Projects tagged
Digital & Technology
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Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan
Read more: Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a PlanThe coronavirus outbreak has prompted climate activists to abandon public demonstrations, one of their most powerful tools for raising public awareness, and shift to online protests. This week, for example, organizers of the Fridays for Future protests are advising people…
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Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on Iran
Read more: Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on IranActivists have started an online campaign to pressure US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to lift sanctions on Iran to help it contain the spread of coronavirus. Coronavirus: Are US sanctions hurting Iran’s response to the pandemic? The hashtag #EndCOVIDSanctions was…
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#NoFutureNoChildren
Read more: #NoFutureNoChildrenAs leaders across the world are getting ready to gather together to discuss climate change—and what to do about it—at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York next week, hundreds of young people across the world are going on…
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NYU Students’ Response to COVID-19 Housing Closure
Read more: NYU Students’ Response to COVID-19 Housing ClosureThis was a protest posted on Change.org in response to NYU’s forced eviction deadline on students living in on-campus housing. The following was the information posted on the site: We, the undergraduate student body of New York University, strongly urge…
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FloodNet
Read more: FloodNetFloodNet was a conceptual artwork and a tool for online collective action. Developed by the collective Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), it took the form of a Java applet that allowed users to send useless requests or personalized messages to a…
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Blued
Read more: BluedHow a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China — bringing together…
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Under the same sky
Read more: Under the same sky“Under the Same Sky” bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles…
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Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test
Read more: Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA TestWASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is…
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Perigives
Read more: PerigivesThe public bathrooms at Penn Station in New York City are a dirty, depressing place. But now, there’s a bright spot: a poster that encourages women to donate menstrual products, like pads or tampon, to help the many homeless women…
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Activist Artists Hack the New Museum’s Hans Haacke Survey in an Effort to Expose the Museum’s Hidden Capitalist Agenda
Read more: Activist Artists Hack the New Museum’s Hans Haacke Survey in an Effort to Expose the Museum’s Hidden Capitalist AgendaThe long-awaited New Museum retrospective of conceptual art pioneer Hans Haacke fell victim to internet hackers over the weekend trying to make a political point. The intervention drastically skewed the results of an iPad-based artwork that was meant to record…