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Stop the Hatred
Read more: Stop the HatredOn March 21, just days after eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were killed in the Atlanta-area shootings, thousands gathered at Columbus Park in Manhattan for a rally against anti-Asian violence. Activists took turns addressing the surge in…
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As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand Action
Read more: As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand ActionIn December – as many around the globe were preparing for the holidays – Sama, a former attorney, remained hunkered down in her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, trying to comprehend how her world had changed. The Taliban had just released…
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Claudia Andujar’s Remarkable Art and Activism in the Amazon
Read more: Claudia Andujar’s Remarkable Art and Activism in the AmazonA new exhibition at The Shed in New York is a colour-soaked, eye-opening look into Yanomami life – an Indigenous culture in the heart of the Amazon rainforest FEBRUARY 13, 2023 TEXT: Violet Conroy Does art have the power to…
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BLM Mural in SLC
Read more: BLM Mural in SLCMural artists add color and flavor on 800 South in the Granary District of downtown Salt Lake City. There’s an old-fashioned bar on the side of a locally-owned brewery, and a Southern Utah landscape on another building. Down the street,…
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Tyre Nichols Murder Draws Social Justice Activists to Irvington Rally
Read more: Tyre Nichols Murder Draws Social Justice Activists to Irvington RallySome 70 or 80 local activists, politicians and other concerned citizens gathered outside Irvington Village Hall Sunday evening, two days after the release of gut-wrenching video of the murder of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of policemen in Memphis.…
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Read more: Bus Regulation: The Musical – The TrilogyBus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration with local…
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NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’
Read more: NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’Native American groups are expected to protest the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, calling for the AFC champions to drop their name and logo as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57. The Chiefs wear the arrowhead…
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters
Read more: ‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protestersMelissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters
Read more: ‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protestersMelissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…
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Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, Brazil
Read more: Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, BrazilIn the 1970s, Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, transformed six blocks of the main downtown shopping street into a pedestrian zone in 1972, despite fierce objections from the merchants. He quickly accomplished this change in just three…