Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic Activism
Read more: Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic ActivismFrom calling out poverty in his lyrics to his support of coding, the legendary artist pushed the world to care about more than music. With the sudden, tragic passing of Prince on Thursday, people are taking to social media to…
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Read more: Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification SignsSince Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season. “GENTRIFICATION IS THE NEW COLONIALISM,” “NOT…
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Street Artist Plants Secret Rooms in Milan’s Abandoned Manholes
Read more: Street Artist Plants Secret Rooms in Milan’s Abandoned ManholesThroughout the Lodi district of Milan, Italy, artist Biancoshock has transformed abandoned manholes into miniature subterranean rooms. Beneath the pavement, in vacant maintenance vaults, a cupid painting in a gaudy frame hangs in a tiny pink living room; a boxy…
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The Girl Effect
Read more: The Girl EffectThe Girl Effect 2010 video “The Clock is Ticking” receives premiere at Clinton Global Initiative • “The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking” video shown to world leaders at the Girls and Women opening plenary of CGI, Tuesday 21 September…
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Good Chance Theatre
Read more: Good Chance TheatreSurrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants…
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The Panama Papers
Read more: The Panama PapersA giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. External sources: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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Burners Without Borders
Read more: Burners Without BordersBurners Without Borders (BWB) is a grassroots, volunteer-driven, community leadership organization whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems that bring about meaningful change. Supporting volunteers from around the world in innovative disaster relief solutions…
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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Read more: Protest Posters for Fees Must FallDaniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Read more: Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co. “This ‘street art’ exhibition [featuring 250 works of street art, some of which were removed from their original public…
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Rebel Music: Native America
Read more: Rebel Music: Native AmericaFrank Waln, a 25 year old Native American hip hop artist, tours the country and Canada performing and teaching motivational workshops to students across the country. He took to rap at a young age when he found a cd (Eminem’s…