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Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game

Practitioner:

Konami Digital Entertainment and World Food Programme

Date:

Nov 30 2011

From Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most successful early games for change titles.

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Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind

Practitioner:

We Will Not Be Silent

Date:

Apr 8 2012

Embody the Message: Occupy the Mind This t-shirt / language project began in March 2006, when a small group of artists and activists decided to embody the historic words “WE WILL NOT BE SILENT” while doing a public action in New York City.

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Undercover investigation at factory farm

Practitioner:

The Humane Society of the United States

Date:

May 8 2012

By Joanna Zelman

Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyoming pig breeding facility.

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Overlooked New York

Practitioner:

Zina Saunders

Date:

May 13 2012

"To discover
the seemingly endless variety of enthusiasms pursued by New
Yorkers, whether they were carried from immigrants' cultures
from overseas or indigenous to the city landscape.

These are real New Yorkers who have found fascinating ways to

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smArt Action

Practitioner:

Puerto Rican and New York based Students and artists

Date:

May 14 2012

Smart Action

– english –

smArtAction is a collaborative art exhibition organized by a group of University of Puerto Rico and New York University student-activists. The exhibition will showcase artwork created during the 2010-2011 UPR student strikes or in conversation with the student movement.

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Bank of America’s new Automated Truth Machines

Practitioner:

Rainforest Action Network

Date:

Jan 1 2012

A couple of weeks ago, a group of activists working with Rainforest Action Network’s Energy and Finance campaign hit the streets of San Francisco to bring a little truth about Bank of America’s misdeeds to its customers—not in the lobbies of the bank’s local branches, but at its ATMs throughout the city.

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Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders

Practitioner:

Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed

Date:

Mar 29 2012

VOA NEWS March 29, 2012 By Nico Colombant

WASHINGTON--A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict.

In an audio montage of memories from refugees, the sounds of gunfire and explosions mix with crying babies. Narrator Michelle Orecchio describes how to reverse war's grip on so much of humanity.

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Unemployed Man Is the Unofficial Superhero of Occupy Wall Street

Practitioner:

Gan Golan

Date:

Oct 31 2011

Unemployed Man and his costumed colleagues stormed Wall Street on Monday morning, bringing some superhero street theater — and a 16-foot evil robot known as the Slot Bot — to the Occupy protests in New York.

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September 12th: A Toy World

Practitioner:

Gonzalo Frasca

Date:

Dec 1 2003

In September 12th: A Toy World, the designer Gonzalo Frasca seeks to explore the use of games as a form of interactive op-ed.

In the game the player is asked to engage in a simple action of dropping bombs to "take out" terrorists. As you play the game one realizes the 'procedural rhetoric' is rooted in the age-old maxim that violence begets more violence.

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Ovary Funny: Womens' Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In Stitches

Practitioner:

Government Free VJJ

Date:

Mar 30 2012

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Ghost Bikes

Practitioner:

Visual Resistance

Date:

Jun 1 2005

Ghostbikes.org is intended to be a site for the worldwide cycling
community where those lost on dangerous streets can
be remembered by their loved ones, members of their local communities,
and others from around the world. They also hope to inspire more people to
start installing ghost bikes in their communities and to initiate
changes that will make us all safer on the streets.

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On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex

Practitioner:

Sex Week at Harvard

Date:

Apr 16 2012

By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a table set up by a campus student group, this one held some unusual items: a gynecologist’s speculum, diaphragms, condoms (his and hers) and several packets of lubricant. Nearby, two students batted an inflated condom back and forth like a balloon.

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Corporations Ain't People

Practitioner:

Backbone Campaign

Date:

Sep 14 2010

Corporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest

September 14, 2010; YES Magazine

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Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with 'butthurt form'

Practitioner:

Anonymous

Date:

Apr 3 2012

There’s a fine line between offensive and hilarious, and Arizona lawmakers aim to make that boundary legally protected. If House Bill 2549 passes, online harassment could become a criminal offense – but some hacktivists are there to help you rejoice.

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Spectres of Liberty

Practitioner:

Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee and Olivia Robinson

Date:

May 1 2008

Spectres of Liberty is an on-going public, hybrid media project about
the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States.
Through this project we explore the following questions: How do we make
visible histories of people and movements which resisted a status quo of
oppression? What are the best forms to manifest submerged and complex

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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education

Practitioner:

Freshwomen of UC Berkeley

Date:

May 8 2012

On 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 university in the country.

(See photos below)

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Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 Percent

Practitioner:

Various Artists

Date:

May 14 2012

By Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones.

