Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Young Women For Change: Fashion as Activism
Read more: Young Women For Change: Fashion as ActivismFounded in April 2011, Young Women for Change (YWC) is an independent non-profit organization committed to empowering Afghan women and improving their lives through social, economical , political empowerment, participation, awareness and advocacy. YWC was co-founded by Noorjahan Akbar and…
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Out in Schools
Read more: Out in SchoolsOut in Schools is a high school outreach initiative that has received acclaim from parents and educators across British Columbia since 2004. The Out in Schools program uses age-appropriate film and video presentations to engage youth and educators on issues…
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San Francisco Mime Troupe performs L’amant Militaire
Read more: San Francisco Mime Troupe performs L’amant MilitaireThe San Francisco Mine Troupe has been staging radical political theater for over fifty years. In 1967, the Troupe toured campuses across the midwest, performing L’amant Militaire – a satirized adaptation of an old anti-war play, updated to critique US…
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PAWA 254
Read more: PAWA 254Kenyan-based photographer Boniface Mwangi has captured his country’s political and civic turmoil since the controversial presidential election in 2007. The violence and disorder he witnesses daily motivated him to take action, setting up a creative hub for activism called PAWA…
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Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns”
Read more: Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns”An artist in Culiacan, Mexico—which has the highest rate of gun deaths in the country—has found a way to transform the agents of death into seeds of life. In 2008, artist Pedro Reyes started running television ads urging locals to…
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Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest Violence
Read more: Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest ViolenceIn the capital of one of the world’s most dangerous countries, a hooded, masked man jumped out of a car on an assault mission. His target: a crumbling wall on a garbage-strewn corner. With his accomplice acting as lookout, the…
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And babies.
Read more: And babies.Ronald Haeberle took a color photograph of the bloody corpses of men, women, and children after the Mai Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War in in March 1968, initially publishing it in Life magazine. Later the image was used by…
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FUBAR for Valentine’s Day
Read more: FUBAR for Valentine’s DayThis past Valentine’s Day the Fresh Juice Party pulled another “art prank;” this time sending chocolate shaped as dead American soldiers and sent them to U.S. government officials, especially to the previous Bush administration. This prank while very effective in…
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100 Faces of War Experience
Read more: 100 Faces of War ExperienceOn completion the 100 Faces project will consist of 100 Portraits of Americans who have been to the theaters of war in Iraq or Afghanistan (OEF,OIF). Each portrait is accompanied by a placard featuring a statement written by the person…
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Pray The Devil Back to Hell
Read more: Pray The Devil Back to HellPray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won…