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creative activism
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to SmileStop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women’s voices, and faces, and…
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Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s Day
Read more: Connecting Peace Day and Valentine’s DayValentine Peace Project (VPP) Community Valentine actions started on the streets of Los Angeles with the sharing of thousands of poems on peace and expressions of love given out wrapped around carnations and later Fairtrade roses. Students also made paper…
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Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotent
Read more: Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotentOn November 7, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI visited our city. He would have been better off staying at home. Even before he touched land we had rendered him impotent for life. Yes: im-po-tent. A group of infidels who had met…
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Discongreso
Read more: Discongreso“Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work. The first thing…
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Cop d’ ull
Read more: Cop d’ ullThis project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. “Cop d’ ull” means a “a blow…
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Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Read more: Art and Activism (TV Documentary)A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects…
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Activism and Fiction (TV documentary)
Read more: Activism and Fiction (TV documentary)On 6 January 2012, Metrópolis (TVE 2) broadcast “Activismo y Ficción”, a report directed by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Núria Campabadal. It looks at a series of creative projects that lie somewhere between fiction and social activism. The paramount…
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Party #CierraBankia (Shut down Bankia)
Read more: Party #CierraBankia (Shut down Bankia)First cut the banks! In 2012 Bankia declared itself bankrupt and, almost immediately, asked the Government of Spain for €23 billion. The Government accepted, yet that very same week ordered €20,000 million worth of cuts in health and education. It…
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Party at the Unemployment Office
Read more: Party at the Unemployment OfficeThe crisis is here, let the party begin! April 30, 2009. At first the crisis was just a state of being, a kind of social sadness that paralyzed everything. To break this atmosphere we couldn’t think of anything better than…
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How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a dose of Mischief.
Read more: How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a dose of Mischief.Enmedio member Leonidas Martín at Creativetime 2012 (New York). His presentation “How to Disrupt the Financial Order with Humour, Creativity and a Dose of Mischief” is priceless. Watch the video and laugh. Just pause for a moment and imagine: the…