Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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“Si 8 Do” Seville Poop Project
Read more: “Si 8 Do” Seville Poop ProjectIn the Si 8 Do project, Seville activists convened in a neglected barrio during the Euromediterranean Conference on Sustainable Cities, which was taking place in Seville. To protest the city’s housing policies—selling prime public land to wealthy developers, and neglecting…
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Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)
Read more: Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, along with his church group, was protesting outside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah’s red rock country. Tim decided to take his protest…
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Coal for the rich
Read more: Coal for the richStudents from Colombia College teamed up with Greenpeace and The Yes Men to take on the Chicago coal industry in an elaborate, multi-layered hoax. The group created a scheme to announce that a new coal plant was planned—but instead of…
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Singing to Disrupt Housing Auction
Read more: Singing to Disrupt Housing AuctionDemonstrators aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement sang their way into handcuffs during a Bronx foreclosure auction Monday to protest the housing crisis that continues to plague the borough. They serenaded a courtroom of real estate investors with the…
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Brokers and Police for the Occupation
Read more: Brokers and Police for the OccupationTwo members of the Yes Lab brought a dozen thrift-store suits to Zuccotti Park and asked for volunteers. Then, within earshot of the police, the group made a human microphone announcement about a “highly risky, very arrestable” action. Then, together…
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Ghillie Suits Occupy UBS
Read more: Ghillie Suits Occupy UBSThe Yes Lab collaborated with “Knobotiq” to design an action against UBS, a financial services giant renowned for aiding tax evaders, funding environmental destruction, and getting bailed out by the public. The Yes Lab described it as a mix of…
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Mierdazo
Read more: MierdazoAfter the economic crisis of December 20, 2001 in Argentina, there was a growth in the participation in all types of protests and claims of the different sectors affected by the crisis (against banks by savers, roadblocks and mobilizations of…
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Turning a public toilet into a spa
Read more: Turning a public toilet into a spaFor three days, Ruben Santiago installed, without any official authorization, a hydro-massage shower in a public bathroom in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. The installation also made available to users bath gel, shampoo and towels that were regularly replaced. The…
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Home Improvement Service
Read more: Home Improvement ServiceIn 2011 a protest movement started in Israel. Citizens expressed their demand for a fair distribution of resources, claiming for the lack of housing and maintenance of the buildings and apartments, due to the privatized housing schemes. In these instances…
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Intervention #1
Read more: Intervention #158,241 evictions were conducted in Spain in 2011, mostly through real estate speculation by the Mediterranean Savings Bank. In Intervention #1, the artist created a cooperative through which she contracted a construction worker (who himself had been evicted from his…