Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Plutos: Chronicles of the Superrich
Read more: Plutos: Chronicles of the SuperrichTitle 18, Part 1, Chapter 17 of the United States Criminal Code: “Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt…
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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education
Read more: UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public educationOn Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female first-year students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public…
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Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 Percent
Read more: Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 PercentBy Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones. Various Artists Occupy This Album Music for Occupy Like the ’60s-era social movements that inspired the performers at Woodstock, the Occupy movement has proved an irresistible draw to musicians. Dropping in on Zuccotti Park last…
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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Read more: Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore ManafacturingFrom the Games for Change website: Through a series of thirty challenging levels players must balance the unreasonable demands of Boss, the temperamental factory owner and Boy, a gentle, hard-working child labourer. Together, the team must work to make the…
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Read more: EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a “game for change”? EVOKE is what happens. In this “game” players from all over the world are immersed in a…
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People’s History Markers
Read more: People’s History MarkersThe Howling Mob Society has created ten historical markers representing history from the perspective of the working class. In particular, these markers detail events and significant locations from the Great Strike of 1877 – a historical event in Pittsburgh’s labor…
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Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auction
Read more: Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auctionAmidst a crowd of protesters and oversized signs, Pat Walsh shouted, “What’s disgusting? Union busting?” At a glance, Walsh, a woman with well-kept gray hair and an open smile, didn’t strike one as the usual angry protester. But that night,…
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Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territory
Read more: Organizing against Bank of America in enemy territoryThis week, thousands are descending on North Carolina for the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. The protest comes on the heels of the successful Wells Fargo shareholder event in San Francisco, where thousands of protesters shut down the conference, and…
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Support Breasts, Not Dictators
Read more: Support Breasts, Not DictatorsBarbed-wire bra protest over Burma investment BBC News Monday, 10 December, 2001 Triumph International, a leading European luxury lingerie firm, is facing a fierce boycott campaign because of its operations in Burma. Under the slogan “Support Breasts – not Dictators”,…
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Mobile Homeless Homes
Read more: Mobile Homeless HomesMuppets Revenge Joey Skaggs, www.artoftheprank.com At 11:00 a.m., April 23, 2012, artist Joey Skaggs will lead a band of outraged costumed muppets down to the Goldman Sachs offices at 200 West Street in NYC. Skaggs will be peddling his Mobile…