Politics & Government – Page 70 – Actipedia

Articulo 6 (Action 1)

Practitioner:
Lucia Cuba

Date:
Apr 20 2012

Fashion designer and social scientist, Lucia Cuba, has taken up the task of using fashion as a vehicle to bring attention and awareness around Articulo 6, an article in the Peruvian constitution that declared a law of forced sterilization of…

Pigasus for President

Practitioner:
Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Yippies

Date:
Apr 20 2012

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, the Yippies (Youth International Party) nominated a pig for president, with the campaign pledge: “They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate a president and the people eat…

John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi Photomontages

Practitioner:
John Heartfield

Date:
Apr 20 2012

John Heartfield began to make photomontages as a member of the Berlin branch of international Dada around 1920. Schooled in graphic arts and having worked briefly in animated film, Heartfield (who had anglicized his given name, Helmut Herzfeld, in 1917…

Every Step You Take

Practitioner:
Nino Leitner

Date:
Apr 20 2012

With an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. Every Londoner is on camera about 300 times a day. How could this come about in George Orwell’s mother country? What were the ignition…

Sweeping Out Corruption

Practitioner:
Rio de Paz (Peace Rio)

Date:
Apr 20 2012

Four ministers in Brazil have resigned since January after being implicated in corruption, and on Wednesday, protesters showed they’ve had enough. Protesters planted 594 green and yellow brooms right in front of Brazil’s Congressional building each representing the colors of…

NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear Threats

Practitioner:
Greywater

Date:
Apr 20 2012

In an effort to prepare against chemical, biological and radiological attacks in the New York subway, the New York Police Department has announced plans to release harmless gases into the city’s streets and subway stations to better understand the pathways…

Missile Dick Chicks Take America

Practitioner:
Missile Dick Chicks

Date:
Apr 20 2012

Shortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration’s use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond…

Hip Hop Caucus

Practitioner:
Hip Hop Caucus

Date:
Apr 20 2012

MISSION The mission of the Hip Hop Caucus is to organize young people to be active in elections, policymaking and service projects. We mobilize, educate, and engage young people, ages 14 to 40, on the social, issues that directly impact…

Nameless Vigilantes

Practitioner:
Anonymous

Date:
Apr 20 2012

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is…

Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at Wesleyan

Practitioner:
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Wesleyan University’s Davison Art Center

Date:
Apr 20 2012

After collecting street art and memorabilia from “Occupy Wall Street” since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center. The posters will make…