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The Last American Indian On Earth
Practitioner:
Gregg Deal
Date:
Apr 17 2013
"The Last American Indian on Earth", a performance art piece by Gregg Deal,a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe originally based in northwestern Nevada.The project documents what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of a stereotype, one that for most is the only authentic expression of what it means to be an Indigenous person of the American continent.
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I-75 Project
Practitioner:
Norm Magnusson
Date:
Jan 1 2018
For the past few years, I've been creating what I call "art of social conscience:" tv spots, viral emails, paintings and posters, but none of it has engaged viewers as much as this series of "historical" markers, each one a small story containing a discrete point of view.
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Walmart Worker Flash Mob
Practitioner:
Walmart Employees
Date:
Sep 5 2013
September 5th, 2013, Raleigh, NC - As Walmart workers petition managers to reinstate employees who have been unfairly treated, a flash mob breaks out. SEE VIDEO.
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Ali Ferzat, Who Fearlessly Wields His Pen as a Powerful Weapon Against Oppressive Regimes
Practitioner:
Ali Ferzat
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Ali Ferzat, the daring political cartoonist from Syria, fearlessly wields his pen as a powerful weapon against oppressive regimes. His illustrations pierce through the fabric of authoritarianism, revealing the raw truth that lies beneath. Despite facing unimaginable brutality, Ferzat's indomitable spirit remains unyielding.
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Protect Nurses
Practitioner:
National Nurses United
Date:
Apr 21 2020
Registered Nurses will be holding a protest in front of the White House on Tuesday, April 21 to call attention to the tens of thousands of health care workers nationwide who have become infected with COVID-19 due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). The nurses, members of National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of RNs in the country, will be practicing social distancing and will read aloud the names U.S.
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Rolezinho
Practitioner:
Brazilian Youths
Date:
Dec 9 2013
This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below):
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Street Art Used to Fill Urban Emptiness
Practitioner:
Nikita Nomerz
Date:
Mar 19 2013
In his ongoing street art series “The Living Wall,” Russian artist Nikita Nomerz brings life to decrepit buildings in Russia by painting faces on them. Nomerz travels extensively around Russia and makes an effort to paint a character in each place he visits. He talks about his art in this interview with Global Street Art.
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Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)
Practitioner:
Tim DeChristopher
Date:
Jul 27 2011
In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, along with his church group, was protesting outside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah's red rock country. Tim decided to take his protest inside and disrupt the auction itself. Instead, at the door, he was offered a bidder's paddle — which, after a split second of hesitation, he accepted.
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GreeenMarket
Practitioner:
GrowNYC
Date:
Jan 2 2000
GrowNYC is a nonprofit that promotes community values through environmental missions. One of GrowNYC's programs is the GreenMarkets, which are fresh produce markets that are set up in various neighborhoods in the city, each one unique to the area. These markets focus on bringing local farmers into the community as well as promoting awareness of seasonal produce in order to limit the environmental damage of importing goods.
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Share It To The End
Practitioner:
Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth
Date:
May 6 2014
To call attention to bullying, the Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth has released a video that gets shorter each time it is viewed. Hosted on a site called Share It To The End, the short animated video depicts a boy getting bullied at school and telling us he always feels alone and doesn’t feel safe anywhere.
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One People Flash Mob
Practitioner:
dancewithoutborders
Date:
Dec 13 2011
On 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at OccupySF & Oakland to dance the world awake. 
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End Bad Breath
Practitioner:
Seymour Chwast
Date:
Jun 5 1968
Wired Article:
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Cowboy Carter - Beyoncé’s Act of Reclamation
Practitioner:
Beyonce
Date:
Mar 29 2024
Can’t say she didn’t warn us: As per her Instagram message last week, Cowboy Carter, the Act II sequel to 2022’s Renaissance, is a Beyoncé album, not a country album.
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Cliteracy
Practitioner:
Sophia Wallace
Date:
Jun 1 2012
According to the artist:
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Syria: Third Space
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jan 21 2015
This exhibition is a collection of work by displaced Syrian artists. With the support of the British Council, 'Syria: Third Space' demonstrates the roles that artists play in supporting recovery and resilience. It seeks to show how artists can break boundaries, support and unite communities, re-interpret and offer alternative viewpoints through their practice. Syria: Third Space
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Lines
Practitioner:
Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho
Date:
Jan 1 2017
Located off the west coast of Scotland are the Outer Hebrides, an island chain where Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho decided to install their piece, Lines. The installation is composed of lines of light wrapped around buildings or hovering on a grass field. At high tide, the lights turn on, illuminating the serene landscape, and marking the height of future sea-level rise on the low-lying archipelago.
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Op-Doc A Conversation With Latinos on Race
Practitioner:
JOE BREWSTER, BLAIR FOSTER and MICHÈLE STEPHENSON
Date:
Feb 29 2016
In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/opinion/a-conversation-with-latinos-on...
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Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection Law
Practitioner:
The Animal Party
Date:
Sep 30 2012
Thousands of animal rights activists marched against a draft law on Sunday that would make changes to Turkey's Animal Protection Law No. 5199, seeking to introduce practices currently used in other countries such as collecting stray animals from the streets and euthanizing members of the “excess” population.
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Miss Landmine
Practitioner:
Morten Traavik
Date:
Apr 2 2008
A beauty contest for landmine victims challenges normal concepts of beauty. The search for beauty takes many forms. The traditional beauty pageant might be thought to be one of the less acceptable, concentrating as it does on conventional ideas of female perfection. Miss Landmine is a challenge to normal concepts of beauty. It is a beauty pageant held in Angola, a country ravaged by war and its aftermath, for women who have lost limbs from landmines.
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Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route
Practitioner:
Charlotte Thornton, Marcelo Zanni, Dominic Bailey, Adipat Virdi, Gerry Fletcher, Mamdouh Akbiek, Eloise Dicker
Date:
Apr 1 2015
Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighboring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation.
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