Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Rolling Jubilee
Read more: Rolling JubileeAcross the United States, 2,693 people have received a letter in the last few months, which identified a debt and read: “You are no longer under any obligation to settle this account with the original creditor, the bill collector, or…
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MicCheckWallSt Fourth of July Money Drop
Read more: MicCheckWallSt Fourth of July Money DropOn July 4, 2012, several members of MicCheckWallSt, a subsidiary group of Seattle’s larger Occupy Wall Street that formed in December, 2011, anonymously checked into a room at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in Downtown Seattle. From the 20th floor they…
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Flash Mob Block Party
Read more: Flash Mob Block Party27Million aims to combat human sex trafficking and modern day slavery. They state that they are “a group of passionate individuals that are on a mission to network and resource grassroots organizations that are the frontlines of rescuing, rehabilitating, and…
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Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction Crisis
Read more: Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction CrisisThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of bus shelter ads to confront San Francisco’s eviction crisis. On February 11, 2014, the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged bus shelter advertisements throughout San Francisco. The ads…
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APEC World Leaders Dinner Gets Occupied
Read more: APEC World Leaders Dinner Gets OccupiedA change in the programmed entertainment at last night’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gala left a few world leaders slack-jawed, though most seemed not to notice that anything was amiss. During the gala dinner, renowned Hawaiian guitarist Makana, who performed…
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Clowns Arrested in Near-Successful Attack on Wall Street Bull
Read more: Clowns Arrested in Near-Successful Attack on 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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“Superheros” Occupy the NYC Halloween Parade
Read more: “Superheros” Occupy the NYC Halloween ParadeNo matter how nuanced current superhero comics may be, to the general public they are still fairly simple. Superheroes are the good guys, supervillians are the bad guys, and it’s easy to see who is who. That’s why kids like…
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GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Read more: GULF Protest at the GuggenheimLast night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours. Unfurling mylar banners, dropping leaflets, chanting words, handing out information to museum visitors, and drawing attention with the use of…
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The Merit Shop
Read more: The Merit ShopThis shop is more interested in people than it is in profits. If you’ve got some mad dance skills, or even just some mediocre ones, you can purchase a variety of goods at The Merit Shop in San Francisco. The…
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190 Bowery Street
Read more: 190 Bowery StreetI went on a graffiti tour that went through NOHO, SOHO and the Lower East Side last weekend. We saw works by street artists – Space Invader and Roa – that were remarkable. Roa had created a commissioned mural of…