Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Spec Ops: The Line
Read more: Spec Ops: The LineOften in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they…
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Above and Beyond Memorial
Read more: Above and Beyond Memorial“The massive “Above and Beyond Memorial” will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for…
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…
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Operation Christmas
Read more: Operation ChristmasOperation Christmas was a campaign launched by the Colombian military during the Christmas season to encourage FARC guerrillas to demobilize.[1] The military selected nine 75-foot trees along paths the insurgents used and decorated them with Christmas lights and a message…
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Cuckooed
Read more: CuckooedTheater as investigative reporting or investigative reporting as theater, however you cut it, Mark Thomas, a British TV actor/comedian and activist has created a fascinating show. It’s by him and about him: how he ran stings that put some illegal…
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Yoga Joes
Read more: Yoga JoesIf something is a total opposite to war, that is the practice of yoga. Concentrating or relaxing your muscles and mind in order to release tension, is something a soldier would never have the luxury to do under the dangerous…
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Action Man! Battlefied Casualties
Read more: Action Man! Battlefied CasualtiesA commercial for action figures, after the action. Working towards a campaign to raise the age of recruitment in the UK. Action Man: Battlefield Casualties from Veterans For Peace UK on Vimeo. BattlefieldCasualties.co.uk A Veterans for Peace UK film, directed…
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#manifestjustice
Read more: #manifestjusticeIn the wake of the amount of police brutality that has been occurring since the dawn of the damn police, an institution that began as a way to find escaped slaves, across the United States, #manisfestjustice chooses to make its…
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Syria: Third Space
Read more: Syria: Third SpaceThis exhibition is a collection of work by displaced Syrian artists. With the support of the British Council, ‘Syria: Third Space’ demonstrates the roles that artists play in supporting recovery and resilience. It seeks to show how artists can break…
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Shoot
Read more: Shoot“I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie. We see people being shot on TV, we read about it in the newspaper. Everybody has wondered what it’s like. So I did it.” – Chris…