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Mtendo MweMa Project
Practitioner:
Correne Gichuru
Date:
Oct 17 2013
Mtendo MweMa Project's mission is to provide a safe house and educational opportunities to girls, especially those in danger of female circumcision, early marriage and pregnancy, whom otherwise have no alternative but to return to their villages during the holiday seasons in Kenya, East Africa.
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Gerrymander 5K run and walk
Practitioner:
J.P. & Cinnamon Kennedy
Date:
Nov 4 2017
Runners and walkers planning to take part in a 5K race in Asheville early next month might do better with a compass — a well-tuned political compass, that is.
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Candlelight Revolution
Practitioner:
South Koreans
Date:
Nov 5 2016
The dramatic demonstration of people power on the streets, called the “Candlelight Revolution,” was sparked off by President Park’s abuse of power and corruption. She had shared classified information on state affairs with her close confidantes, including Ms.
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dronestream
Practitioner:
Josh Begley
Date:
May 10 2013
Josh Begley, a Data Artist and NYU Student, took publicly available information on recorded drone strikes and designed an interface for people to connect and sympathize with the reality of U.S. drone attacks.
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Typing...SYRIA
Practitioner:
Joi
Date:
Apr 1 2015
(SUBSCRIBE AT http://typingsyria.com/) Typing…SYRIA is a one month socio-artistic performance piece where any individual can subscribe to witness a WhatsApp conversation between two Syrian characters play out in real time.
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Myanmar coup: How citizens are protesting through art
Practitioner:
Myanmar's citizens
Date:
Feb 7 2021
"An atmosphere of fear and anger spread across Myanmar this week as millions of people awoke to find out the military had taken control, ousting the elected government. But how do you fight back in a country where protests have been violently suppressed before? For some, it has meant putting pen to paper and taking the battle online.
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Meet to Sleep
Practitioner:
Blank Noise
Date:
Nov 2 2014
Meet To Sleep, a campaign started by Blank Noise, asks citizens from all across India to come to different public spaces like parks, and sleep there in order to take back free spaces without being afraid for their safety. The first meet was organised in November, 2014, in Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park. And since then there have been eleven meets across various cities including Jaipur, Pune, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
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"From Wall Street to Cairo", featuring Fire in Cairo
Practitioner:
Matthew Conners, Photo Journalist by John Otis, Reporter
Date:
Apr 6 2016
Matthew Connors spent much of 2012 in Lower Manhattan making portraits of the protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a chance encounter during the course of that project made him do a 180-degree turn after meeting some Egyptian activists who had participated in a different uprising: the Jan. 25 revolution that led to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak. They convinced Mr.
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Candid Call Centre
Practitioner:
Angel Chen
Date:
Mar 29 2012
From March 29 to April 28, 2012, artist Angel Chen transformed Toronto's Whippersnapper Gallery into a pop-up call centre to field questions on the financial crisis. Phone lines were manned by passers-by, volunteers and guest operators, all of whom solicited callers for discussion about the current economic climate.
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Smuggling Books Across The Border
Practitioner:
Leila Abdelrazaq on ForThePeople
Date:
Apr 1 2016
For the People Artists Collective is a collaborative network of radical artists of color in Chicago.
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Global Citizen Festival Expands to India
Practitioner:
Global Citizen Tickets Initiative
Date:
Sep 12 2016
Jay Z, Coldplay and the Bollywood star Aamir Khan will join forces in India this fall as the Global Citizen Festival expands internationally.
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Wait Watchers
Practitioner:
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Date:
Feb 11 2013
From the photographer's website:
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Oct 12 2010
Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
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Discwoman
Practitioner:
Discwoman
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Founded by Frankie Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine Tran, Discwoman is a New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency—representing and showcasing cis women, trans women and genderqueer talent in electronic music. Started as a two-day festival in September 2014 at Bossa Nova Civic Club Discwoman has since produced and curated events in 15+ cities—working with over 150 DJs and producers to-date.
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Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginary
Practitioner:
Yaya Coulibali
Date:
Jan 1 2024
The veteran Malian master puppeteer Yaya Coulibali, born in 1959 in the village of Koula, around 100 kilometres north-east of Bamako, has more than half a century of experience in puppetry and has toured the world to perform his art.
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A Call to Action
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jul 1 2022
This piece is fascinating because of its use of just a few words and country names, muted colors, and the recreation of famous art. The artist used this canvas to depict a concern about events happening in the Gaza strip.
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Chile's protest street art
Practitioner:
Mr Owl
Date:
Mar 1 2020
"The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from "Feminist power" to "All cops are bastards". They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground Zero), the name given to the area around Plaza de la Dignidad, where anti-government protests have been held - and at times brutally repressed by police - since 18 October.
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Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Practitioner:
Nègès Mawon
Date:
Mar 30 2023
Haiti is a conservative society where Roman Catholicism shapes many of its social norms. Patriarchal norms, says Haitian feminist Pascale Solages, co-founder and general coordinator of feminist organization Nègès Mawon, have informed its strict views on abortion. In Haiti, women can’t legally access voluntary abortions. Doctors can’t perform them unless the woman’s life is in danger.
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Experiential Museum housing horrors of the past
Practitioner:
EDSA People Power Commission
Date:
Feb 25 2016
In time for the 30th Anniversary of the famed EDSA People People Revolution, a two-day pop-up museum in Camp Aguinaldo serves as a vivid reminder of a significant period in Philippine History. The interactive museum, which is composed of nine halls, recreates the martial law victims’ struggle for democracy, including the events that led to the bloodless revolution in 1986.
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Chick-fil-A anti-gay "eat-in" movement: new tactics
Practitioner:
Chick-fil-A
Date:
Aug 2 2012
In the 20th century India's Mahatma Gandhi famously used the hunger strike as political protest. In America today we demonstrate by eating fast food. Call it an “eat-in,” call it a “buycott”: By whatever name, it’s a tactic that’s growing in popularity. As Wednesday's Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day indicates, it’s a form of protest Americans find increasingly easy to swallow.
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