Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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#FUEELESTADO
Read more: #FUEELESTADO“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi #FUEELESTADO is a project about the lack of social justice and the gross human rights violations in Mexico. It examines the conflict between state power…
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La Bolsa o La Vida
Read more: La Bolsa o La VidaOn Thursday 18th December 2014, dozens of leading international health activists staged a colorful protest in front of Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain – highlighting the high prices of Gilead’s new hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi. The medicine costs approximately…
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Blind Ones
Read more: Blind OnesStudents from the School of Communication and Art of the University of Sao Paulo perform a skit titled ‘Blind Ones’ as a protest against consumerism inside a shopping mall of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, December 9,…
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Erasing the Police
Read more: Erasing the PoliceThousands of students have protested in the Colombian capital, Bogota, and other cities against government plans to reform higher education. The demonstrations were mainly peaceful but Bogota police fired tear gas and used water cannon after some people threw stones,…
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German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves
Read more: German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against ThemselvesThe tiny German town of Wunsiedel has for decades seen crowds of neo-Nazis pass through its streets in annual demonstrations, but this year something was different. While the extremists received a frigid welcome in past years, they were met with…
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Napalming a Dog!?
Read more: Napalming a Dog!?In 1968, with the US war against Vietnam raging, anti-war veterans and the anti-war movement as a whole in the US increasingly put the spotlight on the US use of napalm. Napalm is burning jellied gasoline dropped on humans engineered…
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$100 bills try to rush the White House
Read more: $100 bills try to rush the White Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wlSzkOlFE Anti-corruption activists unite: The Tea Party and Bold Progressives fighting side-by-side On Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 2 p.m., hundreds of activists marched K Street in Washington D.C. (aka “Influence Alley”) dressed as giant $100 bills. When the activists…
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Inflatable Cobblestones
Read more: Inflatable CobblestonesOn the 25th revolutionary 1st of May demonstration in Berlin-Kreuzberg, protesters were throwing huge inflatable cobblestones, made of silver-reflective foil and tape. The creative intervention was initiated by the former art-activist collective “eclectic electric collective” (e.e.c.) and was meant as…
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Building an Ark for the big climate rally
Read more: Building an Ark for the big climate rallyFour months ago, I was in a multifaith brainstorm for the People’s Climate March when someone said, “What if we had a giant ark?” I think we all had the same reaction: Great … but how do you build an…
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Poop Protest
Read more: Poop ProtestA mainland couple allowed their 2-year-old son to relieve himself by the road at Mangkok, Hong Kong and conflicted with local pedestrians who took photos of the child caused quite a stir among Chinese netizens. While the majority of mainland…