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culture jamming
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RAT-PAC
Read more: RAT-PACThe Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee is a Super PAC with the mission of challenging great Artists to create public works of political art meant to inform communities, start conversations and drive media coverage on progressive issues, and empowering…
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ButActually | The Hashtag Activist Dictionary
Read more: ButActually | The Hashtag Activist DictionaryButactually.com is a new kind of online dictionary created by a team of students at NYU Gallatin who seek to document, organize, and provide a platform for anyone to share new activist hashtags. Since 2009 hashtags have been used to…
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Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in Australia
Read more: Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in AustraliaIn March 2013 we started a grassroots boycott movement against Coca-Cola for exploiting legal loopholes to kill off container deposit recycling in the Northern Territory. We simply used the same successful strategy as the ANZ Out of Order action, putting…
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Santorum
Read more: Santorum“The campaign for the neologism “santorum” started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word “santorum”[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator…
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Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation Front
Read more: Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation FrontFor 35 years, the Billboard Liberation Front have been altering public advertisements in San Francisco under the cover of night, strategically changing words or phrases to invert the intended message of corporate sponsors. Considering their guerrilla reclamation of public space…
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ANZ is Out of Order Campaign – Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in Australia
Read more: ANZ is Out of Order Campaign – Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in AustraliaOn the 6th February 2013, 40 activists across 6 states plastered 110 ANZ ATMs with ‘Out of Order’ notices, sharing them on social media the following day. The objective was to use a hoax style action to exploit mainstream media…
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Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance
Read more: Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance“Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance is a participatory experiment. It is art and action. It came into being in 2001 as a response to Adbusters magazine’s call for foolish action on the first of April. What began as a single happening in…