Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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“Are You Doing All Right?”
Read more: “Are You Doing All Right?”The following description is taken from the website of Aljazeera America (find link below): In early December, Ju Hyun-u, a student at South Korea’s elite Korea University, taped up two white sheets filled with his handwriting on a campus bulletin…
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Little Sun
Read more: Little SunOlafur Eliasson’s latest project Little Sun was first debuted at the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2012. The global initiative is bringing tiny, sunburst shaped, plastic solar powered LED lights to the most marginalized regions of the world. Elliasson…
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Free University New York City
Read more: Free University New York CityIf 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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Illuminating Rana Plaza: NYFW Protest and Projection
Read more: Illuminating Rana Plaza: NYFW Protest and ProjectionTo protest unethical labor practices in Bangladesh, specifically unsafe working conditions, 99 Pickets, The Illuminator, and Ismail Ferdous took action during New York Fashion Week. 99 Pickets members protested, drawing attention to the question, “How are my clothes really made?”…
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One People Flash Mob
Read more: One People Flash MobOn 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at Occupy SF & Oakland to dance the world awake. Flashmob Produced & Directed by Magalie Bonneau-Marcil of DancingwithoutBorders.org, Video Directed & Edited by Ben Flanigan (BenFlanigan.com), Thanks to our team of…
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For ‘Equal Pay Day’, An ATM That Gives Less Money To Men
Read more: For ‘Equal Pay Day’, An ATM That Gives Less Money To MenAs we’ve already found out, gender inequality exists in all parts of the world, but besides discriminative attitudes, women also suffer from wage discrimination. According to statistics, women’s earnings in the US “were 77% of men’s in 2011”, while in…
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Here Comes the Sun’ in Madrid Unemployment Office
Read more: Here Comes the Sun’ in Madrid Unemployment OfficeFlash Mob. The Beatles 1969 song is a counterpoint to Spain’s soaring unemployment rate (over half of Spanish youth are out of work). External sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBMJAEOvPA https://portside.org/2013-10-12/here-comes-sun-madrid-unemployment-office
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52 weeks in Abu Dhabi
Read more: 52 weeks in Abu DhabiA coalition of international artists has begun a year-long protest against the mistreatment and exploitation of migrant workers building Abu Dhabi’s £17bn cultural hub, including the world’s largest Guggenheim and a branch of the Louvre. Every week for the next…
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Contest Backfires on Social Security Privatizer
Read more: Contest Backfires on Social Security PrivatizerOh, the sweet irony. Pete Peterson is the conservative billionaire who is a major financier in the effort to dismantle, cut and privatize Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Recently he and his foundation held a contest asking folks to submit…
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The Timothy Convention
Read more: The Timothy ConventionTimCon28 was a scavenger hunt that infiltrated the historic Waldorf-Astoria hotel in midtown Manhattan. Under the guise of attending the “Timothy Convention”, forty people explored back passages and service areas, interacted with unsuspecting hotel guests, infiltrated official hotel events like…