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outdoors
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Robin Hooding
Read more: Robin HoodingRobin Hood of Keene is the most popular act of engagement with the community that FreeKeene has experimented with so far. Robin Hood employs a handful of individuals to feed the parking meters in downtown Keene. They are funded by…
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Sing for the Climate
Read more: Sing for the ClimateSing for the Climate is a big singing manifestation that first took place on September 22 and 23 2012 in Belgium. More than 80.000 people in more than 180 Belgian cities and communities sang the song “Do it Now”, urging…
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Lion Lights
Read more: Lion LightsRichard Turere, 13, has devised an innovative system to protect his family’s livestock from the wild beasts. He created “Lion Lights,” which keeps the predators away from the family’s enclosure. The Kenyan boy will speak about his invention at the…
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The Coultergeist
Read more: The CoultergeistIn 2010, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Ann Coulter to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In order to attend, students had to e-mail the College Republicans (allowing them to deny…
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Art in Odd Places
Read more: Art in Odd PlacesArt in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Art in Odd Places (AiOP)…
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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
Read more: Big street barbecue for the distinct peopleIn São Paulo, just like in many other metropolitan regions, public transport is not as effective as it could be. Buses and trains usually run overcrowded, late and on limited hours, so that owning a car increases a lot one’s…
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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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Lambrakis LivZ
Read more: Lambrakis LivZThe performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece. The title denotes the first…
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Pilobolus Vote Project
Read more: Pilobolus Vote ProjectThe Pilobolus Dance company, famous for their beautiful aesthetics of shadow play formed out of the dancer’s bodies, started the #PilobolusVOTEproject, encouraging people to form the words VOTE with whatever material they had around them, take a picture of it…
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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education
Read more: UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public educationOn Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female first-year students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public…