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LOGIC'S '1-800-273-8255' OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTH
Practitioner:
Logic
Date:
Apr 28 2017
Logic, a rapper known to incorporate meaningful messages with his music, recently released his newest track, “1-800-273-8255.” Covering topics of depression and suicide, the song and its subsequent music video uses the phone number of a national suicide hotline as its title.
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Unknown
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Apr 21 2015
I've decided to post about a recent experience, considerable an "action" in its nature, and how it felt, which was comparable to solicitation rather than activism. However, there was a sense for consciousness-raising regardless of any tangible outcome.
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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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La Radical Gai & Lesbianas Sin Duda: Spreading Awareness to the AIDS Epidemic in Spain
Practitioner:
La Radical Gai & Lesbiana Sin Duda
Date:
Dec 1 1994
On December 1, 1994 also known as World AIDS day, participating members from LSD (Lesbianas Sin Duda), La Radical Gai, and other allies sought out to protest against the push back of rejection that many of them were receiving from the medical and social perspective.
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#OpSteubenville
Practitioner:
KYAnonymous, KnightSec
Date:
Dec 12 2012
During the Steubenville, Ohio rape case in 2012, members of Anonymous uncovered and promised to release names of unindicted participants in the rape of a teenager by high school athletes.
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Pigasus for President
Practitioner:
Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Yippies
Date:
Aug 23 1968
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, the Yippies (Youth International Party) nominated a pig for president, with the campaign pledge: “They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate a president and the people eat him.” This porcine political maneuver was the brainchild of sixties activists Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.
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'What Would Thoreau Do?' Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline
Practitioner:
Will Elwell
Date:
Mar 18 2016
"The authority of government... is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed."
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"Amèrikan Takes Over the Fashion New World"
Practitioner:
Shanae Designs
Date:
Apr 21 2018
Originally written for the Onion, “Amèrikan Takes Over the Fashion New World,” is an article that speaks of a fictitious company that has broken through the clothing market. This company was created as a way to inform the consumer of the appropriation different companies often get away with due to their consumers lack of knowledge.
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I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matter
Practitioner:
Scarlett Westbrook
Date:
Dec 3 2022
This week, I got to make history. At 18 years of age, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of London for my work in climate justice, making me the current youngest holder of the award globally.
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Between A Rock and A Hard Place
Practitioner:
Bik Van der Pol
Date:
May 13 2013
Between A Rock And A Hard Place is a project consisting of a cleaning performance, a film and a big event on August 18, 2012. From the material recorded on this day, a film and a vinyl record will be made.
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The Scarecrow
Practitioner:
Chipotle
Date:
Sep 4 2013
Fast-casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long-running "Food With Integrity" sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award-winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.
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Weekly protest at the slaughterhouse
Practitioner:
Toronto Pig Save
Date:
May 10 2012
By Catherine Porter I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes' Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph the pigs en route to their death at nearby Quality Meat Packers.
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Threads of Resistance
Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance
Date:
Jul 15 2017
A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the nearly 560 pieces submitted for jurying, are shown on our website.
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Calle 13 brings its urban Latin sound and fiery politics to L.A.
Practitioner:
Calle 13
Date:
May 12 2012
By Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie, Special to the Los Angeles Times 
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Edward Snowden Hologram
Practitioner:
The Illuminator
Date:
Apr 7 2015
NEW YORK — Hours after police removed an illicit bust of Edward Snowden from its perch in a Brooklyn park on Monday, artists replaced it with a hologram. The group of artists — who collectively call themselves "The Illuminator" and are not related to the trio behind the original sculpture — used laptops and projection equipment to cast an image of Snowden in a haze of smoke at the spot where the sculpture once stood.
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Ray-Ban's 'Never Hide' Campaign Features Gay Male Couple For First Time
Practitioner:
Ray-Ban
Date:
Apr 26 2012
Eyewear style icon Ray-Ban is being praised throughout the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) blogosphere for a new advertisement that's both gay-inclusive and trendy to boot. Released as part of their "Never Hide" campaign in connection with the company's 75th anniversary, the new ad features two sharply-dressed gay men out for a romantic stroll on a busy sidewalk.
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Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan's Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual Arts
Practitioner:
Chinese Artists
Date:
Aug 24 2023
Japan has begun discharging nuclear wastewater into the ocean four times a year, each time lasting 17 consecutive days. Under their 30-year plan, it is estimated that approximately 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will be released into what was once a clean and fertile sea. Countless marine species are forced to leave their natural habitats. About 7.6 billion people in the world face life threats.
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The Apocalypse Project: The Ephemeral Marvels Perfume Store
Practitioner:
Catherine Sarah Young
Date:
Oct 9 2014
As climate change worsens, so will our collective sense of loss. Coastlines, cities, crops, and entire species will disappear. Artist Catherine Young has created a perfume line that bottles up the scents of things we enjoy today, but will be diminished–or gone–soon enough. During exhibitions, visitors are allowed to smell the perfumes.
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Practitioner:
Equal Justice Initiative
Date:
Apr 26 2018
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
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Sheep invade the Louvre
Practitioner:
Peasant's Confederation
Date:
Mar 28 2014
Twelve sheep and a sheepdog walk into the Louvre. If it sounds like the beginning of a joke, it’s not. In Paris Friday, French farmers protesting European Union agricultural policy herded a flock of sheep down the steps of the Louvre’s famous glass pyramid entrance and then into the museum itself. The protesters were from the Peasants’ Confederation and were fighting against subsidy cuts the EU is proposing that could hurt small farms.
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