Projects tagged
Australia & Oceania
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Occupy Small Street
Read more: Occupy Small StreetFirst Inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, #occupysmallstreet staged its first little protest in Melbourne’s City Square, as part of #F12, International Art + Occupy Day. Signs are made collectively, by regular Arts x Activism and members of the…
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Real Democracy Australia – Viral Participatory Poster Project.
Read more: Real Democracy Australia – Viral Participatory Poster Project.Do we need to crowdsource a new Australian Constitution? Does anything matter more than the environment? Should Australia become a republic with an Australian head of state? Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Controversial artist Carl Scrase is…
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Read more: Aboriginal Tent EmbassyIn the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the US, Aboriginal people were politically very active. In Sydney, Australia’s first Aboriginal legal and medical services were founded. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they lived…
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ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverage
Read more: ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverageQUESTION: Year after year, decade after decade, you alert the legal authorities to cruelty violations and suffering animals in peril, yet nothing ever happens. You know for a fact there are thousands of screaming and suffering hens inside a factory…