Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Read more: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower SeedsAi Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually…
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Manual de micromilitancia
Read more: Manual de micromilitanciaLess than a month after Mauricio Macri’s inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri’s election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in…
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Horas por la educación, Hours for education
Read more: Horas por la educación, Hours for educationChilean students ran for 1,800 consecutive hours around Chile’s presidential palace, La Moneda, from June 13 to August 27, 2011 to protest the cost of education. The 1,800 hours stand for the 1,800,000,000 Chilean pesos, or approximately US$4 million which…
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Thriller Protest
Read more: Thriller ProtestThe following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: “Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher…
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Recycle Flash Mob
Read more: Recycle Flash MobA group of unidentified guerrilla activists staged a unique pro recycling flashmob in a Quebec mall in July 2015. An actor ‘forgot’ an empty water bottle on the ground in a food court a couple of feet from a recycling…
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Read more: A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In BangladeshA group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most…
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Good Chance Theatre
Read more: Good Chance TheatreSurrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants…
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Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
Read more: Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6…
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The “marriage effect”
Read more: The “marriage effect”Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The “marriage effect” clause sees convicted rapists given…
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and ResistanceThis year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing…