Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Suffrage
Read more: SuffrageAlice Paul, along with Lucy Burns, joined the National American Woman suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1912. They were allowed to take over the NAWSA Congressional Committee in DC but were given no office or funds. For months Paul and Burns…
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SlutWalk
Read more: SlutWalkThe SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman’s appearance. The rallies…
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Ukraine’s Femen: Topless protests ‘help feminist cause’
Read more: Ukraine’s Femen: Topless protests ‘help feminist cause’FEMEN is a feminist Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, religious institutions, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international topics.Some of the…
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Disarm the Gallery: Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade links
Read more: Disarm the Gallery: Protests end National Gallery’s arms trade linksThe National Gallery’s long-standing sponsorship arrangement with weapons manufacturer Finmeccanica has ended, following a campaign by Campaign Against Arms Trade to ‘Disarm the Gallery.’ The arrangement has been terminated one year early and just weeks before the next protest event…
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Necessity of “Moral and National Education” as curriculum
Read more: Necessity of “Moral and National Education” as curriculumMoral and national education (MNE) s a school curriculum proposed by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong, transformed from the current moral and civic education (MCE). This curriculum evoked huge controversy in Hong Kong society for its “biased content” about…
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Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection Law
Read more: Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection LawThousands of animal rights activists marched against a draft law on Sunday that would make changes to Turkey’s Animal Protection Law No. 5199, seeking to introduce practices currently used in other countries such as collecting stray animals from the streets…
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Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest
Read more: Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for ProtestDEPENDING on your taste, punk died in 1979, or maybe 1994, or whenever studded leather cuffs became a must-have mall-girl accessory. Now, suddenly, punk has been resurrected, stitched together anew in the form of the well-accessorized Russian women who call…
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March to Close Slaughterhouses in France
Read more: March to Close Slaughterhouses in FranceBy Judy Molland If you thought that France was a nation of meat-eaters, think again. Saturday, June 2, saw a big march in Paris, as several animal rights groups came together to demand the closure of all slaughterhouses in France.…
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40 Days for Life
Read more: 40 Days for LifeThere have now been ten coordinated 40 Days for Life campaigns since 2007, mobilizing people of faith and conscience in 440 cities across the United States and Canada, plus cities in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belize, Denmark, England, Georgia, Germany, Ireland,…
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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education
Read more: UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public educationOn Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female first-year students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public…