Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Read more: The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protestsThe Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons…
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The Rage Against the Machine Performance That Got Them Banned From ‘SNL’
Read more: The Rage Against the Machine Performance That Got Them Banned From ‘SNL’Rage Against the Machine have always been rabble rousers, but the political statement that got them banned from Saturday Night Live sounds positively prosaic compared to other acts of protest they committed in their heyday, like shutting down the New…
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Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of Australia
Read more: Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of AustraliaTwo climate activists scrawled blue ink across a series of Andy Warhol screen prints at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia this week to raise awareness of the country’s fossil fuel subsidies. Images and video of the protest…
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Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas home
Read more: Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas homeArticle written by Katy Barber: A mile-long procession of school buses are headed to Sen. Ted Cruz’s home in Houston on Thursday, July 14. Thursday’s roll-out is the official start of The Yellow Bus Project and Cruz’s house is the…
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Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nuns
Read more: Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nunsAs she puts the finishing touches to her habit, Sister Clarita, a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles, tells me that there are more than 3,000 LGBT+ nuns around the world. They’re part of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an…
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Change the Ref Organisation Campaign Puts Children at the Heart of Warzone’s
Read more: Change the Ref Organisation Campaign Puts Children at the Heart of Warzone’sEnergy BBDO launches its latest activation on behalf of Change The Ref, a leading gun-control organisation which was formed to empower our Future Leaders. The activation, ‘New Recruits’ is Change the Refs latest effort to ignite a movement to ban…
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Dancing Is The New Protest In Iran
Read more: Dancing Is The New Protest In IranThe Islamic Republic has always frowned upon dance but recently even a simple choreographed or ‘synchronized movement’ – as the regime calls it – has become an act of protest. Last week on International Women’s Day, a 40-second video of…
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Protesters with fake blood, baby dolls and shackles picket Supreme Court justice’s home
Read more: Protesters with fake blood, baby dolls and shackles picket Supreme Court justice’s homePro-choice activists protested outside Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home on Saturday ahead of the apex court’s decision on a landmark case constitutionally protecting a woman’s right to safe abortion. The activists, part of a group called Rise…
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1,100 Body Bags Line National Mall For Action to Curb Gun Violence
Read more: 1,100 Body Bags Line National Mall For Action to Curb Gun ViolenceOver 1100 black “body bags” fanned out over a section of grass on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on March 24 in a plea for sanity. Each represented roughly 150 individuals who have died from gun violence since the…
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George Floyd statues unveiled as cities celebrate Juneteenth
Read more: George Floyd statues unveiled as cities celebrate JuneteenthIt was a quick turnaround for federal employers to recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday. But some cities were ready with new statues honoring George Floyd, whose killing by police in Minneapolis last year sparked a nationwide racial justice…