Projects tagged
Organization
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Complementary Currency Project
Read more: Complementary Currency ProjectInitially organized to respond to holes in service provision following Hurricane Katrina, Burners Without Borders has since 2005 “emerged as a community led, grassroots group that encourages innovative, civic participation that creates positive change locally.” One ongoing project headed by…
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School of Echoes
Read more: School of EchoesUltra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through “militant sound investigations”. “While the image determines much of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to…
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Nameless Vigilantes
Read more: Nameless VigilantesAnonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is…
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French Feminist Collective Bearded Stand-ins
Read more: French Feminist Collective Bearded Stand-insFounded in 2008, the French Feminist Collective, La Barbe, targets inequities of female representation in media and cultural/governmental institutions. La Barbe, meaning “beard” in French, is also an old colloquial expression for “enough is enough!”. Known as barbues, the female…
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The Laundromat Project
Read more: The Laundromat ProjectWASH CLOTHES :: MAKE ART :: BUILD COMMUNITY The Laundromat Project brings engaging, community-responsive art and artists into local coinops across Greater New York City. By helping turn imaginations into creative fuel, we empower communities of color living on modest…
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Bringing Awareness to the TGI Experience
Read more: Bringing Awareness to the TGI ExperienceKokumo, pronounced “koh-koo-mah”, is a trans gender activist whose very name embodies her bold path of resistance. Taken from the West African dialect Yoruba, Kokumo means “this woman will not die.” Kokumo chose her name in response to constantly being…
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Robin Hooding
Read more: Robin HoodingRobin Hood of Keene is the most popular act of engagement with the community that FreeKeene has experimented with so far. Robin Hood employs a handful of individuals to feed the parking meters in downtown Keene. They are funded by…
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Now Watch This
Read more: Now Watch ThisThe Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places. The SCP was formed in New York City in November 1996 by…
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Nuns and Shareholder Advocacy
Read more: Nuns and Shareholder AdvocacyThese Nuns mean business! Like most Nuns, the Sister’s of St. Francis in Philadelphia fight for causes in social justice, from fighting for farm worker’s rights to battling McDonald’s over childhood obesity. However, these nuns have recently taken it to…
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12-12-12 Humanity
Read more: 12-12-12 HumanityThis project features a collection of various artists, in which they submit a project/action/performance of human connection and communication in the busy bustling world of today. Holding this event on the notorious 12/12/12 (the day the world was supposedly supposed…