Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Fed-Up Chef Breaks Down Deer Leg in Front of Vegan Protesters
Read more: Fed-Up Chef Breaks Down Deer Leg in Front of Vegan ProtestersAfter weeks of vegan activists protesting in front of his nose-to-tail bistro, chef Michael Hunter decided to make a statement by butchering a freshly-killed deer’s leg in the window of his Toronto restaurant, Antler Kitchen & Bar, right in front…
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ASCO Collective
Read more: ASCO CollectiveBeginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Read more: Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTIONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…
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Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violence
Read more: Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violenceWASHINGTON — Thousands of shoes were laid outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to represent children who have been killed by gun violence. Avaaz, an international advocacy group, planned the demonstration to honor victims killed since the massacre…
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Read more: NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower OthersYou’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not…
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LEGOVC
Read more: LEGOVCLEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, ‘pantomime villain’ Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is…
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Capitol Lawn Covered in 7,000 Pairs of Shoes
Read more: Capitol Lawn Covered in 7,000 Pairs of ShoesProtesters left 7,000 pairs of shoes in front of the Capitol building Tuesday to symbolize the number of children killed by gun violence in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December 2012. From 8:30 am…
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Oxycontin Protest at the Met
Read more: Oxycontin Protest at the MetThe US artist Nan Goldin has staged her first public protest since she launched her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), shaming members of the Sackler family who have profited from the sale of Oxycontin and institutions that have…
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P.A.I.N.
Read more: P.A.I.N.Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was…
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“Jesus Was The First To Decriminalize Sex Work”
Read more: “Jesus Was The First To Decriminalize Sex Work”A big yellow banner hangs off the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town, South Africa proclaiming that *”Jesus was the first to decriminalise sex work – John 8:7″* “Reverend Alan Storey of the Central Methodist Mission, together with members of…