Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper
Read more: FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper“FTSE” is Birmingham-born producer and rapper Sam Manville. As an anti-captialist, he though it would be funny to take the name of the British stock market index (Financial Times and Stock Exchange), but he also jokes the acronym stands for…
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Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike
Read more: Brooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hikeBrooklyn deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to protest rent hike The owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppified names and jacking up prices to illustrate the…
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Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)
Read more: Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)The story of the life and death of Jesus is arguably the most ubiquitous story ever told. Translated to every language, vastly circulated, taught in schools all around the world, conservative groups –except for some exemptions, like Liberation Theology- have…
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Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla Girls
Read more: Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla GirlsNOT READY TO MAKE NICE: GUERRILLA GIRLS BIRTHDAY 30 YEARS AND STILL COUNTING! BLOWOUT PARTY WITH DJ AND CAKE! Friday, May 15 8-10 PM • ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST, NY ALSO AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST,…
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Vespa for Change
Read more: Vespa for ChangeFundacion Voces and Festival Mulafest got together to promote creative ideas for social change. They started a campaign in social media to ask people to donate their Vespa motorcycles. After they collected the Vespas donated by the people, they put…
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Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Read more: Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega“is a conceptual documentary project in which I photographed every Mom and Pop-style cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible, as I walked each block in the city ( CLICK FOR A MAP of my route). I…
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Protesters Unfurl Three-Story Banner
Read more: Protesters Unfurl Three-Story BannerA thirty-nine-foot banner was unfurled in the rotunda of a sparsely-attended Guggenheim Museum this evening, the latest action carried out by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Front (G.U.L.F.) activist group. Decrying labor abuse at the museum’s planned Abu Dhabi outpost, the…
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calling to the creative community
Read more: calling to the creative communityCreative Leaders Walk Free is a movement of millions of people everywhere, fighting to end one of the world’s greatest evils: Modern Slavery. Every person in our community has something unique and valuable to add in the fight to ending…
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The Pigeon Palace
Read more: The Pigeon PalaceReal estate agents and investors with plans to visit an open house in San Francisco Tuesday were greeted with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy…
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Take a Photo, Save a Child
Read more: Take a Photo, Save a ChildOn January 17, 2011, Hong Yuping (洪玉萍), from Fujian Province, contacted Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), about her family’s plight and requested assistance: In June 2009, their son, Yang Weixin (杨伟鑫), then age six,…