Projects tagged
Violence & War
-
Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides
Read more: Elegy: GTA USA Gun HomicidesA computer game as a data visualizer – a daily reenactment of the total number of USA gun homicides since January 1st, 2018. The project works from a daily update of gun homicides as scraped from the Gun Violence Archive.…
-
Drawing For Peace
Read more: Drawing For PeaceAaron Hughes, an artist-activist and Iraq War veteran walked into the middle of a busy intersection in Champaign, Il. where he was then going to college, and propped up a signboard that read: “I am an Iraq War Veteran. I…
-
Chicago Gun Share Program
Read more: Chicago Gun Share Program‘Gun-sharing’ stations in Chicago use art to make a point about gun violence. Users can’t actually grab a gun from the stations, but its creators hope the installation will send a message about how disturbingly easy it is for a…
-
A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Read more: A Handmaid’s Tale of ProtestIn state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes…
-
Shine MSD
Read more: Shine MSDShine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to…
-
Outrage in China over pressure on student to stop activism amid growing Me Too movement
Read more: Outrage in China over pressure on student to stop activism amid growing Me Too movementBEIJING – Before Yue Xin became a central figure in China’s burgeoning movement against sexual harassment, she recorded herself singing a revamped version of the 1960s pop classic “Que Sera Sera.” “Will we be equal? Will we be free?” sang…
-
Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin
Read more: Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in BerlinIt was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in…
-
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Read more: National Memorial for Peace and JusticeThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and…
-
Waltz with Bashir
Read more: Waltz with BashirHe had served in the army, either as a full-time soldier or as a reservist, for 22 years when he finally decided he wanted out. In 2003, Ari Folman, who had just turned 40, asked his commanders in the Israel…
-
Students at March for Our Lives Wear $1.05 Price Tags to Call Out Marco Rubio
Read more: Students at March for Our Lives Wear $1.05 Price Tags to Call Out Marco RubioStudents at the March for Our Lives rallies across the country and world today, March 24, are wearing a “price tag” of $1.05. The reason? March organizers have argued that $1.05 is the amount each student is worth to Florida…