Projects tagged "Animal Rights"

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Practitioner:
Alex Bojour
Date:
Oct 2 2012
On October 2nd, three animal rights activists shocked the world with an extraordinarily bold act, organized by Alex Bojour. They all were branded alive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4q1pU957c) as a symbolic act of identification with the animals that are branded and used by the human species, conveying the message of animal equality.
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Interview with an Undercover Investigator
Practitioner:
Green is the New Red
Date:
Apr 11 2012
By Will Potter  Multiple states have considered “Ag Gag” bills that criminalize investigators who document animal welfare abuses on factory farms. Iowa and Utah are the latest to approve them. These bills, lobbied for by Big Ag groups, are part of a long line of attempts to blame activists for exposing abuses, rather than hold corporations accountable.
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Greenpeace asks Nestle to Have a Break
Practitioner:
Greenpeace USA
Date:
Mar 17 2010
Greenpeace released a video to spread the word that Nestle, the maker of Kit Kat, was using palm oil purchased from companies that are destroying the Indonesian rainforest and pushing orangutans towards extinction. The video, which features a guy opening a Kit Kat at work, pulling out an orangutan finger and taking a bite, shocked hundreds of thousands of viewers. The Greenpeace campaign against Nestle was a success.
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Protesters crash through Marineland gates
Practitioner:
Marineland Animal Defence
Date:
Oct 7 2012
More than 800 rallied to have the theme park shut down The Canadian Press Dozens of protesters crashed through the gates of an Ontario theme park on Sunday railing against its treatment of marine life. The protesters say they managed to shut down a dolphin show at Marineland in Niagara Falls.
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Fanged Wilds and Women
Practitioner:
VC Bestor
Date:
Jan 1 2015
grrrRoar! Ecology is sexier when you focus on women and fanged beasts. Fashions in leopard print help us make that connection globally and online. Polluters at least pause at the reminder that nature isn't dead yet and in fact stirs the same passion as the woman you just met who's saying something about "Fanged Wilds"!
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Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection Law
Practitioner:
The Animal Party
Date:
Sep 30 2012
Thousands of animal rights activists marched against a draft law on Sunday that would make changes to Turkey's Animal Protection Law No. 5199, seeking to introduce practices currently used in other countries such as collecting stray animals from the streets and euthanizing members of the “excess” population.
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Fur Free
Practitioner:
International Anti-Fur Coalition
Date:
Feb 5 2010
Anti-Fur advocates have been protesting through demonstrations for decades, throwing red paint on women wearing fur coats, passing out leaflets and sporting the slogan “Fur Is Dead” on t-shirts and stickers and spray-painting it on buildings in cities throughout the globe.
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Hong Kong Moves to Ban All Ivory Sales, Closing a Loophole
Practitioner:
local people in Hong Kong
Date:
Jan 31 2018
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s legislature voted on Wednesday to ban all ivory sales by 2021, closing what activists called a major loophole in the global effort to end the trade and protect elephants from poaching.
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José Bové dismantles a McDonald's
Practitioner:
Andreja Kulunčić, Ahmet Ögüt
Date:
Aug 12 1999
José Bové, a sheep farmer/activist in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, is a modern day Astérix, a mythical Gaul who drubbed foreign intruders centuries ago. In Bové's case, the intruder was McDonald's, the American fast food chain (referred to in a satirical way by Bové and his supporters as "McDo").
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Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building
Practitioner:
Oceanic Preservation Society
Date:
Jul 31 2015
In July 2015, the Empire State Building's famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected onto the building.
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The Convergence
Practitioner:
Emily Rose Laochua
Date:
Apr 27 2016
The Convergence graphic novel series is a science fiction dystopia. It tells the story of a dying earth and the dark covenant that the last civilization acceded to for survival. The social contract is disrupted when a prophecy is triggered which can heal the dying earth. Book 1 was released this past June with 7 more episodic books coming monthly in 2016.
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Bon Appetit
Practitioner:
KD Key Detail
Date:
Sep 3 2013
Creative Graffiti at the Urban Culture Festival in Germany By Loredana Loy A street art project by by KD Key Detail from Minsk, Belarus--created and featured at the IBUg 2013 Urban Culture Festival in Zwickau, Germany. The project is entitled "Bon Appetit." Images speak louder than words. Links and photos below.
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"Save the Bees" Street Art
Practitioner:
Louis Masai
Date:
Apr 23 2015
Colony collapse disorder is a colossal issue – and artist Louis Masai wants you take notice. His street art project “Save the Bees” aims to catch your attention by covering the walls of London with bees. Bees are extremely important to agriculture as they pollinate plants - yet entire colonies are disappearing without a solid reasons (there are theories, mostly about pesticide ingredients).
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International demonstrations on Animal Rights Day
Practitioner:
Animal Equality
Date:
Dec 10 2010
Showcasing death to defend life El Pais, Madrid Activists protested with the organization Animal Equality (Igualdad Animal) in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Burgos, and Toledo on December 10, commemorating the international Animal Rights Day. 
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We Animals
Practitioner:
Jo-Anne McArthur
Date:
May 11 2012
We Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its premise, We Animals aims to break down the barriers that humans have built which allow us to treat nonhuman animals as objects and not as beings with moral significance.
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Empty the Cages
Practitioner:
Dan Witz, PETA
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Fifty-six-year-old Dan Witz — who originally hails from Chicago but lives in Brooklyn — has been producing street art in New York since the seventies. And not just any street art. Wondrous works that trick the eye and often elude passersby altogether. Oh, but when one realizes what he or she is seeing, it’s pure revelation.
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Bikini-clad Peta 'bunny' braves minus 10 degrees cold to protest fur trade in South Korea
Practitioner:
Ashley Fruno, reporters
Date:
Feb 6 2018
An animal rights activist sporting only a white bikini, bunny ears and tail has been spotted protesting against fur in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which is hosting the Winter Olympics 2018. Ashley Fruno discussed the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (Peta) stance on fur in front of the Olympic rings at the Alpensia Resort.
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Thus.
Practitioner:
nilankur
Date:
Mar 1 2014
This is an attempt to foster critical thinking and create social capital. www.thuscritique.wordpress.com
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Join The Pack
Practitioner:
Emily Kelley
Date:
Jan 16 2016
Grey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the U.S.'s Northern Rockies as early as 1995. The wolves were (and continue to be) placed in areas dense with wilderness and potential prey.
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Naked Barcelona Animal Rights Activists Covered in Blood to be "Human Meat" Protesting
Practitioner:
Barcelona Animal Rights Activists
Date:
May 23 2016
Naked animal rights activists have covered themselves in blood and wrapped themselves in giant meat packaging in the middle of Barcelona.
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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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Weekly protest at the slaughterhouse
Practitioner:
Toronto Pig Save
Date:
May 10 2012
By Catherine Porter I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes' Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph the pigs en route to their death at nearby Quality Meat Packers.
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5 Ways PETA Asia Became an Animal Rights Groundbreaker in China
Practitioner:
PETA Asia
Date:
Dec 2 2016
The world is shocked by China’s dog meat festival and by videos showing that animals are eaten alive in restaurants in Guangdong. But in that country of 1.3 billon people, a massive shift in ideology is happening. Our friends at PETA Asia are helping millions of people see that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.
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What If We Switch Positions With Whales?
Practitioner:
Rémi Gaillard
Date:
Sep 30 2015
What would it be like if we switched positions with whales in captivity? Nothing like this – but at least prankster Rémi Gaillard had some fun trying to recreate the scenario.
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Animal Man Comics
Practitioner:
Jeff Lemire
Date:
Jun 14 2012
By Mariann Sullivan
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