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UK Brandalism Campaign
Practitioner
Various Artists
Date
May 12 2014

From Glasgow to Brighton the streets of the UK looked a little different the morning of Monday 5/12/14. In 10 cities around the UK guerrilla install crews have been swapping over 300 ads with art works, creating the largest advertising takeover in world history.

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Resonate, Reverberate, Roar,
Practitioner
Elana Mann
Date
Oct 17 2013

Resonate, Reverberate, Roar (Re-Re-Roar) is a growing archive of original sounds that express an experimental, independent, and socially progressive spirit. The sounds on Re-Re-Roar include field recordings, interviews, songs, speeches, experimental music, and more. Re-Re-Roar is a site for research and activ[ist] listening, with the purpose of distributing sounds of resistance to eager ears around the globe.

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Real Cost of Prisons
Practitioner
Real Cost of Prisons
Date
Jan 1 2000

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration.

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Doll Protest / Mini Protest
Practitioner
Lyudmila Alexandrova
Date
Jan 7 2012

This demonstration was in response to a new law (as of June, 2012) imposing fines for unauthorized protest of up to $20,000 for organizers and $10,000 for participants. After activists were turned down for a more traditional protest, Lyudmila Alexandrova and others set up small dolls, teddy bears, and figurines with demonstration slogans. Two mini protests took place in January 7 and January 14, 2012.

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Pandas on Tour
Practitioner
Paulo Grangeon
Date
Jul 1 2008

Grangeon's long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600 papier-mâché pandas. That's approximately one for as many as there are left in the world (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1596).

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What Kind of Man are You?
Practitioner
aleXsandro Palombo
Date
Mar 7 2014

In a dark nod to International Women's Day, artist aleXsandro Palombo has turned to the world of cartoon characters to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence. His series, "No Violence Against Women," transforms iconic animated women into victims of abuse, resulting in a familiar yet ultimately disturbing collection of illustrations.

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The Sugar Sphinx
Practitioner
Kara Walker
Date
May 1 2014

Over the past twenty-five years or so, ever since her spectacular New York début at the Drawing Center, in 1994, the now forty-four-year-old artist Kara Walker’s visual production—sculptures, cutouts, drawings, films—has been diaristic in tone.

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Department of Invitations
Practitioner
Ebba Akerman
Date
Jul 31 2014

Filling Stomachs to Open Minds on Immigration
In Sweden, Dinners Melt Cultural Barriers

STOCKHOLM — Last year, when Ebba Akerman, 31, was teaching Swedish to immigrants in the suburbs of this city, she ran into one of her students on the train and asked him whether he enjoyed living in her country.

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In Drones We Trust
Practitioner
Joseph DeLappe
Date
Nov 13 2014

In Drones We Trust, 2014 - Joseph DeLappe
Crowd Sourced, Participatory Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention

FOR FULL PROJECT DOCUMENTATION VISIT: http://indroneswetrust.tumblr.com/

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German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves
Practitioner
EXIT
Date
Nov 15 2014

The tiny German town of Wunsiedel has for decades seen crowds of neo-Nazis pass through its streets in annual demonstrations, but this year something was different.

While the extremists received a frigid welcome in past years, they were met with colorful banners, cheering locals and a booth of free bananas during their latest march on Nov. 15.

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The Bread Tank
Practitioner
World Future Council
Date
Jun 19 2014

At Rio+20 we present a bread tank with a garden inside to underline the realistic possibility of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty by redirecting military spending.

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Art+Feminsim Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Practitioner
Art+Feminism
Date
Feb 1 2014

On February 1st, 2014, approximately 600 participants, convened in 31 locations in six countries to edit Wikipedia articles on women and the arts. During this day, at least 101 new articles were created, and at least 90 articles improved.

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