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2016
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Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

Thousands rally in Paris to protest slaying of Holocaust survivor
Practitioner:
public
Date:
Mar 28 2018
Thousands of people marched through Paris on Wednesday evening to protest the killing of a Holocaust survivor in her home over the weekend, in what investigators are treating as an anti-Semitic crime. Mireille Knoll, 85, was stabbed 11 times and her apartment was set on fire in the attack, French authorities said. Two men in their 20s have been arrested, one a neighbor of Knoll's and the other a homeless man, a judicial source told CNN.
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the Fundred Project
Practitioner:
Mel Chin
Date:
Jan 1 2008
The Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations of $100 bills, symbolizing the value of human lives and the need for a lead-free future.
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Rituals Adjacent to Capitalism
Practitioner:
Liat Berdugo, Leora Fridman
Date:
Jan 1 2016
The project provides somatic rituals to solve the problems of creative makers, offering specific somatic instructions for how to deal with breaks in (or lack of) creativity. Rituals available as a live, interactive performance and as limited-edition chapbooks, and broaden an understanding of creative “results,” “ends and means,” and the idea of a muse/magic as relates to creative labour.
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Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Practitioner:
Led by Donkeys
Date:
Feb 24 2023
Yesterday morning (23 February), Led by Donkeys staged a protest in front of the Russian embassy in London, creating a large-scale public artwork in solidarity with Ukraine. The group poured litres of yellow and blue paint on each side of the carriageway on Bayswater Road. Activists then used brushes to create a Ukrainian flag that would stretch the length of the embassy.
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Apr 19 0020
This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is a poetically driven spiritual prayer for freedom of expression and freedom after expression.
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Jan 16 0020
MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth is torn naked . War is ravaging the beauty of African diamond fields ,We are now Wretched Vagabonds . Warlords are frying peace in oil springs of the Gulf.
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Russia: Greenpeace Polar Bear Protesters Arrested Outside Gazprom Office In Moscow
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Sep 5 2012
MOSCOW (AP) — Put your paws in the air. Moscow police have arrested 10 environmental activists, including four dressed in polar bear costumes, who were protesting outside the main office of Gazprom, the Russian oil and natural gas giant.
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No Pride in Incarceration!
Practitioner:
QLatinx, Familia TQML
Date:
Jun 24 2021
❗❗PRIDE REQUIRES ACTION❗❗ Celebrating Pride? What better way to uplift LGBTQ people’s lives than by joining our campaign to #EndTransDetention? Honor the legacy of Pride by taking action until all of us are free. Sign here & share with 3 friends: https://www.endtransdetentions.org/petition
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From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil & Injustice
Practitioner:
Nope To Arms Collective
Date:
Aug 2 2018
After artists learned that London's Design Museum was connected to Leonardo, a large arms dealing company, and hosted an event for them, many of the artists featured in their Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-2018 asked the museum for their work to be removed. After receiving no response, one third of the show's artists removed their work from the show.
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An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.
Practitioner:
JR, Alice Rohrwacher
Date:
Nov 1 2019
Omelia Contadina was born out of the concern of JR and director Alice Rohrwacher for the difficulties encountered by many small farmers and inhabitants of the Alfina plateau, in Italy.
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Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion week
Practitioner:
Ayesha Tan Jones
Date:
Sep 22 2019
If fashion is a reflection of the times it is little wonder that the current round of shows have often felt discombobulating. Gucci’s show on Sunday night was particularly surreal, opening with a series of models being propelled along a conveyor belt catwalk, staring bleakly ahead, wearing a high fashion take on straitjackets.
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Chinese gather and lay flowers despite heavy security as former Premier Li Keqiang is laid to rest
Practitioner:
Chinese citizen
Date:
Nov 2 2023
HEFEI, China (AP) — Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people gathered Thursday near a state funeral home in Beijing as China’s former second-ranking leader, Li Keqiang, was put to rest, while a steady stream of mourners showed their respects at the ex-premier’s childhood home in central China. Li, who was China’s top economic official for a decade, died last Friday of a heart attack at age 68.
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The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in Spain
Practitioner:
Feminist Organizations
Date:
Apr 15 2014
Even though Spain is constitutionally defined as a non-confessional nation, the Catholic Church still holds great power. For example, the Catholic Church is exempt from paying certain taxes, and can reclaim certain buildings as their property. This often creates frictions and conflicts with the activist groups and organizations that would prefer a more secular political environment.
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NYU Students' Response to COVID-19 Housing Closure
Practitioner:
NYU Student Body/NYU's Inter-Residential Hall Council
Date:
Mar 16 2020
This was a protest posted on Change.org in response to NYU's forced eviction deadline on students living in on-campus housing. The following was the information posted on the site: We, the undergraduate student body of New York University, strongly urge NYU to rescind the call for students to evacuate NYU residence halls before March 22nd.
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Rally of White Power Clowns Drowned Out By Bunch of Awesome Actual Clowns
Practitioner:
Protesters
Date:
Nov 13 2012
Apparently the human colostomy bags known as the neo-Nazis and the KKK held an anti-immigration rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday, but their demonstration was totally taken over by hordes of super-happy clowns.
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Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Practitioner:
Led by Donkeys
Date:
Feb 23 2023
Wheelbarrows full of washable paint were poured along the Kensington road to mark a year since Russia launched its invasion. Four people have been arrested for the protest.
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March to Close Slaughterhouses in France
Practitioner:
A coalition of animal advocacy groups
Date:
Jun 2 2012
By Judy Molland If you thought that France was a nation of meat-eaters, think again.
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Police dogs and firehoses
Practitioner:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Date:
May 3 1963
Police dogs and firehoses is, for most of the world, the image of Birmingham made by Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police Department during the Birmingham Campaign of the African American Civil Rights Movement.
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Taco Bell Boycott
Practitioner:
Coalition of Imolakee Workers
Date:
Jan 1 2001
For years, workers in Florida’s tomato fields have endured poverty wages and terrible working conditions. In 1993, a small, community-based organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) formed to demand an end to these unfair labor practices.
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Women's March Taiwan 2018
Practitioner:
Women's March Taiwan
Date:
Mar 8 2018
Women's March Taiwan 2018
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The masked artist protesters in a polluted city of China
Practitioner:
Artists in Chengdu
Date:
Nov 11 2016
In the south-western city of Chengdu, by all accounts a city on the edge coping with heavy pollution but also with authorities scrambling to put a lid on simmering discontent. That night police detained a number of artists who managed to stage a silent demonstration, while wearing face masks.
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Shine MSD
Practitioner:
Sawyer Garrity, Andrea Peña, Brittani Kagan, students and faculty of MSD
Date:
May 4 2018
Shine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to create this music video to honor the victims and the school.
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40 Days for Life
Practitioner:
40 Days for Life
Date:
Sep 26 2012
There have now been ten coordinated 40 Days for Life campaigns since 2007, mobilizing people of faith and conscience in 440 cities across the United States and Canada, plus cities in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belize, Denmark, England, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, Puerto Rico and Spain.During these unified efforts, participants witnessed countless blessings from God:
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Drawing For Peace
Practitioner:
Aaron Hughes
Date:
Oct 1 2006
Aaron Hughes, an artist-activist and Iraq War veteran walked into the middle of a busy intersection in Champaign, Il. where he was then going to college, and propped up a signboard that read: “I am an Iraq War Veteran. I am guilty. I am alone. I am drawing for peace.”
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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Jan 25 2013
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC's oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe chained gas pumps together Friday at the station near where the World Economic Forum was being held and hung a banner on the roof reading "Arctic Oil - Too Risky."
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