Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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Corset
Read more: CorsetArtists: Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor Art Education Adelphi University and Teaching Artist with Artistic Noise and girls ages 13-17 from the Brentwood Residential Center on Long Island. This bra/corset is a collaborative work by Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor of Art…
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activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subways
Read more: activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subwaysNew York activists responded to a recent anti-Muslim subway campaign by plastering stickers over ads depicting the World Trade Center in flames, juxtaposed with text quoting the Koran. The day-glow orange and yellow stickers warn “Caution: This is war propaganda.…
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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,…
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White supremacist rally “clowned” by counter protest
Read more: White supremacist rally “clowned” by counter protestCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say no one was arrested during a loud – and very colorful – KKK rally and counter-protest in uptown Charlotte Saturday afternoon. Members of the National Socialist Movement joined the Ku Klux Klan for an…
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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…
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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…
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Spectres of Liberty
Read more: Spectres of LibertySpectres of Liberty is an on-going public, hybrid media project about the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. Through this project we explore the following questions: How do we make visible histories of people and…
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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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Welcome to Palestine
Read more: Welcome to PalestineWelcome To Palestine by Saed Bannoura Israeli daily Haaretz, reported that 470 of the 1200 persons that Israel blacklisted as “pro-Palestinian” and part of the Welcome To Palestine campaign, were not activists; two of them were a French diplomat and…
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Hoodies and Hijabs at Amnesty International General Meeting
Read more: Hoodies and Hijabs at Amnesty International General Meeting“At the recent Amnesty International Annual General Meeting, we decided to do an action stating we stand with Shaima Alawadi and Trayvon Martin. Check out the action, even Asma Mahfouz, one of the founders of the April 6th Movement in…