Projects tagged "Portland OR"

Viande de Brousse: a Bushmeat Food-Cart Project
Practitioner:
Roger Peet and Ryan Burns
Date:
May 5 2011
This is a project about bushmeat: the hunting of wild meat in the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, for our purposes specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo. This bushmeat food-cart serves up information and interpretations of the
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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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Reverse pay-per-view!
Practitioner:
Farm USA
Date:
May 10 2012
Since summer 2011, FARM’s activists have been paying people $1 each to watch a 4-minute video depicting the inherent cruelties of raising animals for food. This tactic, known as “pay-per-view,” has led 80% of participants to reduce meat consumption, sparing tens of thousands of animals from abuse and slaughter.
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