Projects tagged
Politics & Government
-
If I could say to America
Read more: If I could say to AmericaIf I could say to America poses an open moment of opportunity for citizens from around the globe: if you could say anything to America, what would it be? Ambiguous but not ambivalent, if I could say to America is…
-
Decolonize Me
Read more: Decolonize MeDecolonize Me features six contemporary Aboriginal artists whose works challenge, interrogate and reveal Canada’s long history of colonization in daring and innovative ways. Deliberately riffing on the title of Morgan Spurlock’s film, the pop-cultural phenomenon Super Size Me (2004), the…
-
A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%
Read more: A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%A is for Activism is a children’s book developed by Innosanto Nagara, an author illustrator and founding member of the Design Action Collective, a worker owned cooperative design studio in Oakland that is dedicated to “serving the Movement.” The book…
-
Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
Read more: Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museumsBRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. “In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy,”…
-
Book Bloc
Read more: Book BlocThe book bloc constitutes a line of demonstrators holding cardboard-polyurethane-and-foam shields that are made to resemble giant book covers. This tactic tends to be used in actions that oppose neoliberal reform of education and libraries, especially in the form of…
-
“Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisis
Read more: “Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisisIn 2008, Iceland was in turmoil. There was a systematic failure of its three main commercial banks. The Economist called the collapse the largest suffered by any country in history, relative to Iceland’s population size. In response to what was…
-
A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin
Read more: A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon MartinA march took place Wednesday evening in Manhattan calling for justice in the case of Trayvon Martin. He was an unarmed black teenager who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month. In New York,…
-
Resist developers with naked body in Macau
Read more: Resist developers with naked body in MacauIn 2011, nine local artists staged a performance called “Let’s Add 1 Meter to Taipa Pequena (Sio Tam Hill)” in Macau, protesting against the controversial attempted rezoning of the mountain for high-rise construction by the developers. They lied on top…
-
Dream Kites
Read more: Dream KitesCultureStrike, the national arts and activism group, teamed up with undocumented youth and NY-based artist Miguel Luciano to hold a kite-based symbolic public art project in Washington D.C. The kites were flown over the National Mall and the White House…
-
GIMME THE POWER
Read more: GIMME THE POWERDirected by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than…