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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education
Read more: UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public educationOn Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female first-year students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public…
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It’s MY Body
Read more: It’s MY BodyIt’s My Body! was initially a project for Stephen Duncombe’s Media Activism class during Spring 2012. We designed and developed the concept for the class, but have yet to set up the actual website. The images below show the site’s…
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Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’
Read more: Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’ANKARA, Turkey — In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school.The scene and its themes of nudity and sexual depravity are at…
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Mama’s Day Our Way
Read more: Mama’s Day Our WayBy Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…
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Gay And Occupy Activists Confront Scott Lively And His Merry Band Of Tea Party Protestors
Read more: Gay And Occupy Activists Confront Scott Lively And His Merry Band Of Tea Party ProtestorsBy Evan Mulvihill, Queerty. When Tea Party activists gathered in Boston yesterday afternoon, they weren’t given license to shout their Small Government slogans at disinterested passersby—liberal activists of all stripes showed up to shout them down. Who doesn’t love a…
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Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Read more: Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial ComplexWHAT: Noise Demo WHEN: 8:00pm, Saturday, May 12th WHERE: Bayview Correctional Facility – West 20th Street & 11th Avenue New York, New York COST: Free As the Global Class War continues to heat up, the state continues its ongoing use…
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Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 Percent
Read more: Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 PercentBy Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones. Various Artists Occupy This Album Music for Occupy Like the ’60s-era social movements that inspired the performers at Woodstock, the Occupy movement has proved an irresistible draw to musicians. Dropping in on Zuccotti Park last…
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Iconic artists release ‘Toast To Freedom’ song for Amnesty’s 50th anniversary
Read more: Iconic artists release ‘Toast To Freedom’ song for Amnesty’s 50th anniversaryReleased to mark World Press Freedom Day, song is also tribute to recently-deceased drummer Levon HelmAmnesty International has released “Toast To Freedom,” a new and exclusive commemorative song dedicated to human rights activism around the world.The song, an ambitious collaboration,…
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Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.
Read more: Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.By Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie, Special to the Los Angeles Times René Pérez, lead singer of Puerto Rican alternative urban group Calle 13, knows a thing or two about teeing people off. Since the release of Calle 13’s self-titled debut album…
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The art of activism: Thapelo Motsumi & the Umuzi Photo Club
Read more: The art of activism: Thapelo Motsumi & the Umuzi Photo ClubPhotographer Thapelo Motsumi is one of many young South Africans who has worked with the Umuzi Photo Club to develop his artistic skills and engage his community. Now this “drop out” has had two exhibitions in London and has been…
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Flour Bluff students expand education through activism
Read more: Flour Bluff students expand education through activismCORPUS CHRISTI — Many Flour Bluff ISD students have developed an extracurricular activity that takes their education to the streets, to social media and toward a path of change: activism.Much of the students’ passion stems from the April 1 suicide of…
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Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop Petition
Read more: Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop PetitionSeventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to ask the magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in…