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Citizen Video for Journalists: Finding the Story

Practitioner:

Witness

Date:

May 10 2013

There are so many videos coming out of Syria every day. Whose videos do you feature on Watching Syria’s War?

Singing Disrupts Oil Auction

Practitioner:

Feminist Economics

Date:

Feb 22 2016

Utah environmentalists infiltrated a federal oil-and-gas lease auction and refused to stop singing until they were escorted out.

Lebanese art rockers creating the soundtrack to the Arab Spring

Practitioner:

Mashrou' Leila

Date:

Feb 27 2013

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- They've been described as the voice of their generation -- though not one that everyone is comfortable hearing. Mashrou' Leila, whose name translates as "The Night Project," is a controversial alternative rock band from Lebanon, whose music has served as something of a soundtrack to the Arab Spring for many young people throughout the region.

Male students walk a mile in red high heels to help stop sexual violence against women

Practitioner:

University of Miami students

Date:

Apr 20 2019

"University of Miami students, mostly male, walked a mile in red high heeled shoes. They are walking a mile in her shoes. The mile long walk was in support of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®, an international men’s march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence. The organization, which says on Facebook that they were founded in 2001, has walks around the world.

We Declare The World as Our Canvass

Practitioner:

Street Art Utopia

Date:

Mar 13 2013

The website 'Street art utopia' has an amazing collection of pictures of street art from Belgium, NYC, to Brazil and Israel Palestine. Talented people sharing their art publicly for the streets and the world to see! Activism: reclaiming a public space, maybe...not sure, but it is public art with various messages...

Krewe of Dead Pelicans

Practitioner:

Ro Mayer, public

Date:

Jun 5 2010

In May 2010, as oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continued to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, growing outrage from residents in New Orleans at the response by government agents and corporate executives, opened up new horizons of political possibility.

Documentary --- The Two Lives of Li Ermao

Practitioner:

Jia Yuchuan, Li Ermao

Date:

Dec 1 2019

The documentary film "The Two Lives of Li Ermao" recorded the bumpy life experience of a transgender Li Ermao and her unique and moving story. "Others only live one life, I live two." Looking back, the "two lives" are not only the emotional disillusionment and the swing of identity that Li Ermao has experienced in the past 17 years, but also her helpless but accurate summary of her life.

It Was Never A Dress

Practitioner:

Axosoft

Date:

May 2 2015

From Time Magazine: It's not a dress—it's a cape We’ve all seen the woman in the triangle dress that marks women’s bathrooms. But what if that triangle silhouette isn’t really a dress?

Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum

Practitioner:

Occupy Museums

Date:

May 5 2017

The Whitney Museum of American Art’s pay-what-you-wish Fridays are typically busy. For two-and-a-half hours out of the 53 the museum is open each week, visitors can enter without paying the usual $25 admission fee, a brief and temporary, but recurrent, leveling of the playing field for art lovers.

Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)

Practitioner:

Queer Crisis Flash Collective

Date:

Jun 24 2014

An intervention created by the April 25 2015 Queer Crisis Collective organized by the Helix Queer Performance Network (HQPN), and part of an ongoing queer resistance project mentored by Avram Finkelstein. Over a period of 2 weekends, 8 artists met at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics to design a creative intervention during Pride month in NYC.

Chile's protest street art

Practitioner:

Mr Owl

Date:

Mar 1 2020

"The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from "Feminist power" to "All cops are bastards". They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground Zero), the name given to the area around Plaza de la Dignidad, where anti-government protests have been held - and at times brutally repressed by police - since 18 October.

Korean women are fighting back against deepfakes

Practitioner:

Korean Gender Activist

Date:

Aug 22 2024

A few dozen women, wearing white masks, held up signs protesting against pornographic deepfakes. On the afternoon of Friday, August 30, several South Korean feminist collectives demonstrated in Seoul to fight these sex crimes that are flooding the country.

University of Corrupted Sciences

Practitioner:

Faculty of University of Corrupted Sciences

Date:

Jan 23 2020

On the International Day of Education with students we have organized that creative action to ironizing the phenomenon of corruption in education. We founded “University of Corrupted Sciences” as a symbol of all the issues that have characterized the education system in our transition years.

Remembering

Practitioner:

Ai Weiwei

Date:

Sep 10 2008

In 2009, the dissident artist created a work to honour the thousands of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake. He recalls how the project, Remembering, angered China’s rulers – and changed his career for ever This is an edited extract from The Start podcast

Dior accused of ‘culturally appropriating’ centuries-old Chinese skirt

Practitioner:

Oscar Holland, CNN

Date:

Jul 28 2022

CNN — Dior is facing accusations of cultural appropriation after Chinese social media users – and protesters outside one of the label’s Paris stores – claimed that a $3,800 skirt was inspired by a centuries-old traditional garment.

untitled subway graffiti

Practitioner:

Unknown

Date:

Feb 9 2025

alternating yellow and white chalk on black blank subway advertisement spaces. "NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON" "RISE AND RESIST" "RESISTANCE IS CONTAGIOUS" "WHO WILL SAVE US? WE WILL SAVE US" found on the uptown C train platform at 50th street station. found on february 9, 2025.

Gay Rights Activists in Beijing Protest for Their Russian Comrades

Practitioner:

a small group of gay rights activists

Date:

Feb 14 2014

A small group of gay rights activists gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Beijing on Valentine’s Day to protest Russia’s antigay laws. Behind a rainbow banner that read “To Russia with Love,” a dozen activists cheered as three couples puckered up and kissed in front of a countdown clock for the Sochi Winter Olympics outside the embassy’s tall walls.

Pigasus for President

Practitioner:

Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Yippies

Date:

Aug 23 1968

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, the Yippies (Youth International Party) nominated a pig for president, with the campaign pledge: “They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate a president and the people eat him.” This porcine political maneuver was the brainchild of sixties activists Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.