Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Four Dead in Ohio
Read more: Four Dead in Ohio“Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming. We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four Dead in Ohio.” Inspired by the events that unfolded on the campus of Kent State University on May 4, 1970, the folk-rock group…
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Brick X Brick
Read more: Brick X BrickBrick x Brick is a public art performance that builds human “walls” against misogyny. It is organized by the Public Displays of Affection, a collective of artists, designers, educators and organizers that engages in nonviolent direct art action. During the…
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Chinese women protest at gynaecology checks for civil service jobs
Read more: Chinese women protest at gynaecology checks for civil service jobsOn November 26, 2012, about ten college students “flash mobbed” the front of the human resources and social welfare department of Hubei Province in central China. “Refuse to take off pants for inspection,” “Ask about menstrual history, what does it…
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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane
Read more: Bicycle Advocacy Love Your LaneOn April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets. Bicycle advocacy had been building since the 1960s,…
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Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijo
Read more: Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijoThe beginnings of the #YoTambienExijo movement were born on 17 December 2014, when President Obama announcement a landmark warming of the 53-year chill between the United States and Cuba. “When I first heard about the Cuba-US reconciliation it had a…
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Chinese gather and lay flowers despite heavy security as former Premier Li Keqiang is laid to rest
Read more: Chinese gather and lay flowers despite heavy security as former Premier Li Keqiang is laid to restHEFEI, China (AP) — Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people gathered Thursday near a state funeral home in Beijing as China’s former second-ranking leader, Li Keqiang, was put to rest, while a steady stream of mourners showed their respects at the…
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NYU Activist Group on the Streets
Read more: NYU Activist Group on the StreetsOn a sidewalk in the Village in downtown Manhattan, an African-American woman leans on her elbows and knees, wearing only black underpants. Scrawled in black marker all over her body are the words “Ain’t I a Woman?” Across the street,…
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Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)
Read more: Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)The ZAD (zone à défendre, or “zone to defend”) in Western France is 4000 acres of wetland, farmland and forest that was originally intended to be built into an airport in 1965 but is now an autonomous territory occupied by…
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LGBTQ Marriage Matching in China
Read more: LGBTQ Marriage Matching in ChinaSixth Tone – “A group of women trying to raise awareness of LGBT rights by advertising their single, gay sons and daughters at Shanghai’s “marriage market” were forced to disperse after a heated confrontation with other parents and security personnel.The…
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‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
Read more: ‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quiltA two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts Benjamin Sutton 25 March 2024 Hundreds of artists, cultural workers and activists gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum…