Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)
Read more: Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)The Apopalyptics take on tax-dodging multi-national corporations Lyrics below (for subtitles – click – clip sous-titré en français et anglais) Lyrics: Money on an island © O.McEldowney/D.Cole 2012 – www.apopalyptics.com You can keep your money on an island You can…
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Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit Ransom
Read more: Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit RansomThief steals 44 lb golden cookie from the world-renowned Bahlsen Cookie Headquarters in Hanover, Germany earlier this January. Under the guise of Sesame Street’s beloved Cookie Monster, the thief sent the headquarters a ransom note demanding cookies be donated to…
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A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%
Read more: A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%A is for Activism is a children’s book developed by Innosanto Nagara, an author illustrator and founding member of the Design Action Collective, a worker owned cooperative design studio in Oakland that is dedicated to “serving the Movement.” The book…
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“Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisis
Read more: “Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisisIn 2008, Iceland was in turmoil. There was a systematic failure of its three main commercial banks. The Economist called the collapse the largest suffered by any country in history, relative to Iceland’s population size. In response to what was…
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Gay Shame S.F.
Read more: Gay Shame S.F.From the screaming queens of the Stonewall Riots to the contemporary Human Rights Campaign corporate gays, the politics and methods of queer activism have clearly fluxuated. By the late 1970s, the radicalism of stonewall was replaced with a more formal…
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Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinas
Read more: Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinasThe starting point of this artistic project, carried out by MAPA within its Laboratory of Artists in Colombia, is the disappearance of one of the oldest “barrios” downtown Bogotá: El Cartucho. This place, where thousands of people survived for decades…
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Self-barricading for Free Education
Read more: Self-barricading for Free EducationEleven students have locked themselves in the Peter Cooper Suite of the eighth floor of the Cooper Union building to protest the institution’s decision to charge graduate students tuition. “We’re hoping this will show the administration that they aren’t able…
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Feminist Theatre!
Read more: Feminist Theatre!WOW started as an international women’s theatre festival in October of 1980 in NYC. Within 18 months Wow found a permanent location and produced works by women and trans people all year around. In 1984 it moved into its current…
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Jesus: Creative Activist
Read more: Jesus: Creative ActivistRegardless of one’s spiritual ties (or lack thereof) to Christianity, all artistic activists can take a note or two from Jesus’s playbook–the actions of “a radical Mediterranean Jewish peasant building a revolutionary movement two millennia ago.” 1. Jesus: Media Mogul. …
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TEACHINGS OF DIOGENES
Read more: TEACHINGS OF DIOGENESTEACHINGS OF DIOGENES (c. 412- c. 323 B.C ) Diogenes was a very playful philosopher who liked to use great wit when challenging the values and beliefs of his fellow citizens in ancient Athens. He lived in great poverty, probably…