Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Sima Qian: China’s ‘grand historian’
Read more: Sima Qian: China’s ‘grand historian’Sima Qian: China’s ‘grand historian’ By Carrie Gracie BBC News, Beijing Speaking truth to power has always been a high-risk strategy in China. Its rulers tend to prefer flattery, and writers who forget this do so at their peril. China’s…
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Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Read more: Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran“A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the…
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Read more: Aboriginal Tent EmbassyIn the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the US, Aboriginal people were politically very active. In Sydney, Australia’s first Aboriginal legal and medical services were founded. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they lived…
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Nowhereisland
Read more: NowhereislandNowhereisland was an island which journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the south west coast of England in summer 2012. As it made this epic journey, it travelled through international waters, whereupon it became the world’s newest…
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Stop Frisk Tourist T- Shirts
Read more: Stop Frisk Tourist T- ShirtsAt Souvenir Stands, Selling Tourists on Ending Stop-and-Search By COREY KILGANNON New York Times, City Blog, August 27, 2012 Last week, a 37-year-old artist from Oakland, Calif., named Aaron Gach joined the crowds of tourists swarming the sidewalk souvenir stands…
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Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest
Read more: Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for ProtestDEPENDING on your taste, punk died in 1979, or maybe 1994, or whenever studded leather cuffs became a must-have mall-girl accessory. Now, suddenly, punk has been resurrected, stitched together anew in the form of the well-accessorized Russian women who call…
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The Condom on Jesse Helms’ House
Read more: The Condom on Jesse Helms’ HouseOn September 5th, 1991, I put a giant condom over Jesse Helms’ house. Why? Because, as the condom said, “Helms is deadlier than a virus.” Senator Jesse Helms was one of the chief architects of AIDS-related stigma in the U.S.…
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#ProjectTMI
Read more: #ProjectTMIProject TMI: The Feminist Humor Defense Against the Assault on Our Bodies by Ramey Connelly, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project t’s a strange sensation to start something as a joke, expecting that only your friends on Facebook will see it, and then…
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Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Read more: Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial ComplexWHAT: Noise Demo WHEN: 8:00pm, Saturday, May 12th WHERE: Bayview Correctional Facility – West 20th Street & 11th Avenue New York, New York COST: Free As the Global Class War continues to heat up, the state continues its ongoing use…
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Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.
Read more: Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.By Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie, Special to the Los Angeles Times René Pérez, lead singer of Puerto Rican alternative urban group Calle 13, knows a thing or two about teeing people off. Since the release of Calle 13’s self-titled debut album…