Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Flour Bluff students expand education through activism
Read more: Flour Bluff students expand education through activismCORPUS CHRISTI — Many Flour Bluff ISD students have developed an extracurricular activity that takes their education to the streets, to social media and toward a path of change: activism.Much of the students’ passion stems from the April 1 suicide of…
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Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe Streets
Read more: Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe StreetsFrom Women’s News NetworkYEMEN: Even though the connection to the internet has been intermittent at best and often too slow, women advocates in Yemen are now working to push digital tech as a means to improve society and gain human…
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Big Bang Big Boom
Read more: Big Bang Big Boom“For those who haven’t seen it, Big Bang Big Boom (2010) is yet another fabulous animated graffiti parable from the Blu art collective. Their work is endlessly fascinating — animated creatures sliding seamlessly from walls, through sand, along pipes and…
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September 12th: A Toy World
Read more: September 12th: A Toy WorldIn September 12th: A Toy World, the designer Gonzalo Frasca seeks to explore the use of games as a form of interactive op-ed. In the game the player is asked to engage in a simple action of dropping bombs to “take…
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison Corporations
Read more: Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison CorporationsFrom Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison company, shareholder activist Alex Friedmann will have exactly two minutes to speak about the unconventional resolution he introduced earlier this year…
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Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May Day
Read more: Veterans Peace Team, face to face with police on May DayUnlike some of Occupy Wall Street’s iconic actions in recent months, May Day did not include a scene of mass arrest. Several dozen arrests were scattered throughout the day and night during various marches and actions. But, as never before in…
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Morocco protest against rape-marriage law
Read more: Morocco protest against rape-marriage lawBy Nora Fakim, BBC News Several hundred women’s rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco’s parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence. Morocco’s penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor…
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Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme Band
Read more: Lt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandLt. Pepper’s Lonely Art Meme BandJohn Heartfield it’s not, but the viral photocollage campaign immortalizing the nonchalant thuggery of Lt. John Pike, the campus policeman at UC Davis who was documented on Friday, November 18, pepper-spraying peacefully seated Occupy-movement protesters,…
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Dancing in Syria
Read more: Dancing in SyriaIn Protests, Syrians Find the Spark of Creativity By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — You could call it the dance-athon to dislodge a despot. Among protesters across the Arab world, Syrians —particularly the restive residents of Homs…
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Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG Project
Read more: Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG ProjectIn the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC, sexual violence is a community-wide problem. Rape, in the DRC has been used as a weapon of war and sadly continues to increase even after. According to the peacebuilding NGO Search for…