Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Now What?
Read more: Now What?Now What? project has just finished a series of interactive workshops, where global citizens came together to reflect on the global sustainability issues, got inspired and empowered to imagine the world anew through poetry and imagery. With the focus on…
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S Korean students shave heads in protest over Japan’s Fukushima water release plan
Read more: S Korean students shave heads in protest over Japan’s Fukushima water release planMore than 30 South Korean college students shaved their heads in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Tuesday to protest Japan’s decision to release water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. Police periodically dispersed crowds,…
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Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Read more: Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul ConventionIt has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey. When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree at midnight last Friday, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, women poured onto the streets…
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Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice
Read more: Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justiceMarisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t…
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Khalil Bandib: Cartoons that Speak Truth to Power
Read more: Khalil Bandib: Cartoons that Speak Truth to PowerKhalil Bandib is a Berkeley-based, award-winning editorial cartoonist with a unique perspective. He critiques a myriad of topics, from racism and homophobia to foreign policy and the Patriot Act. Bandib was born in North Africa under a French colonist regime;…
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The Courtroom Sketch
Read more: The Courtroom SketchCourtoom sketches were, for many cases, the only glimpses into high profile trails that captivated the nation. Now, over 200 of these sketches by artists will be in the Library of Congress, ranging from cases such as The Rodney King…
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Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive country
Read more: Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive countryOpponents of military rule in Myanmar have marched, observed “flower strikes” and sought alternative ways to communicate after most users were cut off from the internet, undaunted by the bloody suppression of protests during the past two months. The authorities,…
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The powerful images of Hong Kong’s protests
Read more: The powerful images of Hong Kong’s protestsThe face of Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam is falling apart: an eyeball has fallen out of its socket and the flesh of her left chin has been ripped off. Black-clad protesters in yellow hard hats are standing on…
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Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in Brazil
Read more: Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in BrazilFrom a distance they look like supermarket promotion ads, but up close, the text says the reverse: it details the skyrocketing food prices. This is the proposal of the action “Bolsocaro”, which spread posters (those known as lambe-lambes) by walls…
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Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”
Read more: Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’…