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We Animals
Practitioner:
Jo-Anne McArthur
Date:
May 11 2012
We Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its premise, We Animals aims to break down the barriers that humans have built which allow us to treat nonhuman animals as objects and not as beings with moral significance.
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OurGoods Trade School
Practitioner:
Rich Watts, Louise Ma, OurGoods
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Trade School is a self-organised, alternative learning space that runs on barter. It was started in 2010 in New York’s Lower East Side by Rich Watts, Louise Ma, and Caroline Woolard of OurGoods.org, a creative barter network. Over 800 students participated in 76 single-session classes during 35 days. Anyone can teach a class, and students sign up by agreeing to meet the barter requests of teachers.
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India's new comic 'super hero': Priya, the rape survivor
Practitioner:
Ram Devineni
Date:
Dec 7 2014
A new comic book with a female rape survivor as its "super hero" has been launched to focus attention on the problem of sexual violence in India. Priya's Shakti, inspired by Hindu mythological tales, tells the story of Priya, a young woman and gang-rape survivor, and Goddess Parvati as they fight against gender crimes in India.
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The Teddy Bear Catapult
Practitioner:
Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology (DIST)
Date:
Apr 1 2001
It was a classic summit protest at the height of the anti-globalization movement. Thirty-four heads of state from across the Americas were gathering in Québec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a sweeping trade deal with deeply anti-democratic provisions.
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Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)
Practitioner:
Project Row Houses
Date:
Jan 1 1993
Collective Creativity in the Beginning Project Row Houses (PRH) is, and has always been, a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, cultural and historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community engagement and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment. Urban Landscape as Canvas
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Bull Fight on Wall Street
Practitioner:
Yes Men
Date:
Nov 9 2011
Earlier today, a small group of Occupy Wall Street activists engaged in a near-successful corrida against the Wall Street Bull.
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Practitioner:
Art Not Oil UK
Date:
Apr 3 2016
On Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a 'disobedient exhibition'. Called 'A History of BP in 10 Objects', the exhibition featured artifacts submitted by frontline communities around the world who are fighting back against the impacts of BP's operations.
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Retirement dinner turned into hilarious protest
Practitioner:
UK Uncut
Date:
Sep 23 2012
Activists gate-crashed a retirement dinner for outgoing HMRC boss Dave Hartnett in Oxford, presenting him with flowers and a fake award for allowing large companies to avoid paying tax.
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This Photograph Put a Face on the Epidemic of Domestic Violence
Practitioner:
Donna Ferrato
Date:
Jan 1 1991
Photographer Donna Ferrato helped bring awareness to the epidemic of domestic violence in the United States through her raw and often graphic portraits of survivors of violence. But she fell into the work by accident after witnessing domestic violence firsthand.
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How Détournement Was Used as a Weapon in 15-M Protests
Practitioner:
Date:
May 15 2011
Just over a decade ago on May 15, 2011, a wave of social outrage began as the Spanish people collectively decided that they had had enough of the corruption, cuts, and inequalities affecting their country.
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This Private Network For Creatives Is Also A Safe Space For Women
Practitioner:
Mixer; the app’s co-founder, Anis Bennaceur, and marketing director, Cory Kennedy
Date:
Jan 1 2016
How would you describe Mixer? Anis Bennaceur: It’s a professional network for creatives—people working in arts, fashion, film and media, and music. You can showcase your work, past projects to everyone else on the platform, and you can search, discover, connect, and collaborate with a lot of other incredible and talented people working in those industries. Also, every member is vetted by our team, so we ensure the quality of the userbase.
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Negro Matapacos
Practitioner:
Maldito Perrito
Date:
Jan 1 2015
The streets of Santiago are once again alive with the spirit of revolution. For weeks now, working-class Chileans have occupied national monuments and blocked major intersections in protest of widespread inequality. They desire full reform — a request so long in the making that it is practically tradition. The country’s floundering political elite offer half measures while dispatching riot police and the military.
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Disasters of War in East Ukraine
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Regina Khidekel
Date:
May 3 2016
"Disasters of War in East Ukraine" 1235 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11230 October 10, 11 am – November 11, 7 pm Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews.
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Broadsides
Practitioner:
Tim Devin
Date:
Mar 1 2011
"Since March 2011, the artist Tim Devin has been putting broadsides (small posters) up around the Boston area. The posters come in different kind of flavors: Street Surveys, Mappy Facts or Poems by Paul Johns.
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Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest
Practitioner:
Barnard
Date:
Mar 25 2018
“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest, welcoming approximately 40 zine-makers eager to share their work.
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Expectations
Practitioner:
Jorge Rodriguez Gerarda
Date:
May 13 2015
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerarda is a cuban Artist that was born in 1966. One of his projects was naed Expectations in which he did with sand and grave a massive image of Barack Obama, as a way to reflect all what this presidential candidate representated in terms of change.
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Word Sound Power | Blood Earth
Practitioner:
Delhi Sultanate, Chris McGuiness, Kush Badhwar
Date:
Aug 10 2011
Word Sound Power
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Singing Disrupts Oil Auction
Practitioner:
Feminist Economics
Date:
Feb 22 2016
Utah environmentalists infiltrated a federal oil-and-gas lease auction and refused to stop singing until they were escorted out.
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Big Bossa
Practitioner:
Wajiha Jendoubi
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Wajiha Jendoubi is an actress and one of Tunisia's best-known comedians. To be a woman comedian in this North African nation can be a challenge, but the country's gender gap is narrowing for the first time in almost a decade and Wajiha sees Tunisia as a country that stands for women's rights and supports it.
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Shh
Practitioner:
33Wang
Date:
Aug 30 2019
A street photography exhibition located in Beijing’s most crowded tourist attractions, Dongsi Hutong, to get a voice the Chinese government’s censorship of art works in public space. To hedge the city’s regulation , the human body photography were displayed in the street stores of Dongsi Hutong.
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