Projects tagged
Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World
Read more: A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the WorldA page about inspirational and uncompromising women, that celebrates the women who have fought to change the world we live in. Please post up links, quotes, photos of women who inspire you or of world events you feel may be…
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Citizen Video for Journalists: Finding the Story
Read more: Citizen Video for Journalists: Finding the StoryThere are so many videos coming out of Syria every day. Whose videos do you feature on Watching Syria’s War? Children, internally displaced within Syria, gather firewood. One comments, “we are laughing at our lives.” Liam Stack: Our goal is…
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Joey Skaggs: novelty silliness and well-packaged rebellion
Read more: Joey Skaggs: novelty silliness and well-packaged rebellionIn July 1976, prankster and satirist Joey Skaggs, calling himself Giuseppe Scaggoli, appeared before a rabid crowd, dressed in sharp-lapeled finery. He had some unfortunate news: that day’s planned auction of rock star sperm was cancelled due to a mysterious…
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Women In the Making (WIM)
Read more: Women In the Making (WIM)Desi is giving all she has to the project Women In the Making (WIM). From rooftop farming and summer education, to her radio show and online presence. She is an advocate for better health, food, and policy in Brooklyn, and…
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Moneyless Manifesto
Read more: Moneyless ManifestoMark Boyle has lived completely without money in England [since 2008], an experience which formed the basis for his first book, The Moneyless Man. He is also the founder of Freeconomy, an alternative economy with local groups across 171 countries.…
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Occupy Barbie Dream-House
Read more: Occupy Barbie Dream-HouseWe at “Left Youth [‘solid] Kreuzkölln” have been around long enough of this policy and its lousy consequences for us. But how to solve the problem now? The problem is clearly the capitalist society for us. Even at school you…
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ItCouldHappenToAnyone.com
Read more: ItCouldHappenToAnyone.comThe Battle for Healthcare Agitpop joined Dawn Smith and MoveOn.org in taking on Dawn’s insurer to get the care she needs and reform our broken health care system. They traveled from Atlanta to Philidelphia to share her story and bring…
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Public Option Annie
Read more: Public Option AnnieThe Guerilla Musical heard round the world What was it? ‘Public Option Annie’ was a highly visible musical intervention to reframe the health care debate in late 2009. They wanted to re-energize progressives frustrated by a summer of unchecked right…
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Disability Rights Activist & Artist Liz Crow Stages “Bedding Out”
Read more: Disability Rights Activist & Artist Liz Crow Stages “Bedding Out”Artist and disability rights activist Liz Crow has produced another iteration of her long-standing performance project, “Bedding Out.” In an attempt to bridge the divide between her private and public lives, she invited the world to witness the way she…
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DebtFair
Read more: DebtFairOccupy Wall Street’s art offshoot, Occupy Museum, has a new initiative: deconstructing the commercial art fair model. They are calling this art fair antithesis the DebtFair. Last May at the Frieze Art Fair, Occupy Museum distributed flyers and protest literature…
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Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti Park
Read more: Occupy Sandy relief effort puts Occupy Wall Street activists in the spotlight again a year after Zuccotti ParkBy Rebecca Davis and Meena Hart Duerson Those who believed the Occupy Wall Street movement was all but dead after its dramatic removal from Zuccotti Park last fall may have been surprised to see the group pop up again in…
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NJ Hero David McCauley & Rise Up Gallery Empowering Disabled Artists from JC to Miami
Read more: NJ Hero David McCauley & Rise Up Gallery Empowering Disabled Artists from JC to MiamiBy Summer Dawn Hortillosa Jersey City’s got an art scene of movers and shakers but few can say they’ve done what David McCauley has in the past two years. McCauley (seen at right), the head of Rise Up Gallery, has…