Projects tagged
Education
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Erasing the Police
Read more: Erasing the PoliceThousands of students have protested in the Colombian capital, Bogota, and other cities against government plans to reform higher education. The demonstrations were mainly peaceful but Bogota police fired tear gas and used water cannon after some people threw stones,…
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3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVote
Read more: 3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVoteAt the same site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, we lit thousands of candles – one for each signature on our petition – to commemorate the legacy of brave freedom fighters Andrew…
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Education for all in Public Space
Read more: Education for all in Public SpaceIf you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space.…
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video Game
Read more: Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video GamePart of the following description is taken from an article posted on the website of Digital-Is National Writing Project (link below): In 2005, Global Kids Youth Leaders in the Playing for Keeps program chose to design a game that focused…
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Chalk it up Day with Bubbles at NYU
Read more: Chalk it up Day with Bubbles at NYULast Friday, on May 2nd of 2014, a group called The Student Debt Resistance @NYU hosted its first public engagement at Washington Square Park. The co-creators coined this event Chalk Day. The goal of this special day was to raise…
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Ghetto Film School
Read more: Ghetto Film SchoolThe mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. External sources: http://www.ghettofilm.org/
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Mining the Museum
Read more: Mining the MuseumWilson’s intervention was a correction of the museum’s identity in the sense that it made the underlying racism apparent. Using glass cases and neat labeling, Wilson’s installations mimicked the usual methods of museum display but with a twist so that…
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Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate Protest
Read more: Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate ProtestSchool desks placed by parents, district graduates and activists block a street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in a demonstration against student dropout rates Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in downtown Los Angeles. Protest organizers say…
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Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchool
Read more: Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchoolStudents at the NYC iSchool, a high school in Manhattan, worked for 9 weeks to create works of activist art with art teacher Gretel Smith. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Duncomb and Steve Lambert from the Center for…
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Silent Strikes in Venezuelan Universities
Read more: Silent Strikes in Venezuelan UniversitiesIn Venezuela, the far right opposition has protested against the leftist regime of Maduro. Violence has swept through the capital, Caracas, and other cities throughout the country. Meanwhile, the Western world has had its eye on Ukraine, and received relatively…