Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese Textbooks
Read more: Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese TextbooksIn November 2015, Chinese LGBT activist Chen Qiuyan met with government officials in Beijing after months of campaigning to have the Ministry of Education remove textbooks which identify homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry…
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‘Pharma – Greed – Kills’
Read more: ‘Pharma – Greed – Kills’April 2nd, 2016, organized by members of the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power faction in London, five activists stormed London’s Gilead Pharmaceutical offices and frantically disrobed to reveal painted backs spelling out the word ‘Greed.” About 30 other activists rallied…
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MAY DAY MARCH- “TRUMP UNWANTED”
Read more: MAY DAY MARCH- “TRUMP UNWANTED”GAME ON! Its gonna be a good Spring!” Connie Bacon. Activists and the politically aware will march with the message that Donald Trump and his beliefs are “UNWANTED”. External sources: https://www.facebook.com/maydaymarch16/ https://www.facebook.com/connie.bacon/posts/10156668786985048
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Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter Celebrations
Read more: Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter CelebrationsMEXICO-US-HOLY-WEEK-TRUMP Credit: YURI CORTEZ / Stringer Caption:Mexican’s hang an effigy representing US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before being set on fire, March 26, 2016 in Mexico City during Holy Week celebrations. For many years Mexicans have made cardboard figures…
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Project Easy Access Lexington
Read more: Project Easy Access LexingtonSpearheaded by Latitude Artist Community, Project Easy Access Lexington (PEAL) organized team ‘Bricksquad’ to help make the sidewalks and streets of downtown Lexington, KY more wheelchair accessible. Armed with only a canvas bag of few bricks, sand, and some tools…
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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Read more: Protest Posters for Fees Must FallDaniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…
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Ghost Protest in Seoul
Read more: Ghost Protest in SeoulHaeryun Kang reported the following for NPR on February 24, 2016: “On the eve of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s third anniversary in office, protesters gathered in Seoul… to condemn the administration’s increasing crackdown on free speech. These protesters were…
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Read more: Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co. “This ‘street art’ exhibition [featuring 250 works of street art, some of which were removed from their original public…
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Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet Party
Read more: Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet PartyThe following is Alex King’s description of the founding of the Partido de la Red in Buenos Aires, Argentina: … “a giant Trojan horse trundled through the streets of Buenos Aires…this was how the newly formed Partido de la Red,…
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Activist Hangs Herself in Protest
Read more: Activist Hangs Herself in ProtestA topless activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Paris, to protest against the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The protester, from international women’s rights group Femen, hung from the bridge in an execution-style demonstration on 28…