Various Artists
Occupy This Album
Music for Occupy

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Ninguno pa’ Gobernador

Practitioner:

Papel Machete

Date:

Apr 23 2008

Ninguno pa' Gobernador

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Gay And Occupy Activists Confront Scott Lively And His Merry Band Of Tea Party Protestors

Practitioner:

Gay rights activists

Date:

Apr 15 2012

By 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 good counter-protest?

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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women

Practitioner:

Unite Against the War on Women

Date:

Apr 28 2012

By Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog

“I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Velez told me her feminist views are often met with hostility in her “typical Bible Belt” state.
But today, she’ll know she’s not alone.

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Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.

Practitioner:

Calle 13

Date:

May 12 2012

By Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie, Special to the Los Angeles Times

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Mama's Day Our Way

Practitioner:

Strong Families

Date:

May 12 2012

By 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 for Reproductive Justice) present Mama’s Day, a multicultural, queer-friendly celebration of the folks who do some of the most significant (and unpaid) work in our society.

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It's OK to Say Gay

Practitioner:

Ok to Say Gay

Date:

Apr 27 2012

Missourians are fighting against legislation that would essentially make it legal to bully against LGBT students in the state’s schools. From the activists' site (http://oktosaygay.org/):

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Muppets Protest at Goldman Sachs

Practitioner:

The Art of the Prank

Date:

Apr 23 2012

By: Joey Skaggs

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Greenpeace asks Nestle to Have a Break

Practitioner:

Greenpeace USA

Date:

Mar 17 2010

Greenpeace released a video to spread the word that Nestle, the maker of Kit Kat, was using palm oil purchased from companies that are destroying the Indonesian rainforest and pushing orangutans towards extinction. The video, which features a guy opening a Kit Kat at work, pulling out an orangutan finger and taking a bite, shocked hundreds of thousands of viewers. The Greenpeace campaign against Nestle was a success.

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Play the News: Making the News Interactive

Practitioner:

Impact Games

Date:

Feb 13 2008

From Games for Change site:

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Dramatic Recovery

Practitioner:

Topsy Foundation

Date:

Mar 1 2010

What is it like living with AIDS? This heart-wrenching video for South Africa’s Topsy Foundation brings us through 90 hard days in the life of someone living with it. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end. It’s worth it:

Did you catch that? If you didn’t, watch it again. Spoiler after the jump.

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Interview with an Undercover Investigator

Practitioner:

Green is the New Red

Date:

Apr 11 2012

By Will Potter

Multiple states have considered “Ag Gag” bills that criminalize investigators who document animal welfare abuses on factory farms. Iowa and Utah are the latest to approve them. These bills, lobbied for by Big Ag groups, are part of a long line of attempts to blame activists for exposing abuses, rather than hold corporations accountable.

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Hoodies and Hijabs at Amnesty International General Meeting

Practitioner:

#MillionHijabMarch

Date:

Apr 11 2012

"At the recent Amnesty International Annual General Meeting, we decided to do an action stating we stand with Shaima Alawadi and Trayvon Martin. Check out the action, even Asma Mahfouz, one of the founders of the April 6th Movement in Egypt and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize participated in the action." -#MillionHijabMarch

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Flour Bluff students expand education through activism

Practitioner:

Flour Bluff High School students

Date:

Apr 30 2012

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MyPolarIce

Practitioner:

Artists

Date:

Apr 22 2012

MyPolarIce sells small pieces of polar ice at a popup store in Museum Square Amsterdam.

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Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop Petition

Practitioner:

Julia Bluhm

Date:

May 3 2012

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China's censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media

Practitioner:

Weibo

Date:

Apr 15 2012

The Guardian

By Tania Branigan

In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk. One of the clearest is: no gossip about top political leaders, their families or internal party affairs.

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"White Square" Activists Gather in Red Square

Practitioner:

White Square

Date:

Apr 9 2012

<br>Care2.com April 9, 2012 By Sarah Vrba

There have been regular protests in Moscow in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidential seat in March. Early last month, thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Moscow in response to what they felt were rigged elections in favor of Putin. Over the last month, organizers have faced an uphill battle as they have attempted to keep protesters motivated.

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Brinco

Practitioner:

Judith Werthein

Date:

Jan 11 2005

Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Brinco is an art project, product, and intervention created by the Argentinean artist Judith Werthein for the 2005 inSITE Biennial held on the border of Tijuana and San Diego. Brinco—Spanish for "jump"—is a specially designed shoe the artist created for illegal migrant workers and immigrants who navigate the border region at night.

