Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Activist Hackers Temporarily Block Putin’s Website
Read more: Activist Hackers Temporarily Block Putin’s WebsiteFrom ReutersBy Vladimir Soldatkin Hackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin’s web site on Wednesday, carrying out a promise to disrupt government information portals two days after his swearing-in for another six-year term that has drawn street protests. The hacker activist…
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Our Bookshelf
Read more: Our Bookshelf“Our Bookshelf is a social network where people can share their ebooks as easily as they can share print books. At the moment, most copyrighted ebooks don’t allow you to share them. This is because when you buy an ebook you…
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Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Read more: Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart ProjectThis is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the history and present of…
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison Corporations
Read more: Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison CorporationsFrom Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison company, shareholder activist Alex Friedmann will have exactly two minutes to speak about the unconventional resolution he introduced earlier this year…
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Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May Day
Read more: Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May DayUnlike some of Occupy Wall Street’s iconic actions in recent months, May Day did not include a scene of mass arrest. Several dozen arrests were scattered throughout the day and night during various marches and actions. But, as never before in…
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Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Read more: Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rightsThere are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing…
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Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Read more: Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a JokeFrom The New York TimeBy BROOK LARMER The cellphone vibrated softly, insistently, echoing off the whitewashed walls of the artist’s studio. It was a Sunday morning in early April, and Wang Bo — an Internet animator better known to his…
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Read more: Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones When Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act last winter, members of the online community Reddit sprang into action. They called their congressmen, spammed Twitter, and did what they do best: hatched…
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Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme Band
Read more: Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandLt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandJohn Heartfield it’s not, but the viral photocollage campaign immortalizing the nonchalant thuggery of Lt. John Pike, the campus policeman at UC Davis who was documented on Friday, November 18, pepper-spraying peacefully seated Occupy-movement protesters,…
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WHO SUCKS THE MOST?
Read more: WHO SUCKS THE MOST?Gum Election Gum Election is a guerilla art project which started in New York City in October 2008. It encouraged people to vote during the presidential election in 2008 and also not to spit out their chewing gum carelessly on…