Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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DC Comics to Publish Comic Books about Privilege and Power
Read more: DC Comics to Publish Comic Books about Privilege and PowerFollowing in the strong tradition of using graphic novels to explore social ills, DC Comics is releasing two new politically activist issues in their “New 52” series. The first is called “The Movement” and is written by Gail Simone. Simone…
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Gangnam Style Used in Protests in China
Read more: Gangnam Style Used in Protests in ChinaIn early January, constructions workers in Wuhan, China staged a Gangnam Style protest in front of their employer’s building. Using the Gangnam Style dance, the men sought to bring media attention to their mounting unpaid wages. Several men are owed…
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Occupy Small Street
Read more: Occupy Small StreetFirst Inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, #occupysmallstreet staged its first little protest in Melbourne’s City Square, as part of #F12, International Art + Occupy Day. Signs are made collectively, by regular Arts x Activism and members of the…
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Hotel Voices
Read more: Hotel VoicesThe Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels aka poor people housing in the Bay Area. Hotel Voices theatrically speaks to and educates the…
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Ramiro Gomez, Public Artist Affirms The ‘Human Statement’ Of Hollywood Hills’ Gardeners, Housekeepers
Read more: Ramiro Gomez, Public Artist Affirms The ‘Human Statement’ Of Hollywood Hills’ Gardeners, HousekeepersBy Andrea Long-Chavez The recognizable figure of a Latino gardener is a common sight for most Southern California locals. But if you happen to see the cardboard painting of a gardener propped up against a chain link fence or hedge,…
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Candid Call Centre
Read more: Candid Call CentreFrom March 29 to April 28, 2012, artist Angel Chen transformed Toronto’s Whippersnapper Gallery into a pop-up call centre to field questions on the financial crisis. Phone lines were manned by passers-by, volunteers and guest operators, all of whom solicited…
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Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and Fashion
Read more: Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and FashionOver the course of a semester, fashion hactivist and fashion social justice scholar, Otto Von Busch, facilitated a course on “Critical Fashion and Social Justice,” where graduate fashion students at Parsons design school researched, contextualized and at times critiqued case…
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Abbie Hoffman and Yippies shower money on the NYSE
Read more: Abbie Hoffman and Yippies shower money on the NYSEOne interesting thing about this stunt is that there is no record of it other than the Yippies’ wonderful testimony. We believe that it actually happened, but it shows that storytelling is the most important part of any action of…
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Nadia Plesner v Commercialism
Read more: Nadia Plesner v CommercialismDanish 26-year-old art student Nadia Plesner designed this T-shirt depicting a Darfurian child holding a Louis Vuitton handbag as commentary on global disparity as it relates to war, developing nations, commercialism, and media. In 2006, the fashion house sued Plesner…
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Decolonize Me
Read more: Decolonize MeDecolonize Me features six contemporary Aboriginal artists whose works challenge, interrogate and reveal Canada’s long history of colonization in daring and innovative ways. Deliberately riffing on the title of Morgan Spurlock’s film, the pop-cultural phenomenon Super Size Me (2004), the…