Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Italian climate change protesters turn Venice’s Grand Canal green
Read more: Italian climate change protesters turn Venice’s Grand Canal greenItalian environmentalists used a dye to turn Venice’s Grand Canal green on Saturday in protest at what they said was a lack of progress at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The protesters from the Extinction Rebellion group, dangling from…
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“Stop the plutonium shipment!”
Read more: “Stop the plutonium shipment!”While meditating in front of a Nepalese Sarasvati statue on New Year’s Day in 1991 at her California home, Mayumi received a calling that brought a sudden halt to painting. Having witnessed the horrors of atomic bombings as a child…
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Voguing As Resistance
Read more: Voguing As ResistanceThere were still bloodstains outside the Midwood Mobil gas station on Friday night; a fresh sign taped to a lamppost read “A Hate Crime Happened Here.” This is the place where, less than a week prior, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a…
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Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
Read more: Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn MuseumAs the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests. Images and videos posted on Instagram show several banners unfurled inside MoMA’s…
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Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the Amazon
Read more: Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the AmazonThousands of Indigenous activists and environmentalists have converged in one of the Amazon’s biggest cities to voice their hopes and fears about the future of the world’s biggest rainforest. The Brazilian city of Belém will this week host a two-day…
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Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of Living
Read more: Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of LivingActivists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup onto a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland. The group, called This Is Rigged,…
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Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong Kong
Read more: Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong KongLuke Ching Chin Wai is a conceptual artist and labour-artivist in Hong Kong. Since 2013, he has worked undercover in different low-paid jobs in the city, including as a security guard, supermarket cashier worker, and metro cleaner to learn about…
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‘My Life Is Not Your Porn’: Women Lead Historic Spy Cams Protest in South Korea
Read more: ‘My Life Is Not Your Porn’: Women Lead Historic Spy Cams Protest in South Korean Saturday, thousands of women in red, black, and white gathered together in Seoul for what many consider the largest women-led protest ever in South Korean history. Shielding their faces with masks to protect themselves from harassment or online trolling,…
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For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera
Read more: For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance CameraSeveral nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy. Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid…
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‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in China
Read more: ‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in ChinaHONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai.…