Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Church protest reveals realities of life in modern Bethlehem
Read more: Church protest reveals realities of life in modern BethlehemThe Rev Lucy Winkett is having trouble sleeping. This is because her church on Piccadilly has decided to erect a full-size copy of the Israeli separation barrier to block off her Christopher Wren church. And because she lives above the…
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Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh Ardavan
Read more: Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh ArdavanCharged with participating in demonstrations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soudabeh Ardavan was held for eight years (1981-1989) in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. She found sanity and solace through the forbidden activities of drawing and painting, secretly producing paint…
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LGBT Activists Hijack McDonalds’ Hashtag and Create a Parody #CheersToSochi Website to Raise Awareness about Russia’s anti-LGBT Laws
Read more: LGBT Activists Hijack McDonalds’ Hashtag and Create a Parody #CheersToSochi Website to Raise Awareness about Russia’s anti-LGBT LawsOn January 21, 2014, McDonald’s asked its customers to tweet supportive messages to the Olympians who would compete in the Sochi Games, along with the hashtag #CheersToSochi. However, within a couple of days, LGBT activists essentially hijacked the hasthtag from…
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A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot Police
Read more: A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot PoliceBy: Patrick Randall KIEV — Several thousand pro-European Ukrainians demonstrated in the capital for President Viktor Yanukovych’s resignation over the weekend. One man even played the piano in front of Ukranian riot police on Kiev’s Independence Square. The movement, known…
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ARTICULO 6: Narratives of gender, strength and politics
Read more: ARTICULO 6: Narratives of gender, strength and politics“ARTICULO 6: narratives of gender, strength and politics” is an activist design project that aims to raise awareness about the case of forced sterilizations implemented during the government of Alberto Fujimori in Peru. The name of the project refers to…
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Gangnam for Freedom
Read more: Gangnam for FreedomEarlier this year Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei recorded a gangnam style video, dancing handcuffed, sending a message to the Chinese authorities who responded by banning the video as soon as it came online. British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor made a…
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Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional Vote
Read more: Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional VoteThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to defend the domestic spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA). On July 23, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged a billboard at Bayshore Boulevard…
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Standing Man – Duran Adam
Read more: Standing Man – Duran AdamOn June the 18th 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey suddenly a man appeared on Taksim Square, just standing there. After more than 2 weeks of peaceful protest against the ruling Prime Minister and his party AKP Taksim Square is still the…
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MTA Posters
Read more: MTA PostersCome across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne…
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The Poster Workshop
Read more: The Poster WorkshopBetween the late 1960s and 1970s numerous alternative printshops were set up across the UK, with the founding objective of producing, providing or facilitating the cheap and safe printing of radical materials. They were started by libertarians, aligned and non-aligned…