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Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Practitioner:
NYC Anarchist Black Cross
Date:
May 12 2012
WHAT: Noise Demo WHEN: 8:00pm, Saturday, May 12th WHERE: Bayview Correctional Facility – West 20th Street & 11th Avenue New York, New York COST: Free
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Arruinados
Practitioner:
O Teatrão/Companhia Fantasma
Date:
Aug 1 2013
In July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the Mondego River:Coimbra, Montemoro Velho, and Figueira da Foz.
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Representing Disability in an Ablest World: Essays on Mass Media
Practitioner:
Beth Haller
Date:
Nov 12 2010
As an add-on to my 2010 book, Representing Disability in an Ableist World. Essays on Mass Media, I have created this online resource site. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Representing-Disability-in-an-Ableist-Wor...
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500 advocated letters of removing gender discrimination in work culture
Practitioner:
Zheng Churan
Date:
Apr 26 2012
On April 26th, 2012, Zheng Churan, a feminist activist who was a senior at Zhongshan University at the time, brought 500 letters of advocacy to the school post office on a bicycle.
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Reporter's viral eye roll causes trouble with Chinese censors
Practitioner:
Liang Xiangyi
Date:
Mar 1 2018
By Steven Jiang, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/asia/china-viral-eye-roll-intl/index.html (CNN)It was the eye roll that resonated with millions -- and broke the internet in China.
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Protests and Posters in Kafranbel, Syria
Practitioner:
Activists in Kafranbel, Raed Fares
Date:
Dec 30 2011
A town in northwestern Syria has become the creative center of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Since the beginning of the uprising, the residents of Kafr Anbel have drawn signs that skewer the Assad regime and express outrage that the world has not done more to stop the killing in Syria.
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The Indebted States of America
Practitioner:
Eric Leppanen - EALART
Date:
Nov 2 2011
With past government shut downs and teetering the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling now eliminated, credit line increase after credit line increase? I thought my timely art piece may be interesting for your viewers and spark healthy/heated discussion.
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Afghan Activist Urges Taliban Engagement
Practitioner:
Female right activists
Date:
Feb 18 2023
ISLAMABAD — A prominent female rights activist in Afghanistan lambasted the global community Saturday for failing to come up with a plan or agreement on how to help her crisis-ridden country since the Taliban took control of it 18 months ago. Mahbouba Seraj, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke virtually from the Afghan capital, Kabul, to a town hall at the Munich Security Conference on prospects for her country under Taliban rule.
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They Shoot Horses
Practitioner:
Phil Collins at Tate Britain
Date:
Mar 23 2006
Text taken from website:
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True Connection
Practitioner:
Nadine Heimann
Date:
Mar 4 2012
True Connection is a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, driven by young female visionaries who set out to reach new horizons in healing, empowerment, education, and community building. We are pioneering a truly innovative “Healing Arts Program,” which integrates trauma education, expressive arts therapy, and natural healing techniques and modalities to help children recover, learn and grow from their traumatic life experiences.
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"Medicine Man," a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Practitioner:
Daniel Goldstein, John Kapellas, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Date:
Jan 1 2006
"Medicine Man," a mobile sculpture that MAKE ART/STOP AIDS commissioned from San Francisco-based artists Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas. The piece is constructed of pill bottles that Goldstein and Kapellas, and their partners, saved up from treatment regimens dating as far back as 1985. The artists assembled the bottles in the shape of the Virgin of Guadalupe, with an aureole of syringes arrayed around her body in a halo.
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Project 562: Changing the way we see Native America
Practitioner:
Matika Willbur
Date:
Feb 16 2014
Matika Willbur was given a grant by Kickstarter (the worlds largest funding platform for creative projects) to travel around the U.S. for a year and photograph Native America. The goal of the 562 project is to change the way we think of the Native American race, by shifting our collective consciousness and creating a positive lasting legacy of Native America.
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Bulgarian students protest for 'change'
Practitioner:
Bulgarian students
Date:
Jan 11 2013
“Wake up!” chanted some 2,000 protesters rallying in front of Sofia University after students, who have been occupying part of the university since October 25, called for faculty and anti-government protesters to join their demonstration. Protesters marched in the streets of Sofia to the beat of drums, chanting “Resign!” and “Red trash!”, blocking the traffic in downtown Sofia, AFP reports.
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Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant Activism
Practitioner:
Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin
Date:
Nov 23 2022
Laura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) about photographer Nan Goldin is a powerful and thoughtfully constructed film. Focusing on Goldin’s work with the activist group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), it allows viewers to continue appreciating the ongoing rebellion and inspiration of this singular artist.
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PAWA 254
Practitioner:
Boniface Mwangi
Date:
Feb 26 2013
Kenyan-based photographer Boniface Mwangi has captured his country's political and civic turmoil since the controversial presidential election in 2007. The violence and disorder he witnesses daily motivated him to take action, setting up a creative hub for activism called PAWA 254.
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Occupy Small Street
Practitioner:
Arts x Activism
Date:
May 22 2012
First Inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, #occupysmallstreet staged its first little protest in Melbourne's City Square, as part of #F12, International Art + Occupy Day. Signs are made collectively, by regular Arts x Activism and members of the public (adults and children) who stop by and have something to add.
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Syria's Creative Resistance
Practitioner:
Reported by Layla Al-Zubaidi
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Bashar al-Assad snores, his head twitching on a large white pillow. Suddenly, he wakes up. “The people want to overthrow me!” he screams, the pompom on his nightcap bouncing. 
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Guide for Youth Protestors
Practitioner:
Jessalyn Aaland
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The project consists of a double-sided, hand-drawn 8.5" x 11" quarter-fold sheet available to print and distribute freely. It features such topics as basic information on police tactics (kettling, LRADS, tear gas or pepper spray), ways cops might try to get you to talk to them, and your rights as a student.
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Destruction of the National Front
Practitioner:
Eddie Chambers
Date:
Dec 3 1979
TATE:
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Beauty In Transition
Practitioner:
Jody Wood
Date:
Jan 5 2006
Beauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By provoking face-to-face dialogue in a calming recuperative salon environment, this project aims to facilitate empathetic understanding and to unravel the reductive label of homelessness.
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