Wealth & Poverty – Page 22 – Actipedia | A Wiki for Creative Activism

Santa Claus Army

Practitioner:
Solvognen

Date:
Dec 25 1974

In the early 1970s, Denmark was hit by the energy crisis sweeping the globe. A rise in the price of oil led by the nations of OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) led to a global economic slow-down, especially in…

ACTIVISTS POUR CONCRETE OVER ‘ANTI-HOMELESS’ SPIKES

Practitioner:
London Black Revolutionaries

Date:
Dec 25 1974

The war against London’s “anti-homeless” spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro on Regent Street, before…

China’s Underground Hiphop

Practitioner:
In3er

Date:
Dec 25 1974

China’s underground hiphop became an art movement since early 2000s. With characteristics of self-expression, localization and social criticism, Chinese hip hop music quickly gained popularity among students and working-class Chinese. Some notable music groups from Beijing include Yin Ts’ang (隐藏)…

Poop Protest

Practitioner:
Hongkongers

Date:
Dec 25 1974

A mainland couple allowed their 2-year-old son to relieve himself by the road at Mangkok, Hong Kong and conflicted with local pedestrians who took photos of the child caused quite a stir among Chinese netizens. While the majority of mainland…

Immigrant Movement International

Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera

Date:
Dec 25 1974

Immigrant Movement International (IM) is a community space in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Founded in 2011 as a partnership between artist Tania Bruguera and the Queens Museum, with support from Creative Time, the project, inspired by Bruguera’s…

Real Cost of Prisons

Practitioner:
Real Cost of Prisons

Date:
Dec 25 1974

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, begun in 2000.…

The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980

Practitioner:
James Fuentes

Date:
Dec 25 1974

James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Lower East Side Through April 27 This messy scrapbook of an exhibition reprises “The Real Estate Show,” a semifamous exhibition that opened on New Year’s Eve 1979 in a vacant, city-owned building on Delancey Street.…

The Dark Side of Creative Activism – Sudanese Refugees in Tel Aviv

Practitioner:
Michael Ben-Ari and Itamar Ben-Gvir

Date:
Dec 25 1974

Unfortunately, those who struggle for a more equal and democratic society are not the only ones who can make use of creative forms of activism. The following example shows how creative strategies can also be employed by those who have…

Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America

Practitioner:
MicCheckWallSt

Date:
Dec 25 1974

(Taken from Group’s Event Statement): “The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let’s return the favor…” “While drawing…

Money Shouldn’t Talk Silent Vigils & Marches

Practitioner:
MicCheck Wall Street

Date:
Dec 25 1974

Beginning in January 2012, MicCheckWallSt, a subsidiary of Seattle’s Occupy Wall Street group, began performing a series of silent vigils and marches throughout shopping areas and in front of banks in various Seattle neighborhoods. Images are from the first silent…