Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Complementary Currency Project
Read more: Complementary Currency ProjectInitially organized to respond to holes in service provision following Hurricane Katrina, Burners Without Borders has since 2005 “emerged as a community led, grassroots group that encourages innovative, civic participation that creates positive change locally.” One ongoing project headed by…
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Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at Wesleyan
Read more: Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at WesleyanAfter collecting street art and memorabilia from “Occupy Wall Street” since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center. The posters will make…
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Flip the Debt Clock
Read more: Flip the Debt ClockOn Monday, a grassroots, anti–corporate tax-dodging coalition called Flip the Debt crashed a “Fix the Debt” party at St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire hosted by Honeywell CEO David Cote to tell the gathered deficit hawk disciples that paying their…
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No nos vamos, nos echan
Read more: No nos vamos, nos echanThe “no nos vamos, nos echan” campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced…
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Upper Class Safari
Read more: Upper Class SafariWhen the activist group Allt åt Alla wanted to highlight the growing inequality in Sweden they decided to hit the road. A Over Class Safari (Överklassafari) was announced and ticket were sold. The bus ride covered both a working area…
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Will Work for Empty Wallets
Read more: Will Work for Empty WalletsA mixture of a social cause with a creative vision, this visual art exhibit is dedicated to the millions of unemployed citizens and veteran’s in the United States. Constructed out of 1284 used empty wallets from over 2,000 donated nation…
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Loophole for All
Read more: Loophole for AllLoophole for All is a service to democratize offshore business for people who don’t want to pay for their riches. It empowers everyone to evade taxes, hide money and debt, and get away with anything by stealing the identities of…
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Stella McCartney Designs Shirts for Red Nose Day
Read more: Stella McCartney Designs Shirts for Red Nose DayThis action, to be released to the wider public this Friday, March 15th, was the design of t-shirts in support of British Charity, Comic Relief, an organization dedicated to bringing positive and lasting change to vulnerable youth communities in Europe…
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Party at the Unemployment Office
Read more: Party at the Unemployment OfficeThe crisis is here, let the party begin! April 30, 2009. At first the crisis was just a state of being, a kind of social sadness that paralyzed everything. To break this atmosphere we couldn’t think of anything better than…
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Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
Read more: Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality“I want to show the people how bad the troubles were,” says artist Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim of Mogadishu, Somalia. “That’s the message we’re going to send to people.” (Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times) External sources: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/19/world/la-fg-somalia-artists-20120920