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APEC World Leaders Dinner Gets Occupied
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Nov 13 2011
A change in the programmed entertainment at last night's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gala left a few world leaders slack-jawed, though most seemed not to notice that anything was amiss.
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art in odd places festival NORMAL
Practitioner:
art in odd places
Date:
May 14 2021
Immersing in the art is what they are known for. As they slowly reopen, so is their annual public art and performance festival. Their mission statement says:“AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.” The title of NORMAL is to push the boundary of what is.
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Africa's Political Cartoons
Practitioner:
Africacartoons.com
Date:
Feb 20 2015
Tejumola Olaniyan founded Africacartoons.com, the first continent-wide digital encyclopaedia of political cartoons by African artists.
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Center for a Stateless Society
Practitioner:
Center for a Stateless Society
Date:
Jan 1 2016
The Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) is an anarchist think-tank and media center. Its mission is to explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority.
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Bikini-clad Peta 'bunny' braves minus 10 degrees cold to protest fur trade in South Korea
Practitioner:
Ashley Fruno, reporters
Date:
Feb 6 2018
An animal rights activist sporting only a white bikini, bunny ears and tail has been spotted protesting against fur in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which is hosting the Winter Olympics 2018. Ashley Fruno discussed the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (Peta) stance on fur in front of the Olympic rings at the Alpensia Resort.
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Russian Feminist Punk Rock
Practitioner:
Pussy Riot
Date:
Feb 8 2012
Anti-government protests in Russia are taking many different forms, from mass rallies and marches to defiant street art and music. Just recently, members of a feminist punk group were arrested in Moscow's Red Square after they performed a song ridiculing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The group, which calls itself Pussy Riot, says it's planning more stunts before March's presidential elections.
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Vaginal Knitting
Practitioner:
Casey Jenkins
Date:
Nov 27 2013
"Vaginal Knitting" Is the New Thing in Activist Performance Art by Adam Weinstein
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A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics
Practitioner:
Date:
Dec 16 2023
It all started when a 70-year-old fish market stall owner nicknamed “Booghy” was grooving in public, in violation of Iranian law. A new form of protest against the government is rocking Iran: a viral dance craze set to an upbeat folk song where crowds clap and chant the rhythmic chorus, ‘oh, oh, oh, oh.’
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Sheep Storm Paris’ Louvre in Farmers Protest
Practitioner:
The Farmers Confederation
Date:
Mar 28 2014
Sheep stormed into Paris’ iconic Louvre museum on Friday (March 28) as farmers protested against reforms to the common agricultural policy (CAP). A dozen sheep ran into the museum’s entrance underneath its famous glass pyramid, baffling tourists and aggravating museum staff.
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‘RBG’ documentary reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising
Practitioner:
Betsy West and Julie Cohen
Date:
May 4 2018
The Ginsburg without photoshopped sunglasses and a crown fueled a revolution with lawsuits instead of protests. She believed in incremental progress instead of bold gestures. She was projected to be a conciliator on the court, not its preeminent liberal dissenter. Now, “everyone wants to take a picture with me.”
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Poetry to challenge GBV from an intersectional lens – the Sari Red
Practitioner:
Pratibha Parmar
Date:
Mar 1 1988
Sari Red (1988), by Pratibha Parmar, is a visual poem. Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in 1985 in a racist attack in England, Sari Red eloquently examines the effect of the ever-present threat of violence upon the lives of Asian women in both private and public spheres.
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Gardens Speak
Practitioner:
Tania El Khoury
Date:
Jan 1 2015
"Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves may have recounted it. They are compiled with found audio that evidences their final moments.
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Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump
Practitioner:
Friend Dog Studios
Date:
Oct 3 2015
The video shows an actor as "your drunk neighbor" lipsyncing to real soundbites from Donald Trump. The artists who made the video claim, "If you close your eyes while listening to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, you can see and smell that neighbor you have with too many dogs and a drinking problem."
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Just Be - Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Apr 13 2017
The participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork.
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Nail Transphobia
Practitioner:
Charlie Craggs
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Over the past few years, the public’s understanding of the issues that transgender people face has grown exponentially, but many people have never actually spoken to a transgender person.
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Practitioner:
Cody Ann Herrmann
Date:
Dec 1 2018
Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was 20 years old,” Cody Ann Herrmann told Hyperallergic.
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Practitioner:
Melting Ice
Date:
Dec 1 2018
The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The Finnish group Melting Ice is spearheading the initiative with the intention of carving a 115-foot ice sculpture of Mr Trump’s face, and have dubbed the effort “Project Trumpmore”.
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A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot Police
Practitioner:
Ukrainian Protestor
Date:
Dec 9 2013
By: Patrick Randall KIEV — Several thousand pro-European Ukrainians demonstrated in the capital for President Viktor Yanukovych's resignation over the weekend. One man even played the piano in front of Ukranian riot police on Kiev’s Independence Square.
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Flower Power
Practitioner:
civilian
Date:
Oct 21 1967
Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles.
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No Shopping, Just Stop It!
Practitioner:
Buy Nothing Day Christmas
Date:
Nov 23 2012
Internet spreads word as networks shun adverts for Buy Nothing Day Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles The Guardian, Friday 24 November 2000 Today is America's Buy Nothing Day. An event that was started to poke pointed fun at consumerism is now being celebrated in more than 40 countries, embarrassing television networks and demonstrating the power of the internet as a political organising tool.
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