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The Peace Piece

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The Peace Piece was conceived by artist Adelle Lutz as a reaction to the declaration of the American war with Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Lutz combined her talents as a costume designer and artist to create a project…

Avatar in Bil’in

Practitioner:
Palestinian and Israeli activists

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Bil’in is a Palestinian village located 12 kilometres west of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. In 2005, the Israeli government began constructing the security barrier in the Bil’in area, and since then approximately 55 percent of…

Standing Man at Gezi Park

Practitioner:
Erdem Gunduz

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The 2013 protests in Turkey started on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park protesting the…

Illuminating Rana Plaza: NYFW Protest and Projection

Practitioner:
99 Pickets, Ismail Ferdous, The Illuminator art collective

Date:
Apr 1 2003

To protest unethical labor practices in Bangladesh, specifically unsafe working conditions, 99 Pickets, The Illuminator, and Ismail Ferdous took action during New York Fashion Week. 99 Pickets members protested, drawing attention to the question, “How are my clothes really made?”…

One People Flash Mob

Practitioner:
Occupy

Date:
Apr 1 2003

On 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at Occupy SF & Oakland to dance the world awake. Flashmob Produced & Directed by Magalie Bonneau-Marcil of DancingwithoutBorders.org, Video Directed & Edited by Ben Flanigan (BenFlanigan.com), Thanks to our team of…

Walmart Worker Flash Mob

Practitioner:
Walmart Employees

Date:
Apr 1 2003

September 5th, 2013, Raleigh, NC – As Walmart workers petition managers to reinstate employees who have been unfairly treated, a flash mob breaks out. SEE VIDEO. External sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuCNH7dqZxg&feature=youtu.be

Occupy Ikea: A great tactic behind a questionable cause.

Practitioner:
Unnamed

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Woman Spent 15 Days And Nights Occupying IKEA A woman, with the help of Portuguese creative agency TBWA Lisboa, went on ‘protest’ at an IKEA store in Portugal. Called ‘Occupy IKEA’, the movement was to urge IKEA to set up…

Rally of White Power Clowns Drowned Out By Bunch of Awesome Actual Clowns

Practitioner:
Protesters

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Apparently the human colostomy bags known as the neo-Nazis and the KKK held an anti-immigration rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday, but their demonstration was totally taken over by hordes of super-happy clowns. Instead of shouting, the clown protesters…

A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March

Practitioner:
The people of Moscow

Date:
Apr 1 2003

There were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on Sunday. There was, instead, a corpulent poet, whose admirers thrust lilac boughs at him. A bespectacled detective…

Inflatable Cobblestones

Practitioner:
toolsforaction.net

Date:
Apr 1 2003

First: inflatables uplift a grim protest situation into a playful event. There is something magic about what inflatables induce in people. Their enormous size combined with the weightlessness and softness makes them irresistibly attractive and dreamlike. People have a natural…