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Documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico

Date:
May 13 2017

Puerto Rico doesn’t know what’s going on here, and if they do, they’re ignoring us.” So opens Gabriel Miranda’s documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico. Focused on the coastal community of Vietnam, which is located in the Guaynabo, the doc tells the…

Immortal Fans

Practitioner:
Sport Club Recife

Date:
May 13 2017

From this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27632527 A campaign by one of Brazil’s biggest football clubs to encourage fans to become organ donors has led to a massive rise in the number of life-changing transplants and reduced waiting lists for organs in the…

CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISON

Practitioner:
The Instituto Penal Talavera

Date:
May 13 2017

In its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving…

LUSH Launches Massive Campaign to End Shark Slaughter on World Oceans Day

Practitioner:
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics

Date:
May 13 2017

Vegan-friendly cosmetics brand LUSH is launching the “Shark Attack” campaign to save sharks from slaughter on World Oceans Day (June 8). Starting today, LUSH will re-launch its popular vegan Shark Fin Soap online (available in-store starting June 8) and donate…

Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan

Practitioner:
Puerto Rican citizens, Rafael Acevedo

Date:
May 13 2017

Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a…

“Un violador en tu camino” (“A rapist in your way”)

Practitioner:
LASTESIS

Date:
May 13 2017

Last month, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, dozens of women gathered outside the supreme court building in Santiago, Chile—a country now beset by popular uprisings against inequality—for a feminist flash mob. Organized by a…

Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone

Practitioner:
Chiliean protesters

Date:
May 13 2017

A technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn’t use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead,…

Mierdazo

Practitioner:
Bilal Yilmaz, Dmitry Borshch

Date:
May 13 2017

After the economic crisis of December 20, 2001 in Argentina, there was a growth in the participation in all types of protests and claims of the different sectors affected by the crisis (against banks by savers, roadblocks and mobilizations of…

Birthday Party For A Pothole

Practitioner:
Amemos Tijuana

Date:
May 13 2017

A group of young adults under the name of “Love Tijuana” (Amemos Tijuana) celebrated the one year “Birthday” of a pothole located at the Via Rapida (Tijuana’s Freeway) with balloons, banners, and even hats. The giant pothole that was covered…

“Until We Are All Free” Art Kit

Practitioner:
Culture STrike

Date:
May 13 2017

Art has the power to move our imaginations and bodies, transforming the emotional and physical spaces we share. It has the power to build and transform social relations and to bring about equity and justice. In collaboration with Mobilize the…