Tag:
Poverty
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The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine Ridge
Read more: The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine RidgePine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Lakota, designated as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This land and its people have endured many tragedies at the hands of the United States government. Over 500 treaties negotiated in…
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Lyrical Thirst
Read more: Lyrical ThirstWithout water, life would not exist. And yet, those of us in developed countries take it for granted; our shelves are stocked with hundreds of branded bottles, and it is freely given at restaurants, at schools, and even in parks.…
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2015
Read more: 2015The slogan of 2015 is “Art changes Perceptions, Perceptions change people, People change the world”. The organization has created an online community where anyone can post digital images of poverty existing in the Arab world. The action was created in…
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Rolling Jubilee
Read more: Rolling JubileeAcross the United States, 2,693 people have received a letter in the last few months, which identified a debt and read: “You are no longer under any obligation to settle this account with the original creditor, the bill collector, or…
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The Merit Shop
Read more: The Merit ShopThis shop is more interested in people than it is in profits. If you’ve got some mad dance skills, or even just some mediocre ones, you can purchase a variety of goods at The Merit Shop in San Francisco. The…
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Hotel Voices
Read more: Hotel VoicesThe Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels aka poor people housing in the Bay Area. Hotel Voices theatrically speaks to and educates the…
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Plutos: Chronicles of the Superrich
Read more: Plutos: Chronicles of the SuperrichTitle 18, Part 1, Chapter 17 of the United States Criminal Code: “Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt…


