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North Hall Takeover at UCSB

Practitioner:
a group of 12 black students at UC Santa Barbara

Date:
Oct 14 1968

For some, October 14, 1968, was a clarion call to the future. On that day, a group of 12 black students at UC Santa Barbara, tired of the unequal treatment and passive-aggressive racism they received as Black athletes — and…

Thai youth takes creative defiance into election

Practitioner:
Young campaigners in Thailand

Date:
Oct 14 1968

As the No. 59 bus hurtled down Ratchadamnoen Klang road in Bangkok’s Old Town, its passengers diverted their attention from the intense midday heat to a small crowd on the concrete below. About 25 people were marching and chanting, photographers…

Chinese See Themselves in a Chained Woman

Practitioner:
academics…, journalists, lawyers, netizens

Date:
Oct 14 1968

The Xuzhou chained woman incident, also known as the Xuzhou eight-child mother incident, is a case of human trafficking, false imprisonment, sexual assault, severe mistreatment, and subsequent events that came to light in late January 2022 in Xuzhou’s Feng County,…

Ai Weiwei, Stools, 2014. Courtesy of Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei

Date:
Oct 14 1968

Chinese artist Ai WeiWei has drawn on the stool part of that French surrealist’s pioneer work for his latest exhibition, the largest ever devoted to Ai, which opens in Berlin this Thursday. The show, entitled Evidence, is at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau…

Flower People

Practitioner:
Dakotah Aiyanna

Date:
Oct 14 1968

“As a Black woman, I can grow absolutely anywhere,” Aiyanna explains. “I can adapt to any storm, any weather, any changes. In the Black community, that’s something that we’re really good at.” So when Aiyanna, 25, was asked to contribute…

Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only Education

Practitioner:
Ethnic Mongolians in China

Date:
Oct 14 1968

Thousands of ethnic Mongolians have protested across northern China in opposition to Beijing plans to replace the Mongolian language with Chinese in some school subjects. Tuesday marked the first day of a policy revealed in June, to gradually transition the…

Chinese artist speaks out against zero-Covid policy by wearing 27 hazmat suits in Times Square

Practitioner:
Zhisheng Wu

Date:
Oct 14 1968

On Sunday morning, a puffy, Michelin Man-like figure trudged through Times Square in New York, panting from the exertion of trying to move while wearing 27 hazmat suits. Inside the white cocoon was Zhisheng Wu, a Chinese artist who staged…

Beijing Sitong Bridge protest

Practitioner:
Peng Lifa

Date:
Oct 14 1968

The Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest in China during the prelude to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the morning of October 13, 2022, a protester demonstrated against CCP general secretary Xi Jinping’s…

A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics

Date:
Oct 14 1968

It all started when a 70-year-old fish market stall owner nicknamed “Booghy” was grooving in public, in violation of Iranian law. A new form of protest against the government is rocking Iran: a viral dance craze set to an upbeat…

You don’t like me? I’m gonna throw a party in front of your office window

Practitioner:
Trans children and teenagers

Date:
Oct 14 1968

On Monday, May 22nd, trans children and teenagers from across the country threw a prom on the National Mall, a youth-led public celebration of trans joy at a time when more and more states are adopting viciously anti-trans legislation. The…