Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Occupy the Pipeline Shuts Down Spectra Construction in NYC
Read more: Occupy the Pipeline Shuts Down Spectra Construction in NYCAs part of a nationwide day of action against fossil fuel pipelines from Pennsylvania to Texas, several hundred New Yorkers succeeded Monday in halting construction of a radioactive pipeline threatening the West Village–after unrelenting daily vigils at the Spectra pipeline…
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Missile Dick Chicks Take America
Read more: Missile Dick Chicks Take AmericaShortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration’s use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond…
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No Shopping, Just Stop It!
Read more: No Shopping, Just Stop It!Internet spreads word as networks shun adverts for Buy Nothing Day Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles The Guardian, Friday 24 November 2000 Today is America’s Buy Nothing Day. An event that was started to poke pointed fun at consumerism is…
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Flip the Debt Clock
Read more: Flip the Debt ClockOn Monday, a grassroots, anti–corporate tax-dodging coalition called Flip the Debt crashed a “Fix the Debt” party at St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire hosted by Honeywell CEO David Cote to tell the gathered deficit hawk disciples that paying their…
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Suffrage Parade
Read more: Suffrage ParadeOn March 3, 1913, President-elect Woodrow Wilson arrived at Union Station in Washington, DC. It was the day before his inauguration, but the teeming mobs that typically appeared to greet a new president were nowhere to be found. Instead, the…
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No nos vamos, nos echan
Read more: No nos vamos, nos echanThe “no nos vamos, nos echan” campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced…
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Sing for the Climate
Read more: Sing for the ClimateSing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium. More than 80.000 people in more than 180 Belgian cities and communities sang the song “Do it Now”, urging…
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Russia: Greenpeace Polar Bear Protesters Arrested Outside Gazprom Office In Moscow
Read more: Russia: Greenpeace Polar Bear Protesters Arrested Outside Gazprom Office In MoscowMOSCOW (AP) — Put your paws in the air. Moscow police have arrested 10 environmental activists, including four dressed in polar bear costumes, who were protesting outside the main office of Gazprom, the Russian oil and natural gas giant. The…
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Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’
Read more: Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’By WILLIAM J. BROAD With flashlights and bolt cutters, the three pacifists defied barbed wire as well as armed guards, video cameras and motion sensors at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee early on July 28, a Saturday. The…
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Ridiculously Rich for Rove
Read more: Ridiculously Rich for RoveIn 2009, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Karl Rove to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many groups of activists responded. Students for a Democratic Society organized a loud demonstration in…