Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Nats Never Die/The Zombies are Coming!
Read more: Nats Never Die/The Zombies are Coming!The Yes Men join Reclaim the City in their fight against unjust housing policy. On September 30, 2019, a horde of zombies attended a “#natsneverdie rally” at the Cape Town Civic Centre in order to celebrate Mayor Dan Plato and…
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Amazon May Day Strike
Read more: Amazon May Day StrikeEssential workers at major companies like Amazon, Instacart, and Target across the United States on Friday protested for better safety protections, working conditions, and pay during the coronavirus pandemic. The event attracted considerable media attention and political support, pushing companies…
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Protect Nurses
Read more: Protect NursesRegistered Nurses will be holding a protest in front of the White House on Tuesday, April 21 to call attention to the tens of thousands of health care workers nationwide who have become infected with COVID-19 due to lack of…
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Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms
Read more: Blanke Bedenken, or Naked QualmsA group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt at risk from coronavirus…
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How This Indigenous Model Is Using His Platform for Climate Activism
Read more: How This Indigenous Model Is Using His Platform for Climate ActivismIndigenous designers often use fashion to celebrate their culture and raise awareness around key issues affecting their community. Now, the spirit has come to the modeling world. Haatepah Clearbear is a full-time model, based in Los Angeles, who is using…
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Against Excessive Quarantine
Read more: Against Excessive QuarantineProtests against state stay-at-home orders have attracted a wide range of fringe activists and ardent Trump supporters. They have also attracted a family of political activists whom some Republican lawmakers have called “scam artists.” A family-run network of pro-gun groups…
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Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests
Read more: Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protestsA trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists. The…
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Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)
Read more: Literatura Exposta (Literature Exposed)Artists in Rio de Janeiro have staged a pop-up street show to protest against the closure by the new far-right state government of an exhibition because of a performance attacking dictatorship-era torture. Álvaro Figueiredo, the curator of Literatura Exposta (Literature…
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JEWISH-LED CAR PROTEST SURROUNDS HUTTO DETENTION CENTER
Read more: JEWISH-LED CAR PROTEST SURROUNDS HUTTO DETENTION CENTERApril 19th, 2020 Taylor, TX – On April 19th at 4 pm, around 70 human rights defenders in cars circled the T. Don Hutto Residential Center operated by CoreCivic in Taylor, honking and displaying signs urging ICE and local officials…
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Mass Protests to Online Activism: How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways Activists Fight
Read more: Mass Protests to Online Activism: How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways Activists FightFridays for Future strikers around the world shared their demands for bold climate action online Friday as many youth activists heeded public health experts’ recommendations in the face of the coronavirus pandemic by eschewing public protests in favor of digital…