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violence
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The Story of “The President Sang Amazing Grace”
Read more: The Story of “The President Sang Amazing Grace”“The President Sang Amazing Grace” tells the story of the 2015 attack that claimed nine lives at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. It first appeared on Zoe’s 2017 album “Small Brown Birds” and was widely played on independent…
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Pussy Riot Bring Their Music and Activism To Montreal
Read more: Pussy Riot Bring Their Music and Activism To MontrealPussy Riot are spreading their protests and activism beyond Russia. Away from Vladimir Putin’s censorship, they’re bringing their voices to Canada – a place where their message of resistance is resonating. On Nov. 1, as a chilling cold filled the…
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Music that Propelled the Indigenous Rights Movement
Read more: Music that Propelled the Indigenous Rights Movement“The Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 70s was a time of profound social change and progress for American Indians in the United States and Canada. In her outspokenness about the injustices facing Indigenous people, Buffy Sainte-Marie also sang…
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As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand Action
Read more: As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand ActionIn December – as many around the globe were preparing for the holidays – Sama, a former attorney, remained hunkered down in her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, trying to comprehend how her world had changed. The Taliban had just released…
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Kinshasa Costumes
Read more: Kinshasa CostumesThe collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot…
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Protest against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Read more: Protest against Iranian President Hassan RouhaniA Femen activist, Sarah Constantin, is hanged from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge to call attention to the large number of executions in Iran as she stages a protest against visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris, Thursday,…
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Shoot
Read more: Shoot“I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie. We see people being shot on TV, we read about it in the newspaper. Everybody has wondered what it’s like. So I did it.” – Chris…
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Unforgotten Campaign
Read more: Unforgotten CampaignBlair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and…
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Sex at the Specs
Read more: Sex at the SpecsThe “Perceiving Freedom” glasses sculpture on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade looking towards Robben Island, commemorates late President Nelson Mandela and the values of freedom and equality. On April 2nd 2015, as part of a Center for Artistic Activism School…
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Women Are Heros
Read more: Women Are HerosFilm correlating to the project of the same name by JR – a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste. External sources: http://www.womenareheroes-lefilm.com/site_womenareheroes/ http://vimeo.com/15686678