Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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turn ignorance around – Latinos Admit to Being ‘Murderers,’ ‘Traffickers’ and ‘Thieves’ in Anti-Trump Ad
Read more: turn ignorance around – Latinos Admit to Being ‘Murderers,’ ‘Traffickers’ and ‘Thieves’ in Anti-Trump AdEarlier this week, Republican group Our Principles PAC used presidential candidate Donald Trump’s own words against him in an ad featuring women reading his offensive quotes about the opposite sex. (https://creativity-online.com/work/our-principles-pac-real-quotes-from-do…) Now, the CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of…
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Ghost Protest in Seoul
Read more: Ghost Protest in SeoulHaeryun Kang reported the following for NPR on February 24, 2016: “On the eve of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s third anniversary in office, protesters gathered in Seoul… to condemn the administration’s increasing crackdown on free speech. These protesters were…
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Blindfolding Statues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (no title)
Read more: Blindfolding Statues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (no title)An artist in Brazil, who remains anonymous, placed red blindfolds on the eyes of statues across the city of Rio de Janeiro to protest the country’s political crisis. According to the BBC, the artist explained that “The idea is to…
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Read more: Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co. “This ‘street art’ exhibition [featuring 250 works of street art, some of which were removed from their original public…
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Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump
Read more: Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald TrumpThe video shows an actor as “your drunk neighbor” lipsyncing to real soundbites from Donald Trump. The artists who made the video claim, “If you close your eyes while listening to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, you can see and smell…
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Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet Party
Read more: Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet PartyThe following is Alex King’s description of the founding of the Partido de la Red in Buenos Aires, Argentina: … “a giant Trojan horse trundled through the streets of Buenos Aires…this was how the newly formed Partido de la Red,…
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Activist Hangs Herself in Protest
Read more: Activist Hangs Herself in ProtestA topless activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Paris, to protest against the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The protester, from international women’s rights group Femen, hung from the bridge in an execution-style demonstration on 28…
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Protest against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Read more: Protest against Iranian President Hassan RouhaniA Femen activist, Sarah Constantin, is hanged from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge to call attention to the large number of executions in Iran as she stages a protest against visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris, Thursday,…
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Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Read more: Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New YorkIt may have been a while since you’ve set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in…
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In Mexico City, Comedians Punish Society’s Scofflaws With Humiliation
Read more: In Mexico City, Comedians Punish Society’s Scofflaws With HumiliationActing on a tip from a disgruntled neighbor, two comedians dressed as drag queens confronted parking officers in broad daylight. The pair wanted to know why the officers, who so ruthlessly enforced parking limits, had never so much as given…