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student debt
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kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, an Exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Read more: kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, an Exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtStudent loan debt in the US today totals over 1.7 trillion dollars and is collectively borne by more than 44 million Americans, including artist kelli rae adams. With her installation Forever in Your Debt, adams converts this abstract burden into…
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Thriller Protest
Read more: Thriller ProtestThe following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: “Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher…
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‘Casseroles’
Read more: ‘Casseroles’‘Casseroles’protests, based on the tradition of ‘cazerolazo,’ consists of protesting by banging on pots and pans in the street. This took place in May of 2012 in Montreal and across Quebec, in response to the government’s proposed tuition increases and…
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OWS Subway Storytelling
Read more: OWS Subway StorytellingIn the Fall of 2011, after the Occupy Movement was in full swing, and meetings, actions and info sharing had expanded beyond Zuccotti Park, meaningful messaging and outreach tactics were were activated on a near daily basis. Subway Storytelling had…
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Read more: The Grace Period Blog/Performance“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a…