Projects tagged
Violence & War
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SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACE
Read more: SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACEOne film to change the world. Curated every month. BURDEN OF PEACE follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. Throughout April 2018 a global audience came together to watch BURDEN OF PEACE,…
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De-Cruit
Read more: De-CruitThe failure of the United States to adequately meet the mental health needs of its military veterans has been identified as a national crisis. When men and women enlist in the military they have a Recruiter. The Recruiter helps with…
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LOGIC’S ‘1-800-273-8255’ OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTH
Read more: LOGIC’S ‘1-800-273-8255’ OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTHLogic, a rapper known to incorporate meaningful messages with his music, recently released his newest track, “1-800-273-8255.” Covering topics of depression and suicide, the song and its subsequent music video uses the phone number of a national suicide hotline as…
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East Side Gallery
Read more: East Side GallerySince the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the cement segments that remain have stood as something more symbolic than just a wall. With installations in every continent, except for Antarctica, the East Side Gallery is the…
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Don’t Cover Up, Set Up – Chinese Women Against Domestic Violence
Read more: Don’t Cover Up, Set Up – Chinese Women Against Domestic ViolenceThe video DON’T COVER UP, STEP UP is a public service announcement raising the issue of gender-based violence. In the video, a vlogger teaches her fans how to cover up bruises with makeup after she has been beaten by her…
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Thousands of Ghanaians protest controversial military deal with U.S.
Read more: Thousands of Ghanaians protest controversial military deal with U.S.Thousands of people protested in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday against the expansion of its defence cooperation with the United States, in a rare public display of opposition to the growing foreign military presence in West Africa. Demonstrators blowing vuvuzelas…
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Read more: Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTIONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…
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Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violence
Read more: Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violenceWASHINGTON — Thousands of shoes were laid outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to represent children who have been killed by gun violence. Avaaz, an international advocacy group, planned the demonstration to honor victims killed since the massacre…
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Capitol Lawn Covered in 7,000 Pairs of Shoes
Read more: Capitol Lawn Covered in 7,000 Pairs of ShoesProtesters left 7,000 pairs of shoes in front of the Capitol building Tuesday to symbolize the number of children killed by gun violence in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012. From 8:30 am…
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Avy Search and Rescue Drone
Read more: Avy Search and Rescue DroneA rescue drone for refugees in danger whilst traveling across the Mediterranean Sea. Last year alone, 3,500 refugees perished attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The Avy Search and Rescue Drone is specifically designed to help refugee boats. The drone…