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Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activist
Read more: Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activistMiguel Hernández was a spanish shepherd, poet and playwright that dedicated most of his works to dignify the poor peasants of the rural areas of Spain. He was born in Orihuela in 1910, and went to school until the age…
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Mending Baghdad
Read more: Mending BaghdadMending Baghdad is a four-and-a-half-by-six-and-a-half-foot quilt memorializing Baghdad as it looked during the American bombing on the first nights of the Iraq war. The purpose of the project is to bring people together to do something symbolically curative for Iraq.…
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A ‘new poetry’ emerges from Syria’s civil war
Read more: A ‘new poetry’ emerges from Syria’s civil war“Today there is literature coming out of Syria that we could have never even dreamed of just a few years ago,” Atrash says.Rather than relying on metaphors and allegorical images, these new poems rely on literal, visceral descriptions, with a…
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Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Read more: Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage“On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric…
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Warscape Sonata – Bala Perdida
Read more: Warscape Sonata – Bala PerdidaWarscape Sonata is a transmedia project that documents and perform audiovisual information related to the current drug war in Mexico. Twitter hashtags, youtube viral videos and mass media are used as creative sources to document the militarized Mexico. This digital…
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FUBAR for Valentine’s Day
Read more: FUBAR for Valentine’s DayThis past Valentine’s Day the Fresh Juice Party pulled another “art prank;” this time sending chocolate shaped as dead American soldiers and sent them to U.S. government officials, especially to the previous Bush administration. This prank while very effective in…
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100 Faces of War Experience
Read more: 100 Faces of War ExperienceOn completion the 100 Faces project will consist of 100 Portraits of Americans who have been to the theaters of war in Iraq or Afghanistan (OEF,OIF). Each portrait is accompanied by a placard featuring a statement written by the person…
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Syrian Museum: “The Kiss”
Read more: Syrian Museum: “The Kiss”“A new photographic work created by Ayyam Gallery artist Tammam Azzam has captured the imaginations of the world, going viral and being shared across social media as a symbol of the power of love and human spirit in times of…
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The Scream: 21st Century Edition
Read more: The Scream: 21st Century Edition“The Scream: 21st Century Edition” was created by New York-based artist Jim Costanzo in response to the Iraq War. The piece is directly inspired by Edward Munch’s painting, “The Scream.” Costanzo expresses anger and frustration at the illegal American war…
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Iraq War Veterans Against the War
Read more: Iraq War Veterans Against the WarIraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and…