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Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art project
Practitioner:
United Poultry Concerns
Date:
Feb 29 2012

February 29, 2012
The Kansas City Star
By Jessica Blakeborough

The chickens have been granted a stay of execution.

City codes prevent Amber Hansen, a Lawrence artist, from displaying and then butchering chickens for an art project, a city official says.

And that has animal activists rejoicing.

Mexican Activists Protest Drug War Through Public Art
Practitioner:
Mexican Activists
Date:
Mar 6 2012

Huff Post Latino Politics
The Huffington Post

While drug-related deaths continue to escalate as the Mexican drug war wages on, Mexican youth have resorted to peaceful and artistic forms of protest against the violence.

Last Sunday, activists met on Mexico City's Zocalo Square in an effort to demonstrate against the war. They covered the public space with chalk outlines of human bodies.

Sudanese Activist Artist Breaks Down Borders
Practitioner:
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed
Date:
Mar 29 2012


VOA NEWS  March 29, 2012  By Nico Colombant  

WASHINGTON--A Sudanese artist from the restive Blue Nile region is using art and activism to promote the plight of people caught between borders and conflict.

In an audio montage of memories from refugees, the sounds of gunfire and explosions mix with crying babies. Narrator Michelle Orecchio describes how to reverse war's grip on so much of humanity.

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