Most Effective

Here are a few projects that the Actipedia staff believe show clear evidence of effectiveness. Feel free to write to us with any other suggestions!

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Date:
    Dec 1 1955
    In 1900, Montgomery, Alabama had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race, and conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites,…
  • Experimental Wall #27
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Jun 1 1999
    This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions,…
  • Book Burning Party – Troy Library
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    May 8 2012
    Troy, Michigan couldn’t afford to keep its library open, so it scheduled a vote for a tax increase. A strong anti-tax group waged a dominating campaign against it. Posing as a political group, an outside advertising agency posted signs around…
  • The Declaration of Sentiments from the First Women’s Rights Convention
    Date:
    Jul 20 1848
    The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 at the first women’s rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now…
  • Camp Casey
    Practitioner:
    Date:
    Aug 5 2005
    Camp Casey was the name given to the encampment of anti-war protesters outside the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas during US President George W. Bush’s five-week summer vacation there in 2005, named after Iraq War casualty US Army Specialist…
  • Pothole Party!
    Date:
    Jul 1 2012
    “Potholes!” That’s what Nikola Pisarev, a co-founder of the Contemporary Art Center (CAC) in North Macedoniona responded with when asked what sort of impact creative activism can have. Nikola went on to explain what he meant, describing a series of…