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Bug Memorials

Practitioner:

Carmichael Collective

Date:

Apr 18 2012

“The purpose of this installation is to make people stop, stare, and in that moment become aware of their surroundings” -- bit rebels

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After escape from North Korea, artist turns from propaganda to pop art

Practitioner:

Song Byeok

Date:

Mar 25 2012

By Paul Ferguson, CNN
updated 9:50 PM EDT, Sun March 25, 2012
Atlanta (CNN) -- Song Byeok had every reason to be pleased with his success. A gift for drawing led to a prestigious career as a propaganda artist and full membership in North Korea's communist party.
Then the food shortages started.

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At War With São Paulo’s Establishment, Black Paint in Hand

Practitioner:

pichação

Date:

Jan 1 2012

New York Times
January 28, 2012
By SIMON ROMERO
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — This mega-city’s authorities have waged war for years against what they call “visual pollution,” banning billboard advertising, demolishing abandoned skyscrapers and planning to raze concrete eyesores like the elevated highway known as the Big Worm.

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Racy offer

Practitioner:

Charlotte Roche

Date:

Nov 14 2010

Protests continue at Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility

Demonstrations against the German government's nuclear power policy continued as protesters marched near the Gorleben waste storage site. But one provocative author came up with a racier way to block a nuclear power law.
Protestors near Gorleben

Protests near Gorleben have died down but not stopped

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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing

Practitioner:

Channel 4 Education and Littleloud

Date:

Jul 17 2011

From the Games for Change website:

Through a series of thirty challenging levels players must balance the unreasonable demands of Boss, the temperamental factory owner and Boy, a gentle, hard-working child labourer. Together, the team must work to make the factory a roaring success supplying clothes to their ever-demanding retail clients.

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Color-Cycling

Practitioner:

Narcelio Grud

Date:

Apr 23 2012

Ciclo-Color

February 7, 2012, www.mastamagazine.net

Having a bike as vehicle and paint as a tool, "Bici-Brochas" brings new colourful lines to the asphalt and, according to the chosen route, leaves a hint of colour that breaks up with the sobriety of the metropolis and the smoke coming from cars.

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China activists lifted by blind lawyer’s escape

Practitioner:

Chen Guangcheng

Date:

Apr 29 2012

Associated Press

BEIJING — The surprising escape of a blind legal activist from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats is buoying China’s embattled dissident community even as the government lashes out, detaining those who helped him and squelching mention of his name on the Internet.

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Fur Free

Practitioner:

International Anti-Fur Coalition

Date:

Feb 5 2010

Anti-Fur advocates have been protesting through demonstrations for decades, throwing red paint on women wearing fur coats, passing out leaflets and sporting the slogan “Fur Is Dead” on t-shirts and stickers and spray-painting it on buildings in cities throughout the globe.

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WeTOPIA, Delivering "Joy" In a Real Way

Practitioner:

Sojo Studios

Date:

Nov 29 2011

Sojo Studios, a new entertainment company, made plenty of headlines this week with its first social game, WeTopia. The studio is gaining plenty of attention with news of its $8 million arsenal, a roster of partnerships with non-profits like Save the Children, Children’s Health Fund and buildOn, consumer brand advertisers, and Ellen DeGeneres as one its business investors and partners.

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Czechoslovakia’s two-hour general strike

Practitioner:

Czechoslovaks

Date:

Apr 30 2012

A general strike can be one of the most potent noncooperation methods
in the repertoire of nonviolent resistance. It is a widespread
cessation of labor in an effort to bring all economic activity to a
total standstill. Although it is easy to broadcast the call for a
general strike, it is exceedingly difficult to implement for the maximal
impact that it potentially exerts. What’s more, a general strike must

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Activist Hackers Temporarily Block Putin's Website

Practitioner:

Anonymous

Date:

May 14 2012

From Reuters
By Vladimir Soldatkin

Hackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin's web site on
Wednesday, carrying out a promise to disrupt government information
portals two days after his swearing-in for another six-year term that
has drawn street protests.

The hacker activist
group Anonymous used the "Op_Russia" twitter account to publicize the

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Sex Strike

Practitioner:

Liberal Ladies Who Lunch

Date:

Apr 23 2012

Mockery: Women’s New Weapon

SATURDAY, MAR 17, 2012, www.salon.com, BY TRACY CLARK-FLORY

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Pranksters Prank Nobodies Into Believing Some Nobody Is Somebody

Practitioner:

Chill Hill Media

Date:

Apr 10 2012

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It's MY Body

Practitioner:

It's MY Body

Date:

May 14 2012

It'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 layout.

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International demonstrations on Animal Rights Day

Practitioner:

Animal Equality

Date:

Dec 10 2010

Showcasing death to defend life

El Pais, Madrid

Activists protested with the organization Animal Equality (Igualdad Animal) in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Burgos, and Toledo on December 10, commemorating the international Animal Rights Day.

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