Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling
Read more: Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling“By yesterday afternoon, news of Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime NBA ban had already settled in. But there was still plenty of anger among the protesters who gathered outside the Staples Center Tuesday. With game 5 of the Warriors and…
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Matador almost gets the Wall Street Bull
Read more: Matador almost gets the Wall Street BullThe incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast, traditional ways of coaxing a bull into anger in preparation for a Castilian corrida,…
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Education for all in Public Space
Read more: Education for all in Public SpaceIf you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space.…
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Day Care Center Sit-In
Read more: Day Care Center Sit-InLow-income tenants at a public housing project in Rhode Island — many of them working mothers with young children — wanted an affordable day care center in their building. With petitions, pickets, and letters to the city council, they built…
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Florida Modern Slavery Museum
Read more: Florida Modern Slavery MuseumIn December 2008, farm labor contractors Cesar and Geovanni Navarrete were each sentenced to twelve years in prison for their part in what U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy called “slavery, plain and simple.” According to the Justice Department, the employers “pleaded…
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Rana Plaza Protests at One Year Anniversary
Read more: Rana Plaza Protests at One Year Anniversary“Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the Rana Plaza factory complex on Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the Bangladesh disaster that claimed 1,138 lives. The demonstrators – who included injured survivors and…
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video Game
Read more: Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video GamePart of the following description is taken from an article posted on the website of Digital-Is National Writing Project (link below): In 2005, Global Kids Youth Leaders in the Playing for Keeps program chose to design a game that focused…
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OWS Subway Storytelling
Read more: OWS Subway StorytellingIn the Fall of 2011, after the Occupy Movement was in full swing, and meetings, actions and info sharing had expanded beyond Zuccotti Park, meaningful messaging and outreach tactics were were activated on a near daily basis. Subway Storytelling had…
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Waste Turned Into Homeless Shelters
Read more: Waste Turned Into Homeless SheltersThe following description is taken from Amanda Froelich’s article on www.trueactivist.com (link below): “Dumpster diving is a topic that is rising in popularity. Just take a peek at Rob Greenfield! This activist won’t hesitate before jumping in a dumpster, but…
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How Unemployed People See the World
Read more: How Unemployed People See the WorldEveryone knows that unemployment is one of the most serious problems that plagues society today. Yet, even though this problem is widely acknowledged, it remains difficult for many people to relate to and truly understand the personal hardships that unemployment…