Skip to main content

Choose Gallery:

  • Issue
  • Medium
  • Region
  • How it works
Log in/Register
To prevent automated spam submissions leave this field empty.

Search form

change

Activates (people)
Amplifies (issue or campaign)
Strengthens (community)
Provides (a useful service)
Shifts (culture)
Sustains (change)
Does nothing (at all)
Other

region

Africa
Australia & Oceania
East Asia
Europe
Latin America & Caribbean
Middle East
North Africa
North America
South Asia
Worldwide
Online

medium

Clothing & Costumes
Demonstration & Protest
Digital & Technology
Film, Video & Photo
Installation
Music & Sound
Organization
Performance
Print & Design
Visual Arts
Writing & Manifestos
Mixed Media
Other

issue

Advertising & Consumerism
Animal Rights
Arts & Culture
Cities
Civil Liberties
Corporate Power
Community
Disability
Domestic Violence
Education
Environment
Health
Immigration
LGBTQIA
Food & Water
Housing & Land
Labor
Media
Natural Resources & Energy
Police & Prisons
Politics & Government
Religion
Revolution
Science & Technology
Sex & Gender
Race & Ethnicity
Transportation
Violence & War
Wealth & Poverty
Multi-issue
2016
CaroTimm

Effective actions and how they work Favorite 

This is a short list of some actions widely agreed to be effective, with a few annotations:

* How exactly they work movements - e.g. by making something visible, by prefiguring, by publicizing an idea or general POV, etc. Projects can have several different modes of working.

* Just how effective they are. This is usually very subjective, and a common answer is "unknown." Sometimes, though, we pretty much know something worked very well....

  • 1016 reads

Gallery Projects

Police dogs and firehoses
Practitioner
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Date
May 3 1963

Police dogs and firehoses is, for most of the world, the image of Birmingham made by Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police Department during the Birmingham Campaign of the African American Civil Rights Movement.

Read more
Earthrise
Practitioner
Bill Anders
Date
Dec 24 1968

What he captured became one of the most influential images in history. A driving force of the environmental movement, the picture, which became known as Earthrise, showed the world as a singular, fragile, oasis.

Read more
Actipedia

Creative tactics that help bring about change. Browse around or visit our favorite actions.

Follow Us On