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The Poster Workshop

Practitioner:
Anonymous

Date:
May 1 1968

Between the late 1960s and 1970s numerous alternative printshops were set up across the UK, with the founding objective of producing, providing or facilitating the cheap and safe printing of radical materials. They were started by libertarians, aligned and non-aligned…

Sweeping Out Corruption

Practitioner:
Rio de Paz (Peace Rio)

Date:
May 1 1968

Four ministers in Brazil have resigned since January after being implicated in corruption, and on Wednesday, protesters showed they’ve had enough. Protesters planted 594 green and yellow brooms right in front of Brazil’s Congressional building each representing the colors of…

ItCouldHappenToAnyone.com

Practitioner:
Agitpop

Date:
May 1 1968

The Battle for Healthcare Agitpop joined Dawn Smith and MoveOn.org in taking on Dawn’s insurer to get the care she needs and reform our broken health care system. They traveled from Atlanta to Philidelphia to share her story and bring…

Public Option Annie

Practitioner:
Agit-Pop

Date:
May 1 1968

The Guerilla Musical heard round the world What was it? ‘Public Option Annie’ was a highly visible musical intervention to reframe the health care debate in late 2009. They wanted to re-energize progressives frustrated by a summer of unchecked right…

DebtFair

Practitioner:
Occupy Museums

Date:
May 1 1968

Occupy Wall Street’s art offshoot, Occupy Museum, has a new initiative: deconstructing the commercial art fair model. They are calling this art fair antithesis the DebtFair. Last May at the Frieze Art Fair, Occupy Museum distributed flyers and protest literature…

Anti-Capitalism Art on the Louvre’s Glass Pyramid

Practitioner:
Michelangelo Pistoletto

Date:
May 1 1968

For the first time since its controversial installation in 1989, the I.M. Pei-designed Louvre Pyramid has been decorated in a museum-sanctioned act of anti-capitalist activism. Italian conceptual artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has imposed a three-looped infinity symbol on the pyramid’s western…

Complementary Currency Project

Practitioner:
Burners Without Borders

Date:
May 1 1968

Initially organized to respond to holes in service provision following Hurricane Katrina, Burners Without Borders has since 2005 “emerged as a community led, grassroots group that encourages innovative, civic participation that creates positive change locally.” One ongoing project headed by…

School of Echoes

Practitioner:
Ultra-Red

Date:
May 1 1968

Ultra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through “militant sound investigations”. “While the image determines much of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to…

Nameless Vigilantes

Practitioner:
Anonymous

Date:
May 1 1968

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is…

Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at Wesleyan

Practitioner:
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Center

Date:
May 1 1968

After collecting street art and memorabilia from “Occupy Wall Street” since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center. The posters will make…