Projects tagged "Politics & Government"

Smithsonian Collection of "Occupy Wall Street" Posters on View at Wesleyan
Practitioner:
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center
Date:
Apr 5 2013
After collecting street art and memorabilia from "Occupy Wall Street" since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan's Davison Art Center. The posters will make up an exhibition entitled “Artists Take Action: Protest Posters Today,” which is on display in the University's gallery from April 5 to May 26.
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens Ten Year Anniversary 2007-2017
Practitioner:
CG CORD/Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development
Date:
Mar 25 2017
Did you know? It is the Ten Year Anniversary of the "Democracy Wall" in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, NY 2007-2017. What was the Democracy Wall?
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A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March
Practitioner:
The people of Moscow
Date:
Mar 7 2014
There were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on Sunday.
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Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Practitioner:
domestic workers
Date:
May 5 2012
There are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing their clothes, cooking their food and looking after their children. Yet these workers are not included under Lebanon’s labor laws — they are not entitled to
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LezFem's Diary
Practitioner:
LezFem
Date:
May 17 2014
The current cultural and political context in Macedonia marginalizes lesbians and women in general, and the dominant political party forces the traditional role of the woman, where she is a mother, a housewife, and of course, heterosexual. Furthermore, the major TV stations are flooded with Turkish soap operas, where traditional values are the leitmotif of the show.
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American Prison Perpestives
Practitioner:
Christoph Gielen
Date:
Apr 11 2010
With American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions.
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Sluts Across America
Practitioner:
Roopa Vasudevan
Date:
May 11 2012
In 2012, Sandra Fluke stood up in front of Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to advocate for the mandatory inclusion of birth control coverage in health insurance. Republicans on the committee refused to allow her to speak.
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Practitioner:
MTL
Date:
Sep 16 2013
From creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL's clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine's geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into "how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere" according to philosopher Michael Hardt.
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Music's influential role on Egypt's presidential campaign
Practitioner:
Egyptians
Date:
May 30 2012
When the revolution began in Cairo's Tahrir Square, music played a big role in galvanizing young people and giving them a voice. So it's not surprising that music continues to play an important role in Egyptian politics as the presidential candidates began their campaigns.
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Stop Frisk Tourist T- Shirts
Practitioner:
Aaron Gach and Center for Tactical Magic
Date:
Aug 28 2012
At Souvenir Stands, Selling Tourists on Ending Stop-and-Search By COREY KILGANNON New York Times, City Blog, August 27, 2012 Last week, a 37-year-old artist from Oakland, Calif., named Aaron Gach joined the crowds of tourists swarming the sidewalk souvenir stands set up around the perimeter of Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
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The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Practitioner:
The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Date:
Jun 6 2019
Disabled people gathered to protest at the site where a memorial to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 is being built. We are keen to have a memorial to Peterloo, but we want one we can be proud of, rather than the one under construction, which will be inaccessible to many disabled people.
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Mueller Report Graphic Novel
Practitioner:
Barbara Slate
Date:
May 1 2019
The Mueller Report, important as it is, has not been read by most Americans. While perhaps written in more accessible language than other federal reports, there have been efforts to bring it into other formats: audio books, performances, and The Mueller Report presented in graphic novel form by Barbara Slate.
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Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Practitioner:
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Date:
Mar 7 2013
Jews For Palestinian Right of Return January 1, 2013 “For Palestinians, the right to return home and the right to live in dignity and equality in their own land are not any less important than the right to live free of military occupation.” –Prof. Saree Makdisi[1] For more than a century, Zionists have sought to construct a “Jewish state” through forced removal of the indigenous Palestinian people.
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The Panama Papers
Practitioner:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Date:
Apr 3 2016
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
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A Piano-Playing Ukraine Protester Serenades Riot Police
Practitioner:
Ukrainian Protestor
Date:
Dec 9 2013
By: Patrick Randall KIEV — Several thousand pro-European Ukrainians demonstrated in the capital for President Viktor Yanukovych's resignation over the weekend. One man even played the piano in front of Ukranian riot police on Kiev’s Independence Square.
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Colectivo Sublevarte Retrospective
Practitioner:
Colective Sublevarte
Date:
Nov 10 2012
Sublevarte, a Collective of Mexican artists, was born out of the ENAP (National School of Fine Arts) of UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), during the student strike of 1999-2000, the longest student strike in history.
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Practitioner:
fnnch
Date:
Jan 29 2018
Local artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America--appeared all over SoMa late Sunday night, from the Embarcadero to Fifth Street.
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ACTIVISTS POUR CONCRETE OVER 'ANTI-HOMELESS' SPIKES
Practitioner:
London Black Revolutionaries
Date:
Jun 13 2014
The war against London's "anti-homeless" spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro on Regent Street, before vowing to strike again.
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ipaidabribe.com
Practitioner:
Janaagraha
Date:
Jun 5 2007
ipaidabribe.com is an online tool that allows the users to report when they pay bribes, are asked to pay and refuse, and when they find an honest officer. They have a well designed site with apps for mobile phones, and although it started in India it has now grown and you can select multiple countries on different continents.
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Meet Red Army Statue: Superman and hero friends
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jun 17 2011
This article was published on the guardian website: -Russia not amused at Red Army statue re-invented as Superman and friends- Clenched teeth in Moscow over 1950s war memorial in Sofia given makeover by spray-painting street artist By Tom Parfitt in Moscow The Guardian, Wednesday 22 June 2011
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Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in Cuba
Practitioner:
Tania Bruguera
Date:
Jan 23 2015
MEXICO CITY — Of the half-dozen pieces that form Tania Bruguera’s series “Tatlin’s Whisper,” the one that the Cuban government silenced may have resounded most.
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Game of Floods
Practitioner:
Marin County Government
Date:
Apr 26 2017
Marin County’s “Game of Floods” teaches citizens how to make tough decisions for the future.
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#MuslimVDay
Practitioner:
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed
Date:
Feb 14 2018
“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day cards.
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Dubai Man Aims to Enable Filmmaking Skills Among West Bank Youngsters
Practitioner:
Handheld Stories
Date:
Jul 4 2011
Youngsters on the West Bank will have the chance to benefit creatively from a new project this summer. From the beginning of July, Handheld Stories plans to teach filmmaking skills to groups between eight and 16 years old from youth centres and refugee camps in East Jerusalem, Nablus and Hebron, while also giving them video equipment, computers and software.
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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Practitioner:
Jim Carrey
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — "Dumb and Dumber," "The Mask," "Liar Liar," "Ace Ventura," just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back the comic goofiness for more serious turns in films like "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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