Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice
Read more: Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justiceMarisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t…
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Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in Brazil
Read more: Designers launch ‘Bolsocaro’ campaign to criticize price increase in BrazilFrom a distance they look like supermarket promotion ads, but up close, the text says the reverse: it details the skyrocketing food prices. This is the proposal of the action “Bolsocaro”, which spread posters (those known as lambe-lambes) by walls…
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Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”
Read more: Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’…
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Mexican Feminists make an artistic intervention on “national heroes” portraits
Read more: Mexican Feminists make an artistic intervention on “national heroes” portraitsWomen’s collectives and feminist groups occupied the National Commission of Human Rights demanding results to several neglected, open investigations of feminicide in the country. During the occupation, they interviewed the portraits of historical “national heroes” with spray-paint, glitter, markers, and…
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Women turned Protective Wall into a memorial
Read more: Women turned Protective Wall into a memorialAhead of Monday’s planned protest, police set up a barricade around the presidential palace, which a spokesperson described as a “peace wall” to prevent vandalism, the Guardian reported. But protesters said the barrier was symbolic of the president’s refusal to…
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Bicycles as a vehicle for protest in Guatemala
Read more: Bicycles as a vehicle for protest in GuatemalaNon-profit organizations and a multitude of Guatemalan girls protested together demanding justice and security from the government. Guatemala’s insecurity and cases of girls’ disappearances have increased over the years. The protest started outside the Government Ministery (Ministerio de Gobernación) early…
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Weaponizing pink glitter
Read more: Weaponizing pink glitterOn August 16, 2019 thousands of women marched in various cities across Mexico. One particular case may have triggered them, but these marches were an answer to the systematic violence against women and girls in our country. On August 6,…
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Papel Machete Fights for Liberation
Read more: Papel Machete Fights for LiberationThe work of a radical theater and puppetry collective, known as Papel Machete, produces and performs throughout Puerto Rico and the United States. Papel Machete was established on May 1, 2006 during protests responding to the government shutdown and political…
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Donate an hour
Read more: Donate an hourPrison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world. But one group of women inmates at a…
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Las Carpetas
Read more: Las Carpetas“Las Carpetas looks at the bureaucratic residue of a 40-year-long secret surveillance program that aimed to destroy the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Through still-lives, archival appropriation, and investigation, Christopher Gregory-Rivera provides a counter-history to the way many understand this period…