Projects tagged
Corporate Power
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P.A.I.N.
Read more: P.A.I.N.Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…
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Monopoly Man
Read more: Monopoly ManDuring Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the Equifax data breach, a protester dressed as the “Monopoly Man” from the board game photobombed Equifax CEO Richard Smith’s testimony. While the CEO discussed his company’s breach that affected 145.5 million people, the protester…
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Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir
Read more: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping ChoirReverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. We are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked…
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“up yours” share trading
Read more: “up yours” share tradingJAMES GUBB was finishing off the knuckles when the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) shut him down. Trading single shares between two accounts, Mr Gubb had managed to “draw” the image of a fist with an upright middle finger onto the…
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This area will be photographed
Read more: This area will be photographed“This area will be photographed” is a public performance of implied photographic consent, inspired by Google’s street view and satellite surveillance. Posted signs and handbills alerted the public present in Union Square, New York, NY that a photograph would be…
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Fake lives matter!
Read more: Fake lives matter!The kidnapping and enslavement of African people was the life-blood of transnational corporations like the “Royal African Company.” In law, these human resource corporations were called “artificial people.” Their human cargo was called “cargo.” Once upon a time, British and…
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Unspeakable
Read more: UnspeakableAs a visual art student, I’m interested in hearing your feedback about this project. Thanks We need to make a call to awaken humanity from their passivity and social indifference and acceptance of criminals who did commit crimes against humanity.…
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Museum of Capitalism
Read more: Museum of CapitalismImagine a world without capitalism. That simple yet seemingly impossible task is at the core of the Museum of Capitalism, a new speculative institution set to open its doors in Oakland, California, on June 17th. Through August 20th, the free…
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Pay Trump Bribes Here
Read more: Pay Trump Bribes HereVisitors to the Trump International Hotel in Washington were greeted with a provocative message Monday night: “Pay Trump bribes here.” Artist and filmmaker Robin Bell said he projected those words onto the hotel’s facade from a van across the street,…