Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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“Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisis
Read more: “Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisisIn 2008, Iceland was in turmoil. There was a systematic failure of its three main commercial banks. The Economist called the collapse the largest suffered by any country in history, relative to Iceland’s population size. In response to what was…
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Chick-fil-A anti-gay “eat-in” movement: new tactics
Read more: Chick-fil-A anti-gay “eat-in” movement: new tacticsIn the 20th century India’s Mahatma Gandhi famously used the hunger strike as political protest. In America today we demonstrate by eating fast food. Call it an “eat-in,” call it a “buycott”: By whatever name, it’s a tactic that’s growing…
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A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin
Read more: A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon MartinA march took place Wednesday evening in Manhattan calling for justice in the case of Trayvon Martin. He was an unarmed black teenager who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month. In New York,…
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Angel Action
Read more: Angel ActionMatthew Shepard was attacked by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on October 7, 1998, the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. He was pronounced dead on October 12th. Shepard’s funeral was protested by Fred Phelps, notorious leader of the Westboro…
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White supremacist rally “clowned” by counter protest
Read more: White supremacist rally “clowned” by counter protestCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say no one was arrested during a loud – and very colorful – KKK rally and counter-protest in uptown Charlotte Saturday afternoon. Members of the National Socialist Movement joined the Ku Klux Klan for an…
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Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
Read more: Compton’s Cafeteria RiotCompton’s Cafeteria, 24 hour diner in S.F.’s Tenderloin was a hang out spot for trans women, drag queens, and sex workers. It was a place for the community to meet up for an expensive meal, a place to chit chat,…
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Antigone
Read more: AntigoneAntigone, written by Sophocles approximately 441 BC, is the third of the three Thebans plays. Antigone is the daughter of the infamous Oedipus and Jocasta. Thebes has suffered from a plague, scandal, and civil war. Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices…
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Self-barricading for Free Education
Read more: Self-barricading for Free EducationEleven students have locked themselves in the Peter Cooper Suite of the eighth floor of the Cooper Union building to protest the institution’s decision to charge graduate students tuition. “We’re hoping this will show the administration that they aren’t able…
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Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro Valle
Read more: Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro ValleIn 2009, conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demoted the publicly-funded Italian Theatre Insitute (or ETI) to “disposable” status, hacking funding for the arts considerably. ETI promoted Italian companies abroad, managed the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Duse theatre in…
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Run #4AllCauses
Read more: Run #4AllCauses“Lincoln Square — The runners tossed blankets, gloves, jackets and other gear onto the pile, each leaving a piece of where they came from. A French man donated his running shirt and pants, and noted that they were designer wear.…