Projects tagged "Health"

You are not in control of your own health anymore. I am.
Practitioner:
Free Food
Date:
Apr 25 2018
You are not in control of your own health anymore. I am. (An open letter from a graphic designer — or some other clickbait inducing title)
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Platforms Fight Back Against Coronavirus Misinformation
Practitioner:
Facebook, TikTok, WHO
Date:
Mar 5 2020
On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that the platform is working to remove coronavirus conspiracy theories and elevate information from credible organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and UNICEF.
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One People Flash Mob
Practitioner:
dancewithoutborders
Date:
Dec 13 2011
On 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at OccupySF & Oakland to dance the world awake. 
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Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms
Practitioner:
German Doctors
Date:
Apr 27 2020
A group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt at risk from coronavirus and claimed their calls for help over several months had gone unheeded.
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Anti-Abortion ‘Magical Birth Canal’ Videos
Practitioner:
Laura Klassen, CHOICE42
Date:
Jun 2 2018
This Anti-Abortion Influencer Is Using ‘Magical Birth Canal’ Videos to Supercharge the Movement Laura Klassen is using props, satire, and a pink wig to pioneer a young and edgy approach to anti-abortion messaging in Canada. By Valerie Kipnis and Elizabeth Landers May 4 2020, 12:45pm
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Smoking Kid
Practitioner:
Thai Health Promotion Foundation
Date:
Aug 21 2012
The Thai Health Promotion Foundation (THPF) is a non-profit organization that has been continuously holding above-the-line campaigns encouraging people to quit smoking. However, the number of people quitting smoking has not diminished as much as they want.
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Art AIDS America traveling exhibition
Practitioner:
Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka
Date:
Jun 1 2015
If you visit the Art AIDS America exhibition expecting to see activist slogans and memorial pieces along with some art-world superstars, you won’t be disappointed—Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and the “Silence = Death” slogan are present and accounted for—but you might also walk through the show scratching your head in confusion.
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Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over Time
Practitioner:
Talent Ad Agency
Date:
May 24 2013
To show the harmful effects of cocaine on a drug addict, Brazilian advertising agency Talent created ‘living’ poster ads that are consumed by live mealworms over time. Printed on dough, the ads initially show the faces of drug addicts. However, as time passes, the mealworms slowly eat away at the posters, causing holes to form on the printed faces—highlighting the harmful effects of the drug.
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Fall in Love With Nature
Practitioner:
Nature's Cupids
Date:
Apr 28 2018
We set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action "Fall in Love With Nature" painted upon it. On the table were resource lists for the public to take away with links to books and websites on the topic of forest bathing and connecting with nature.
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GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Practitioner:
PAUL=FELIX MONTEZ
Date:
Aug 15 2015
Imagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone is pointed at one of the plaques an entire timeline biographical history of that peacemaker becomes available.
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Threads of Resistance
Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance
Date:
Jul 15 2017
A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the nearly 560 pieces submitted for jurying, are shown on our website.
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The "marriage effect"
Practitioner:
Amnesty International
Date:
Mar 20 2014
Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The "marriage effect" clause sees convicted rapists given a five-year suspended sentence if they marry their victims and stipulates that the perpetrator should stay married to the victim for at least five years.
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Artists mark Trump's inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Practitioner:
The Federation, a volunteer-run arts organization spearheaded by artist Laurie Anderson and producers Tanya Selvaratnam and Laura Michalchyshyn
Date:
Jan 19 2018
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women's March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation's history.
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Operation Paydirt
Practitioner:
Mel Chin
Date:
Jan 22 2007
"Operation Paydirt is a multidisciplinary, artist-driven project advancing a solution to the devastating problem of lead (Pb) contaminated soil that puts thousands of children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems. The goals of the project are to raise awareness of the issues of lead and to create a model for making cities lead-safe across the United States.
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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Practitioner:
Eileen Reynolds, Mara Mills, Shafeka Hashash, Patricia Flores
Date:
Jan 29 2015
The Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller.
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“We Have Our Ways,” a short film directed by Portland filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone shows ‘activism is a form of love
Practitioner:
Filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone
Date:
Feb 25 2018
Dawn Jones Redstone’s short film about reproductive justice features women of color leading the resistance. The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and severely restricted. Streets are filled with protesters clutching signs that say “Water is a human right” and chanting “Whose streets? Our streets.”
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Keith Haring's AIDS Activism
Practitioner:
Keith Haring
Date:
Jan 1 1980
Keith Haring was an American artist and activist in 1980s New York, whose artwork raised awareness on social issues at the time. One the main awareness campaigns Haring participated on was AIDS awareness and activism.
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Abortion rights and Body Vulnerability
Practitioner:
Maria Maria Acha Kutscher
Date:
Jul 10 2019
The rise in feminism and feminist advocacy has changed history forever in terms of how women are viewed and treated in society. Though great progress has been made, women are still fighting for their rights even today. Abortion and body vulnerability are just two issues that are still being confronted and fought for in the public view.
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Nurses protest at White House over lack of protective gear
Practitioner:
NNU Union
Date:
Apr 21 2020
At least a dozen nurses on Tuesday protested outside the White House demanding the administration take action to acquire more personal protective equipment (PPE), reading aloud the names of 50 nurses who have died of coronavirus. "We are here because our colleagues are dying. I think that right now people think of us as heroes, but we're feeling like martyrs," one nurse told NBC News.
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ItCouldHappenToAnyone.com
Practitioner:
Agitpop
Date:
Oct 9 2009
The Battle for Healthcare Agitpop joined Dawn Smith and MoveOn.org in taking on Dawn’s insurer to get the care she needs and reform our broken health care system. They traveled from Atlanta to Philidelphia to share her story and bring the voice of thousands of American’s to Cigna’s doorstep.
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MTA Posters
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
May 1 2013
Come across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne non-toxic test” in which the NYPD will disperse “harmless, colorless gas” around the five boroughs, and an at-risk nuclear reactor that’s just 28 miles from NYC.
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Most Likely Safe
Practitioner:
Yes Lab, Food and Water Watch
Date:
Apr 29 2011
In April, 2011, Food and Water Watch partnered with Yes Lab to raise questions regarding drinking water around New York City. Yes Lab, an organization that collaborates with activist groups, aims to create successful media-related creative actions that help raise awareness regarding pertinent causes and create desirable action, often by staging interventions for the existing status quo by imitation and alteration.
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Lost and Sound
Practitioner:
Lindsey Dryden
Date:
Dec 8 2013
1 in 7 of us will experience some kind of deafness in our lifetime. So what would happen to the music you love, if your hearing was lost?
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Cancer Baby's Kimo Kawa House
Practitioner:
Lu Yang
Date:
Apr 12 2014
Lu Yang attempts to bring the negative notion of Cancer cell into a “Kimo Kawa” object of love and/or pain and hopes to open a dialogue that brings awareness to the acceptance and tolerance of living with cancer cells.
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In music video, seminarian at Belen Jesuit Prep uses rap to tackle coronavirus, global concerns
Practitioner:
Brother Michael Martinez
Date:
Apr 6 2020
WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A seminarian and faculty member at a South Florida school is taking a creative approach to engaging with students about challenging issues during this time of uncertainty, including the coronavirus pandemic. He made a rap video.
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