Projects tagged
Organization
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Undocubus
Read more: Undocubus“The No Papers, No Fear ride for justice. Riders are undocumented people from all over the country, including students, mothers and fathers, children, people in deportation proceedings, day laborers, and others who continue to face deportation, harassment, and death while…
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Naked Barcelona Animal Rights Activists Covered in Blood to be “Human Meat” Protesting
Read more: Naked Barcelona Animal Rights Activists Covered in Blood to be “Human Meat” ProtestingNaked animal rights activists have covered themselves in blood and wrapped themselves in giant meat packaging in the middle of Barcelona. The Spanish branch of animal rights organisation AnimaNaturalis staged the protest on Sunday, on Barcelona’s Sant Jaume plaza.Activists protested…
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The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine Ridge
Read more: The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine RidgePine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Lakota, designated as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This land and its people have endured many tragedies at the hands of the United States government. Over 500 treaties negotiated in…
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A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art
Read more: A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest ArtHarvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Read more: Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTIONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…
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Polycom Development Project
Read more: Polycom Development ProjectIn a lively room in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, a group of women have gathered to discuss how to keep the upcoming Kenyan election free from violence. The women are not politicians, election officials or campaigners – they are grassroots…
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organization
Read more: Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organizationThe Haitian Creole word “konbit” denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years…
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Read more: The Protest Banner Lending LibraryThe Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners…
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Beauty In Transition
Read more: Beauty In TransitionBeauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By…
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Glam Up the Midterms
Read more: Glam Up the MidtermsYou think midterm elections are boring? Not this year. Funny Or Die and Billy Eichner are going to Glam Up The Midterms! Only 12% of young people voted during the last midterm election. From the same team that brought you…