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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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Work Ideology
Practitioner:
Madison Liao
Date:
Apr 15 2022
Work ideology centers around sustainable work. Through fifteen interviews, workers and prospective workers were interviewed about their experiences with work and the job search. Those interviews are analyzed and compiled on work ideology. However, work ideology goes further than showcasing the interview results, it allows for anonymous responses to be entered as well, expanding the research’s accessibility to every worker.
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Project Orange- Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland
Practitioner:
Christia, Jacques, Greg, Mike, Andy
Date:
Nov 14 2009
Object Orange (formerly Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. is an artistic project in Detroit, Michigan which seeks to draw attention to dilapidated buildings by painting them orange.
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“Un violador en tu camino” (“A rapist in your way”)
Practitioner:
LASTESIS
Date:
Nov 1 2019
Last month, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, dozens of women gathered outside the supreme court building in Santiago, Chile—a country now beset by popular uprisings against inequality—for a feminist flash mob.
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Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to him
Practitioner:
Samsung
Date:
Mar 12 2015
A deaf man was moved to tears after learning that his neighbourhood had learned sign language just for him to promote the heartwarming message: 'A world without barriers is our dream'. Muharrem was unwittingly placed at the centre of an elaborate stunt in which he was secretly filmed encountering a host of strangers in a series of staged meetings through Istanbul.
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"Glory" Performance at the Academy Awards
Practitioner:
John Legend, Common
Date:
Feb 22 2015
See below for a link to the performance of the song at the Academy Awards. From Salon: How Common and John Legend’s performance of “Glory” fired up Oscar night’s idling empathy machine by Sonia Saraiya
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Red Envelope Movement in London
Practitioner:
World Microphone (Chinese 世界麦克风)
Date:
Feb 14 2021
World Microphone (世界麦克风) is an organization created by students (most of them are Chinese) located in London. The organization has an account in RED, which is a popular social media in China. It often holds interviews and movements on the street in London, talking about world culture, food, and travel. Then, it makes short videos based on these interviews and movements and posts the videos on RED.
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Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activism
Practitioner:
Global Citizen Tickets Initiative
Date:
May 1 2013
By Steve Knopper
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Men in Grey
Practitioner:
Men in Grey
Date:
Aug 27 2010
From Media Facades Festival website:
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Book Bloc
Practitioner:
students
Date:
Nov 1 2010
The book bloc constitutes a line of demonstrators holding cardboard-polyurethane-and-foam shields that are made to resemble giant book covers. This tactic tends to be used in actions that oppose neoliberal reform of education and libraries, especially in the form of austerity measures.
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Melting Panthers
Practitioner:
Bob Partington, CLEO Institute
Date:
Sep 27 2020
American artist Bob Partington created a wax sculpture of a Florida panther and her cub to display at a nonprofit zoo in Tampa, Florida this September. When it debuted, the sculpture looked like nothing special. But as the wax began to melt under the heat of the sun, the bodies of the endangered species started to disintegrate. Within a couple days, the mother panther’s melting body revealed a simple message: “More heat, less wildlife.”
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"I'm Just a Slave" parody from Black-ish/The Roots
Practitioner:
Black-ish/The Roots
Date:
Oct 3 2017
On Tuesday night, Black-ish, one of the best shows on TV, returned for its fourth season. As expected, the premiere was outstanding. The episode was a history lesson. The subject? June 19, 1865, better known as the Juneteenth, the official end of slavery.
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Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suits
Practitioner:
Disrupt Dirty Power
Date:
Mar 26 2012
Sometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was loudly denouncing police violence against minorities and protesters, a small group of environmentalists dreamed up a way to get the police to focus on the crimes of the 1 percent, to the point of arresting five corporate suits on United Nations property.
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Human Syria
Practitioner:
persnal photos
Date:
Feb 7 2016
The wreckage of the Syrian city of Homs became the bittersweet backdrop for a young couple’s wedding pictures. Nada Merhi, 18, wore a traditional white gown when she married camouflage-clad Hassan Youssef, 27, on Friday. Youssef is a soldier in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army, which took Homs from rebels in November.
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Room13Delmar
Practitioner:
Ilene Berman
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Room13Delmar is a tricycle-based mobile studio conceived as a sculpture: a cross between a vending tricycle and a ‘Mary Poppins’ bag that unfolds to create a space for creativity on the sidewalk, at a senior center and at a veterans medical center, north of Delmar in the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
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Prescription Blizzard
Practitioner:
Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N.
Date:
Feb 9 2019
The scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground.
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Support Breasts, Not Dictators
Practitioner:
Burma Campaign
Date:
Dec 10 2001
Barbed-wire bra protest over Burma investment 
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Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock "Schitibank"
Practitioner:
Vanishing New York, #SaveNYC
Date:
Sep 12 2019
A source of delicious egg creams and daily newspapers since at least the 1930s, an unassuming shop at the corner of St. Marks Place and 2nd Avenue was renamed Gem Spa in 1957 and swiftly transformed into a meeting ground for generations of downtown artists, musicians, poets, and activists.
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Reclaiming the Monument
Practitioner:
Black Lives Matter
Date:
Jul 28 2020
Text by Jessica Stewart - In Virginia, one artist is helping his community reclaim a controversial monument in the name of Black Lives Matter. The Robert E. Lee Monument now stands as the only remaining Confederate statue on Richmond's historic Monument Avenue. While litigation ties up the statue's removal, light projection artist Dustin Klein is using his art to change the meaning of this contentious monument.
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Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Practitioner:
Nike
Date:
May 29 2020
On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead, one of the nation’s leading athletic apparel companies called on individuals to not turn their back on the painful issue of racism in the United States.
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