Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Undercover Investigation at Factory Farm
Read more: Undercover Investigation at Factory FarmBy Joanna Zelman Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyoming pig breeding facility. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), an animal…
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ACT UP is at it again
Read more: ACT UP is at it againLong before the red ribbon became an innocuous symbol of AIDS “awareness” and celebrity philanthropy, there was the pink triangle and there was ACT UP and there were thousands of people taking to the streets for their lives. Once a…
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Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Read more: Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a JokeFrom The New York TimeBy BROOK LARMER The cellphone vibrated softly, insistently, echoing off the whitewashed walls of the artist’s studio. It was a Sunday morning in early April, and Wang Bo — an Internet animator better known to his…
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Art Works Projects: Afghanistan Exhibition
Read more: Art Works Projects: Afghanistan ExhibitionArt Works Projects’ mission is to use design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights and environmental issues. AWP provides visual advocacy tools which produce action on human rights crises at the…
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From a Universe of Trash
Read more: From a Universe of TrashFrom a Universe of Trash, Recycling Art and Hope By STEPHEN HOLDEN “We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s…
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Beware the Russian dolls, says Amnesty ad
Read more: Beware the Russian dolls, says Amnesty adFollowing last week’s powerful death-penalty spot with the melting wax figures, Amnesty International in France moves on to Russian dolls to symbolize the hidden political repression and social terror in that country. “We must not let Russia’s charm hide its…
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Fur Free
Read more: Fur FreeAnti-Fur advocates have been protesting through demonstrations for decades, throwing red paint on women wearing fur coats, passing out leaflets and sporting the slogan “Fur Is Dead” on t-shirts and stickers and spray-painting it on buildings in cities throughout the…
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Dramatic Recovery
Read more: Dramatic RecoveryWhat is it like living with AIDS? This heart-wrenching video for South Africa’s Topsy Foundation brings us through 90 hard days in the life of someone living with it. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end.…
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Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG Project
Read more: Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG ProjectIn the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC, sexual violence is a community-wide problem. Rape, in the DRC has been used as a weapon of war and sadly continues to increase even after. According to the peacebuilding NGO Search for…
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Dubai Man Aims to Enable Filmmaking Skills Among West Bank Youngsters
Read more: Dubai Man Aims to Enable Filmmaking Skills Among West Bank YoungstersYoungsters on the West Bank will have the chance to benefit creatively from a new project this summer. From the beginning of July, Handheld Stories plans to teach filmmaking skills to groups between eight and 16 years old from youth…