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2016
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V-Day
Practitioner:
Eve Ensler
Date:
Feb 14 2008
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery.
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Farmer's Haat (Market)
Practitioner:
Shweta Bhattad
Date:
Mar 1 2015
Farmer's Haat
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Day Care Center Sit-In
Practitioner:
building tenants
Date:
May 13 1989
Low-income tenants at a public housing project in Rhode Island — many of them working mothers with young children — wanted an affordable day care center in their building. With petitions, pickets, and letters to the city council, they built up a steady drumbeat of pressure on the key decision maker, the local Housing and Urban Development (HUD) director. At a certain point they decided to escalate with direct action.
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Virtual Museum Law Conference on the Pandemic Effects
Practitioner:
Work from home Lawyers
Date:
Mar 15 2021
"Work-from-home lawyers and museum staff convened by webinar on 11 and 12 March, for an annual conference on Legal Issues in Museum Administration, hosted by the non-profit American Law Institute with the support of the Smithsonian Institution. This year’s focus was decidedly shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has squeezed museums financially and pushed ever more museum activity into the digital realm.
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The New Activism of Japan's Youth
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Date:
Aug 20 2009
Young Japan: For too long, Japan's youth have been a silent minority. Now, on the eve of a crucially important general election, they seek a bigger voice in forging the future of their aging nation
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Olivia Rodrigo's Fund 4 Good
Practitioner:
Olivia Rodrigo, National Network of Abortion Funds
Date:
Mar 12 2024
In conjunction with the GUTS world tour, Olivia has launched Olivia Rodrido’s Fund 4 Good, a global initiative committed to building an equitable and just future for all women, girls and people seeking reproductive health freedom. A portion of the proceeds from all ticket sales at the GUTS world tour will go towards the Fund 4 Good.
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"Your body is a battleground"
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jun 30 1989
A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.”
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iPod's Dirty Secrete
Practitioner:
The Neistat Brothers
Date:
Apr 24 2003
The Neistat Brothers first attracted public attention in 2003 with their blatantly critical work, iPod’s Dirty Secret. After being refused a replacement battery for an 18-month old iPod, [they] took to the streets of Manhattan on their bikes to sabotage iPod’s omnipresent advertising.
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Yellow pigs
Practitioner:
Jobless Brotherhood
Date:
Apr 8 2015
In February , two leaders of a guerrilla movement here traveled to the financial district carrying a wooden container that contained three pigs, each painted yellow from snout to tail.
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Freedom of speech Lecture to a university occupation
Practitioner:
Raymond Geuss
Date:
Nov 29 2011
On November 29th 2011 Proffessor of Philosophy Raymond Geuss relocated a lecture he was scheduled to give to an occupied lecture hall on the campus of cambridge university.
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Lesbians 101
Practitioner:
FindChaos
Date:
Feb 1 2015
Lesbians 101 is a full-color, 16 page magazine-sized comic book packed with light-hearted education based on the most common set of questions lesbians frequently get.
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Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street art
Practitioner:
Noon El Neswa, Mona Lisa Brigades, etc.
Date:
Feb 18 2013
By Maha ElNabawi It was a landmark day when prominent women’s rights activist Doria Shafiq bravely led a march of 1,500 women to storm the gates of Parliament on 19 February 1951. After several hours of unrelenting protest, Shafiq was finally received inside the office, where the council agreed to consider the demands of Egyptian women.
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Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution
Practitioner:
Himanshu S, Aqui Thami
Date:
Jan 9 1999
Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution
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Photo: Mermaid Ocean Activist at a Climate Protest Against Fossil Fuel Donations & Subsidies at the Office of Far-Right Politician. Video: Displaced Mermaids Genetic Link To Bleached Reef Corals
Practitioner:
Sandy of The Sea
Date:
Jun 22 2016
Sandy of The Sea with Ocean News on the bleaching of marine species! This is an exciting yet troubling breakthrough for marine species. A new genetic study has proven that mermaids may be more closely related to fragile Branching Corals. Marine biologists have received test results carried out on Table Coral and Mermaids (Table Coral is a branching type of coral).
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Sun Mu: From Propaganda to Protest
Practitioner:
Sun Mu
Date:
Feb 7 2014
"Sun Mu is not the artist’s actual name. It’s a nom de plume that uses a combination of two Korean words that translate to ‘The Absence of Borders’. It not only represents what he feels is the transcendence of art but also the literal military demarcation line that keeps the Korean people separated.
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Rolling Jubilee
Practitioner:
Strike Debt
Date:
Nov 1 2013
Across the United States, 2,693 people have received a letter in the last few months, which identified a debt and read: "You are no longer under any obligation to settle this account with the original creditor, the bill collector, or anyone else." This is the work of the Rolling Jubilee project – a non-profit initiative which buys personal debt for pennies on the dollar in the secondary market (where debt is sold to companies who then resell i
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Poor Little Fish
Practitioner:
Yan Lu
Date:
Apr 4 2012
Is it possible that through affective design we can change our consumer behavior? Yan Lu and his "Little Fish Project" offer a design inspired solution to excess use of water. "As consumption is incalculable, saving is often neglected through daily consumption.
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Artist and Activist Niki Lopez Helps Trauma Survivors Through Art
Practitioner:
Nikki Lopez
Date:
Apr 11 2018
Artist and activist Niki Lopez is a survivor. From age 11 to 25, she was trapped in a religious cult in Georgia, where she was separated from the rest of her family. The cult's leader sexually abused her. But in 2000, Lopez escaped and worked with the FBI to put him in prison. She was later given a humanitarian award from the FBI for her help in putting her abuser behind bars.
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Chinese Contemporary Artist Liao Guohe’s “Bad Paintings” on Exhibition in Nanjing
Practitioner:
Liao Guohe
Date:
Nov 14 2014
Liao Guohe’s solo exhibition ----“Satisfaction Guaranteed”, the first-time all-round summary of his paintings in last 10 years, is held from November 14, 2014 to March 14, 2015 at Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China.
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United States of Attica
Practitioner:
Faith Ringgold
Date:
Sep 15 1971
In September 1971, after years of mistreatment and months of simmering tensions, more than 1,200 of the 2,200 inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the prison in protest of its substandard conditions and openly racist corrections officers.
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