Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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FreeAJStaff
Read more: FreeAJStaffAll over the world, journalists and rights groups are protesting the detainment and muzzling of four Al Jazeera staff members in Egypt. Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and correspondent Peter Greste, were detained December 29. The trio, who are accused of…
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GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Read more: GULF Protest at the GuggenheimLast night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours. Unfurling mylar banners, dropping leaflets, chanting words, handing out information to museum visitors, and drawing attention with the use of…
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Pork Bun Restaurant Turned Protest Site
Read more: Pork Bun Restaurant Turned Protest SiteChinese leader Xi Jinping’s latest attempt to cultivate his image as a man of the people is creating some unintended consequences. Qingfeng Restaurant, an unassuming local eatery where Xi ate a meal of pork buns, fried pig liver and vegetables…
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Call for Local Artwork Exhibition
Read more: Call for Local Artwork ExhibitionMIAMI — Officials at the recently inaugurated Pérez Art Museum Miami confirmed on Monday that a valuable vase by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei had been deliberately destroyed by a visitor in what appeared to be an act of…
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Wall Of Love
Read more: Wall Of Love“Divided we are weak. Together we are strong.” Those were the words tweeted by openly gay football star Michael Sam, thanking his University of Missouri family for their support. He posted the message after arriving at the school and seeing…
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Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act
Read more: Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM ActThe federal DREAM Act is back. This week Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the longtime champion of the bill, chaired the first ever Senate hearing on the narrow legalization effort that would allow a select population of undocumented youth a pathway…
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Staten Island Saves Pouch Camp for Preservation
Read more: Staten Island Saves Pouch Camp for PreservationAfter decades of fighting to preserve many of the old woods of Staten Island and years of fighting for the preservation of Pouch Camp, the Boy Scout camp and 100 wooded acres in the middle of the Greenbelt is officially…
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A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot Police
Read more: A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot PoliceBy: Patrick Randall KIEV — Several thousand pro-European Ukrainians demonstrated in the capital for President Viktor Yanukovych’s resignation over the weekend. One man even played the piano in front of Ukranian riot police on Kiev’s Independence Square. The movement, known…
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Freedom of speech Lecture to a university occupation
Read more: Freedom of speech Lecture to a university occupationOn November 29th 2011 Proffessor of Philosophy Raymond Geuss relocated a lecture he was scheduled to give to an occupied lecture hall on the campus of cambridge university. The occupation was in protest agains cuts in the education budget and…
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Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.
Read more: Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A. By Kelly Goff Ann Bradley is a passionate vegan. The 60-year-old Silver Lake resident said she wasn’t always, though. “I ate it, I wore it, I sat on it, I went to circuses,…