Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Bulgarian students protest for ‘change’
Read more: Bulgarian students protest for ‘change’“Wake up!” chanted some 2,000 protesters rallying in front of Sofia University after students, who have been occupying part of the university since October 25, called for faculty and anti-government protesters to join their demonstration. Protesters marched in the streets…
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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America
Read more: Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America(Taken from Group’s Event Statement): “The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let’s return the favor…” “While drawing…
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Money Shouldn’t Talk Silent Vigils & Marches
Read more: Money Shouldn’t Talk Silent Vigils & MarchesBeginning in January 2012, MicCheckWallSt, a subsidiary of Seattle’s Occupy Wall Street group, began performing a series of silent vigils and marches throughout shopping areas and in front of banks in various Seattle neighborhoods. Images are from the first silent…
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Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling
Read more: Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling“By yesterday afternoon, news of Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime NBA ban had already settled in. But there was still plenty of anger among the protesters who gathered outside the Staples Center Tuesday. With game 5 of the Warriors and…
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Matador almost gets the Wall Street Bull
Read more: Matador almost gets the Wall Street BullThe incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast, traditional ways of coaxing a bull into anger in preparation for a Castilian corrida,…
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Billionaires for Bush
Read more: Billionaires for Bush“Some people call you the elite,” George W. Bush joked to his wealthy funders, “I call you my base.” Whether candidate Bush meant it as a joke or not, the Billionaires for Bush (B4B) campaign used humor, street theater and…
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Day Care Center Sit-In
Read more: Day Care Center Sit-InLow-income tenants at a public housing project in Rhode Island — many of them working mothers with young children — wanted an affordable day care center in their building. With petitions, pickets, and letters to the city council, they built…
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Florida Modern Slavery Museum
Read more: Florida Modern Slavery MuseumIn December 2008, farm labor contractors Cesar and Geovanni Navarrete were each sentenced to twelve years in prison for their part in what U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy called “slavery, plain and simple.” According to the Justice Department, the employers “pleaded…
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Taco Bell Boycott
Read more: Taco Bell BoycottFor years, workers in Florida’s tomato fields have endured poverty wages and terrible working conditions. In 1993, a small, community-based organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) formed to demand an end to these unfair labor practices. By 2005,…
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The Mischief Makers
Read more: The Mischief MakersThe Mischief Makers built a giant bird as a symbolic way of opening up Serb borders and made an impressive mosaic on the same theme, possibly to be used in a new youth centre. Clowns trained and joked about at…