Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Labs Creates Sustainable Music Studios in Unlikely Places
Read more: Labs Creates Sustainable Music Studios in Unlikely PlacesIt started as an experiment: what happens when you equip a vibrant youth community with the resources to express themselves through hip hop and electronic music? Last summer I traveled to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo to find out and…
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Ridiculously Rich for Rove
Read more: Ridiculously Rich for RoveIn 2009, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Karl Rove to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many groups of activists responded. Students for a Democratic Society organized a loud demonstration in…
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to SmileStop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women’s voices, and faces, and…
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Cop d’ ull
Read more: Cop d’ ullThis project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. “Cop d’ ull” means a “a blow…
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Afghan Grafitti artist Malina Suliman Refuses to Back Down
Read more: Afghan Grafitti artist Malina Suliman Refuses to Back DownAfter Afghan artist Malina Suliman’s father suffered a brutal attack in their hometown of Kandahar, the Suliman family fled to Mumbai, where they plan on staying until the end of March. Malina is a 23 year-old grafitti artist whose work…
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175 HECTARS
Read more: 175 HECTARSOn 27th January 2013, the participatory project titled 175 hectares has run through the streets of the city of Trento (Italy). All the community has traced a line of white chalk that measures 6.3 km and the area included was…
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The People v Barack Obama
Read more: The People v Barack ObamaI am a federal criminal defense attorney and have written a formal legal brief in response to the Obama Administration’s White Paper attempting to justify the killing of American citizens without due process. The brief is a new form fusion…
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Warscape Sonata – Bala Perdida
Read more: Warscape Sonata – Bala PerdidaWarscape Sonata is a transmedia project that documents and perform audiovisual information related to the current drug war in Mexico. Twitter hashtags, youtube viral videos and mass media are used as creative sources to document the militarized Mexico. This digital…
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Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
Read more: Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality“I want to show the people how bad the troubles were,” says artist Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim of Mogadishu, Somalia. “That’s the message we’re going to send to people.” (Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times) External sources: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/19/world/la-fg-somalia-artists-20120920
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V-Day
Read more: V-DayV-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the…