Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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The Pigeon Palace
Read more: The Pigeon PalaceReal estate agents and investors with plans to visit an open house in San Francisco Tuesday were greeted with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy…
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Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch day
Read more: Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch dayApple implemented improved reservation procedures and policies for employees dealing with the iPhone 6 launch at retail stores on September 19th, 2014, but the launch at the company’s Hong Kong store hadn’t gone quite as smooth as elsewhere. The store…
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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim
Read more: May Day Occupation at GuggenheimAt noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s…
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‘Casseroles’
Read more: ‘Casseroles’‘Casseroles’protests, based on the tradition of ‘cazerolazo,’ consists of protesting by banging on pots and pans in the street. This took place in May of 2012 in Montreal and across Quebec, in response to the government’s proposed tuition increases and…
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Multiple perspectives of protest turning violent, into riots
Read more: Multiple perspectives of protest turning violent, into riotsThe two sources linked in this post are separate reviews of the incident currently occurring in Baltimore. It illustrates the factor of hindsight…. what supposedly began as a peaceful protest, in one article, is portrayed as clearly intended to fight…
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The Teddy Bear Catapult
Read more: The Teddy Bear CatapultIt was a classic summit protest at the height of the anti-globalization movement. Thirty-four heads of state from across the Americas were gathering in Québec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a sweeping trade deal…
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Free the Beijing Five
Read more: Free the Beijing FiveNancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: Five Chinese feminists have been arrested for planning to protest against sexual harassment. They face five to ten years in jail. This post explains the background to the case, and suggests ways that other…
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The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the police
Read more: The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the policeDuring 2011, students around Colombia decided to create a National Student organization that would organize thousands of them to reject a harmful educational reform (Reforma a la ley 30). Before this year, student organizations were characterized by their segmentarity and…
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Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rights
Read more: Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rightsHow did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media? Turkish men aren’t known for wearing skirts. But hundreds turned out in large numbers in Istanbul to protest about violence against women in Turkey on 21 February. They…
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#NOSFALTAN43
Read more: #NOSFALTAN43On December 2014 I’ve been artist in residence at MANY MINI RESIDENCY a short-term residency program organized by Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer and hosted by GYB BYG in Mexico City. During my 12 hour residency I’ve worked on the…