, advocates for prison reform through performance. The following excerpt is directly quoted from the Thousand Kites website: “Starting 1998, as host of the rural, Appalachian region’s only hip-hop radio program…
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Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest
Read more: Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for ProtestDEPENDING on your taste, punk died in 1979, or maybe 1994, or whenever studded leather cuffs became a must-have mall-girl accessory. Now, suddenly, punk has been resurrected, stitched together anew in the form of the well-accessorized Russian women who call…
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Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’
Read more: Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’ANKARA, Turkey — In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school.The scene and its themes of nudity and sexual depravity are at…
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Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Read more: Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial ComplexWHAT: Noise Demo WHEN: 8:00pm, Saturday, May 12th WHERE: Bayview Correctional Facility – West 20th Street & 11th Avenue New York, New York COST: Free As the Global Class War continues to heat up, the state continues its ongoing use…
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Iconic artists release ‘Toast To Freedom’ song for Amnesty’s 50th anniversary
Read more: Iconic artists release ‘Toast To Freedom’ song for Amnesty’s 50th anniversaryReleased to mark World Press Freedom Day, song is also tribute to recently-deceased drummer Levon HelmAmnesty International has released “Toast To Freedom,” a new and exclusive commemorative song dedicated to human rights activism around the world.The song, an ambitious collaboration,…
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Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe Streets
Read more: Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe StreetsFrom Women’s News NetworkYEMEN: Even though the connection to the internet has been intermittent at best and often too slow, women advocates in Yemen are now working to push digital tech as a means to improve society and gain human…
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Spectres of Liberty
Read more: Spectres of LibertySpectres of Liberty is an on-going public, hybrid media project about the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. Through this project we explore the following questions: How do we make visible histories of people and…
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Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Read more: Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rightsThere are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing…
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Czechoslovakia’s two-hour general strike
Read more: Czechoslovakia’s two-hour general strikeA general strike can be one of the most potent noncooperation methods in the repertoire of nonviolent resistance. It is a widespread cessation of labor in an effort to bring all economic activity to a total standstill. Although it is…
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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Read more: Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on WomenBy Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog “I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,…