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Tunisian Human Rights Activists Take to the Streets with Art
Practitioner
Fanni Raghman Anni
Date
Feb 1 2015

Post revolution Tunisia is all too familiar with protest – usually through demonstrations - but one group of activists are using the power of street art to get their message across. Calling themselves “Fanni Raghman Anni” (Arabic for “My Art in Spite of Myself”), the group simply scouts the streets of Tunisia bringing theater and drama to random passers-by.

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Nihilist subway performances
Practitioner
Kalan Sherrard
Date
Apr 30 2014

The latest episode in Nicolas Heller's documentary web series "No Your City," as published by Gothamist, features the arguably pretentious, inarguably earnest street performer Kalan Sherrard, who was recently arrested during his peaceful anarchist puppet show. Functioning as a video manifesto for his peculiar ways, the clip is at least compelling.

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"I'm Here: A Chilean initiative that makes visible street dogs
Practitioner
Felipe Carrasco and Violeta Caro
Date
Dec 23 2012

This is one of the noblest urban interventions I've seen lately. Two girls who go to a subway station in Santiago, Chile with lots of colorful balloons with helium. In the balloons write messages like "touch me", "hold me", "adopt me", "love me" or "feed me".

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Abused Goddesses
Practitioner
Save The Children India, Taproot India
Date
Feb 1 2010

The bruised and beaten faces of these beautiful Hindu goddesses have an important point to make -- that despite the reverence for women that is a part of Hinduism, India's most populous religion, the country has become extremely unsafe for its female citizens.

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Guerrilla Girls: Oscar Billboard
Practitioner
Guerrilla Girls
Date
Mar 9 2002

THE ANATOMICALLY CORRECT OSCAR...HE'S STILL WHITE, STILL MALE, JUST LIKE THE GUYS WHO WIN!

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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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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Practitioner
Consortium of Pub-going, Loose, and Forward Women
Date
Jan 25 2009

In late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they found immoral, claiming that the girls were disrespecting traditional Indian values. Video footage of the event spread across Youtube in India, sparking outrage among many at the attack on innocent women.

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Bogota smiles: canned Sardines
Practitioner
Daniel Sanchez
Date
May 4 2013

A Colombian college student created this idea to improve Bogotas citizens experience when using the public transportation. According to one scientific study, the worst problem Bogota citizens had to deal within the public space was public transportation; this problem represented the principal cause of high percentages of stress and anger among citizens.

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Miss Landmine
Practitioner
Morten Traavik
Date
Apr 2 2008

A beauty contest for landmine victims challenges normal concepts of beauty. The search for beauty takes many forms. The traditional beauty pageant might be thought to be one of the less acceptable, concentrating as it does on conventional ideas of female perfection. Miss Landmine is a challenge to normal concepts of beauty. It is a beauty pageant held in Angola, a country ravaged by war and its aftermath, for women who have lost limbs from landmines.

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Carry that Weight
Practitioner
Emma Sulkowicz
Date
Sep 21 2014

In a Mattress, A Lever for Art and Political Protest
by Roberta Smith

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The Realist
Practitioner
Asaf Hanuka
Date
Feb 27 2015

Asaf Hanuka is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His illustrations span the themes of technology, revolution, war, Judaism, and depictions of family life and the individual in modern day society.

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Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Practitioner
Conflict Kitchen
Date
Jun 5 2010

"A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the counter. More precisely, the kubideh, a dish made of grilled ground meat in freshly baked barbari bread with onion, mint, and basil.

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