Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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The Coultergeist
Read more: The CoultergeistIn 2010, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Ann Coulter to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In order to attend, students had to e-mail the College Republicans (allowing them to deny…
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Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotent
Read more: Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotentOn November 7, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI visited our city. He would have been better off staying at home. Even before he touched land we had rendered him impotent for life. Yes: im-po-tent. A group of infidels who had met…
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Discongreso
Read more: Discongreso“Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work. The first thing…
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The Grim Reapers
Read more: The Grim ReapersThe Grim Reapers stood outside the capital building of the State of Washington as the new Governor Jay Inslee was being inaugurated. We were part of a climate change rally that lasted several hours and included many other groups protesting…
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Occupy the Theatre
Read more: Occupy the TheatreA changing cast of theater workers — actors, seamstresses, lighting technicians and prop masters — are protesting the privatization of a stage once graced by some of Europe’s greatest thespians, from Sarah Bernhardt to Vittorio Gassman. he front foyer has…
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Slashing the Rokeby Venus
Read more: Slashing the Rokeby VenusOn March 10, 1914, Mary Richardson slashed Velasquez’s “Rokeby Venus” with a small axe during public hours at the National Gallery in London. A militant suffragette protesting the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in prison (and the Cat and Mouse Act…
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Occupy Small Street
Read more: Occupy Small StreetFirst Inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, #occupysmallstreet staged its first little protest in Melbourne’s City Square, as part of #F12, International Art + Occupy Day. Signs are made collectively, by regular Arts x Activism and members of the…
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Pray The Devil Back to Hell
Read more: Pray The Devil Back to HellPray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won…
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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Read more: Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling ProtestersDAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe…
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Book Bloc
Read more: Book BlocThe book bloc constitutes a line of demonstrators holding cardboard-polyurethane-and-foam shields that are made to resemble giant book covers. This tactic tends to be used in actions that oppose neoliberal reform of education and libraries, especially in the form of…