Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Pedestrian Critical Mass
Read more: Pedestrian Critical MassINVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela We invite you to walk for a human Caracas where car driver and motorized respect pedestrian. Enough of…
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Standing Man – Duran Adam
Read more: Standing Man – Duran AdamOn June the 18th 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey suddenly a man appeared on Taksim Square, just standing there. After more than 2 weeks of peaceful protest against the ruling Prime Minister and his party AKP Taksim Square is still the…
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Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social change
Read more: Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social changeBy Dr. S. O’Sullivan and C. McCausland On an otherwise unremarkable day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat on a public bus. Parks purposely broke the law. As a black woman living in Alabama, she was required…
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Basta Dobbs
Read more: Basta DobbsCNN calls itself “The Most Trusted Name in News,” but for years they provided a platform for Lou Dobbs to spread dangerous myths about immigrants and use dehumanizing and disrespectful language towards the Latino community. In 2009 Presente.org fought back,…
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Students Protest John Galliano
Read more: Students Protest John GallianoIn 2011, a video displaying fashion designer and former lead designer at Dior, John Galliano, shouting anti-Semitic remarks, went viral on the internet, leading to his subsequent dismissal from Dior and the subsequent defamation of his career. Nonetheless, Parsons at…
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Streets into Gardens
Read more: Streets into GardensDuring this time rent prices in the Lower East Side/ East Village were rising due to the presence of many community gardens. In response to this, then Mayor Giuliani decided to sell the 198 gardens in question. Streets into Gardens…
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Camp Frack
Read more: Camp FrackCamp Frack was a protest festival in Lancashire, UK, an area near industrial energy plants that produce shale gas. Around 150 activists from both Frack Off and Campaign against Climate Control (CCC) set up the festival, featuring food, music and…
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Fashion In Action!
Read more: Fashion In Action!On the opening day of the Spring/Summer 2011’s season of Mercedes Benz’s New York Fashion Week, former fashion editor, speaker, and fashion activist Michaela Angela Davis led a protest of approximately 20 black women, dressed in black suits, carrying signs…
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North Carolina “Pray In”
Read more: North Carolina “Pray In”By Adam Owens Seventeen people were arrested Monday evening during what the state chapter of the NAACP called a nonviolent “pray in” protest at the General Assembly. The protest was directed at Republican action on health care, unemployment benefits, education…
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Greenpeace Zombie Protest
Read more: Greenpeace Zombie ProtestMembers of Greenpeace together with environmental advocates dressed as zombies attend a creative protest against water pollution in Manila on September 27, 2012. The protesters delivered a petition urging the establishment of a “Right-To-Know” system for chemicals and the adoption…