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Politics & Government
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Three billboards in Florida target Rubio on guns
Read more: Three billboards in Florida target Rubio on gunsAn online activist group is mimicking the critically acclaimed film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to troll Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., with three rolling billboards in Florida calling for gun control. The group Avaaz created the campaign, which features three…
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Banksy’s new artwork takes aim at arms trade
Read more: Banksy’s new artwork takes aim at arms tradeA new piece of art by Banksy was unveiled in London on Monday in a protest targeting one of the world’s largest arms fairs. The work will be displayed for a week at Art the Arms Fair, an exhibition set…
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Living Pain Art
Read more: Living Pain ArtOften referred to as a ‘living pain’ artist, Petr Pavlensky chooses performance art that often takes form of extreme acts as his political language. Some of his stunts involve sewing his mouth shut in political protest against the incarceration of…
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Glam Up the Midterms
Read more: Glam Up the MidtermsYou think midterm elections are boring? Not this year. Funny Or Die and Billy Eichner are going to Glam Up The Midterms! Only 12% of young people voted during the last midterm election. From the same team that brought you…
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‘Triple Talaq’ Abolition Is Only The Start Of A Larger Campaign For Gender Justice In India
Read more: ‘Triple Talaq’ Abolition Is Only The Start Of A Larger Campaign For Gender Justice In IndiaThe egregious practice that some Muslim men employ to divorce their wives instantaneously and without their consent, merely by uttering the word talaq (divorce) three times, has finally been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Indian Supreme Court. The country’s…
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‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ inspires real-life billboards
Read more: ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ inspires real-life billboardsA pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The movie centers on a grieving mother, angry that the man who raped and killed her daughter still hasn’t been found…
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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Read more: Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activistActor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Mask,” “Liar Liar,” “Ace Ventura,” just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back…
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#wakandathevote
Read more: #wakandathevoteThe Movement for Black Lives recognized a great opportunity to register a whole lot of people to vote: the opening weekend of Black Panther. According to activist Kayla Reed, the campaign has already inspired similar drives all over the country.…
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Black Superheroes Matter
Read more: Black Superheroes MatterWatch Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and you’ll see a charismatic character who fills a void in the conflicted do-gooder group. This T’Challa is accessible, awe-inspiring and perhaps most importantly, human. “I think the question that…
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#MuslimVDay
Read more: #MuslimVDay“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day…