Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters
Read more: ‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protestersMelissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…
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Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, Brazil
Read more: Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, BrazilIn the 1970s, Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, transformed six blocks of the main downtown shopping street into a pedestrian zone in 1972, despite fierce objections from the merchants. He quickly accomplished this change in just three…
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Trans Murder Monitoring
Read more: Trans Murder MonitoringAs part of an international workshop (10-11 October 2015) with the Center for Artistic Activism, 17 trans activists and artists from 13 European countries developed a creative campaign to mark some of the spaces in Berlin which have symbolic significance…
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Protests continue against Netanyahu’s government legal reform plans in Israel
Read more: Protests continue against Netanyahu’s government legal reform plans in IsraelTEL AVIV Thousands of people took to the streets in Israeli cities Saturday for a fifth straight week to protest the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning proposed judicial reforms. Demonstrators from non-governmental organizations, lawyers, and technology sectors staged…
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How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More Digestible
Read more: How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More DigestibleKeith Haring is known to be one of the biggest artists raising awareness for HIV and AIDS, considering he had also passed away from HIV. Starting his career covering ads with spray paint and chalk in subway stations in New…
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Climate Activists Throw Soup on Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ to Protest Fossil Fuels
Read more: Climate Activists Throw Soup on Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ to Protest Fossil FuelsOn Friday, in room 43 of London’s National Gallery, two young women opened cans of tomato soup and threw their contents onto Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting Sunflowers. The soup-throwers donned shirts displaying the logo of Just Stop Oil, an…
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Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion week
Read more: Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion weekIf fashion is a reflection of the times it is little wonder that the current round of shows have often felt discombobulating. Gucci’s show on Sunday night was particularly surreal, opening with a series of models being propelled along a…
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In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaning
Read more: In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaningI was just shy of 18 when I bought the hooded sweatshirt — a metallic silver thing that cost about $10 on the Aeropostale clearance rack — to take with me to Northwestern University in the Chicago suburbs, knowing my…
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Hundreds Gather at Utah Capitol in Protest of New Transgender Rights Related Bills
Read more: Hundreds Gather at Utah Capitol in Protest of New Transgender Rights Related BillsLawmakers in a Utah House committee soundly rejected a bill that would have penalized doctors for giving gender-affirming health care to minors, then moments later approved legislation that included similar restrictions on transgender health care — minus the punishment —…
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1.5 °C is Dead! Climate Revolution Now!
Read more: 1.5 °C is Dead! Climate Revolution Now!A NASA scientist and three others were arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday after chaining themselves to the doors of a Chase Bank office building. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has invested more money in fossil fuels than any other bank,…