Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells Fargo
Read more: Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells FargoOn the eve of Wells Fargo’s annual shareholders meeting in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday, home defenders, students, community groups, and activists in ten cities took peaceful action against the bank. Petitions signed by thousands of people were delivered to…
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Gandhi’s Salt March to the Sea
Read more: Gandhi’s Salt March to the SeaIn 1930, the Indian National Congress adopted satyagraha (essentially, nonviolent protest) as their main tactic in their campaign for independence. Mahatma Gandhi was appointed to develop a plan of action; he proposed marching to the sea to make salt in…
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Art Inspection notices
Read more: Art Inspection noticesBogus building inspection notices with the forged signature of city Building Inspection Director Frank Chiu appeared on buildings in San Francisco’s South of Market area, prompting an investigation by exasperated city officials. Project LOFT, as posted in July 2000: “In…
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“You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world record
Read more: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world recordOn October 6th, 2007, we beat a new world record. Thousands of people in cities all across Spain simultaneously shouted: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE!” The decibels radiating from this collective cry were registered by…
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Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social Justice
Read more: Health Care Not Wealth Care: Posters on Health Activism and Social JusticeThe Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation have combined forces to bring 75 powerful and engaging poster works on broad issues of health care to audiences traditionally excluded from the art world in…
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Documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico
Read more: Documentary Vietnam, Puerto RicoPuerto Rico doesn’t know what’s going on here, and if they do, they’re ignoring us.” So opens Gabriel Miranda’s documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico. Focused on the coastal community of Vietnam, which is located in the Guaynabo, the doc tells the…
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The Privilege of Escape
Read more: The Privilege of EscapeFor an art project about the effects of white privilege and the disturbing ways in which its effects are built into our society, Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape is a surprisingly fun, even enjoyable experience. The first public artwork…
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Org Brings Women Menstrual Products & Education To Global Level
Read more: Org Brings Women Menstrual Products & Education To Global LevelAlthough we are in the supposedly modern and advanced year of 2020, there are still at least 500 million women and girls that lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management, according to the World Bank Organization. One of the specific…
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Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone
Read more: Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police DroneA technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn’t use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead,…
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COUNTERSPACE
Read more: COUNTERSPACECounterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired…