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Fresh Direct
Practitioner:
Angel Adelaj
Date:
Mar 1 2014
Our solution: Fresh Direct Nigeria (Fresh Direct Produce and Agro-Allied Services) is “City Farming” using stackable container farms! Fresh DirectNigeria brings fresh premium organic produce closer to market with our Container Farm Technology.
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Three months after the tragedy in Uvalde, families cope with art, activism and aspirations
Practitioner:
Ruben Esquivel
Date:
Sep 10 2022
Alexandria "Lexi" Aniyah Rubio was looking forward to playing volleyball when she got to junior high. She dreamed of going to law school one day, and she loved astrology, butterflies, and the color yellow.
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Streets into Gardens
Practitioner:
Reclaim the Streets
Date:
May 14 1999
During this time rent prices in the Lower East Side/ East Village were rising due to the presence of many community gardens. In response to this, then Mayor Giuliani decided to sell the 198 gardens in question. Streets into Gardens was an effective project that engaged the neighborhood into a collective of change.
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“Don’t Look Up” director McKay gives to climate activists
Practitioner:
Adam McKay
Date:
Sep 20 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” a 2021 satire about two scientists who try in vain to warn the world about a planet-destroying comet, the scientists’ desperate plea for action ultimately doesn’t work. But don’t take that as McKay’s view on the power of activism to change the course of the climate crisis, the existential threat his movie was really about.
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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Practitioner:
Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Theater Zoukak, Beirut
Date:
May 4 2016
From the two shores of the Mediterranean, Zoukak theatre company and cultural association (Beirut) and Center for cultural decontamination CZKD (Belgrade) collaborates by sharing their experiences and knowledge in working within sociopolitical contexts in the field of art and culture.
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Tiny Pricks Project
Practitioner:
Diana Weymar
Date:
Jan 8 2018
Tiny Pricks is a public art project created and curated by Diana Weymar. Contributors from around the world are stitching Donald Trump’s words into textiles, creating the material record of his presidency and of the movement against it. Tiny Pricks Project holds a creative space in a tumultuous political climate.
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HeForShe
Practitioner:
UN Women
Date:
Sep 20 2014
HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights, by encouraging them to take action against negative inequalities faced by women and girls.
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Trash Tycoon: A Game about "Upcycling"
Practitioner:
Guerillapps
Date:
Sep 1 2011
Trash Tycoon is an upcycling social network game developed by Guerillapps. The game applies traditional social gameplay features to highlight real-world issues such as waste, water, and “green” activities. Gameplay includes cleaning trash, recycling, and constructing products and decorations out of recycled material.
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Campaign aims to make Hong Kong a key player in fight against slavery
Practitioner:
at least three international companies, Julie Lim
Date:
Oct 28 2017
At least three international companies have committed to join the fight against slavery in a campaign that aims to make Hong Kong the hub in Asia to tackle human-trafficking.
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on ​protesters
Practitioner:
Natasha Walter
Date:
Feb 5 2023
Melissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career in business, she moved to the UK with her second husband. She then built another career working with survivors of domestic violence, before setting up a climate emergency centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
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Taco Bell Boycott
Practitioner:
Coalition of Imolakee Workers
Date:
Jan 1 2001
For years, workers in Florida’s tomato fields have endured poverty wages and terrible working conditions. In 1993, a small, community-based organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) formed to demand an end to these unfair labor practices.
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"The shoes are marching for us"
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Nov 29 2015
A 7-year-old's sneakers. An accountant's slippers. Gold heels with spikes and a piece of paper carrying a message: "Invest in renewable (energy) ... now." Thousands of shoes stood in silent protest on Sunday in Paris.
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Under the same sky
Practitioner:
Tahir Ün
Date:
Sep 1 2017
"Under the Same Sky" bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles were made. Letters and photographs are handed out to young people, friendships are being established.
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Iaioflautas
Practitioner:
gente mayor
Date:
May 15 2011
Los iaioflautas son un grupo heterogéneo y variable de personas mayores. Surgen al calor de las Acampadas que proliferearon en el Estado español en mayo del 2011. En su manifiesto se definen así:
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Everyday Sexism Project
Practitioner:
laura@everydaysexism.com
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Started by UK resident Laura Bates, The Everyday Sexism project is an open forum for women to record their stories of experienced sexism. The project was started as a means to show that gender inequality and sexism pervade contemporary society.
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Restore the Fourth
Practitioner:
Restore the Fourth
Date:
Jul 4 2013
Restore the Fourth is a privacy movement started in the summer of 2013, in reaction to Edward Snowden's revealing of the National Security Administration's extensive spying on American and foreign citizens. The movement seeks to uphold the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects American citizens against unfounded search and seizure of their property or identity.
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Iran, Facebook, and the Limits of Online Activism
Practitioner:
Green Party
Date:
Feb 12 2012
BY CAMERON ABADI | FEBRUARY 12, 2010
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Sweeping Out Corruption
Practitioner:
Rio de Paz (Peace Rio)
Date:
Sep 12 2011
Four ministers in Brazil have resigned since January after being implicated in corruption, and on Wednesday, protesters showed they've had enough.
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Wheatfield - A Confrontation
Practitioner:
Agnes Denes
Date:
May 3 1982
Architectural Digest:
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Controversy in the Wild Kingdom of Couture
Practitioner:
Kylie Jenner
Date:
Jan 25 2023
PARIS — Ten a.m. on a frigid Monday morning, the first day of the couture shows, and Kylie Jenner was strutting through the marble halls of the Petit Palais trying to find her seat for Schiaparelli, shoehorned into spiky stilettos and a black velvet one-arm gown, a full-size tawny lion’s head jutting from the side. It was as if Aslan had taken a break from Narnia and stuck his muzzle through a time-space continuum under her armpit.
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