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2016
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Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

Help Staten Island Save Mount Manresa (Art Intervention and Rallies)
Practitioner:
Save Mount Manresa
Date:
Dec 15 2013
Ongoing efforts to Save Mount Manresa:
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Practitioner:
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Date:
Apr 9 1979
"The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® is a leading-edge Order of queer nuns. Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment.
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Student activists, leaders size up state of campus activism in the Trump era
Practitioner:
The Eagle
Date:
Mar 28 2018
Just 15 months after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, AU has seen a dramatic increase in activism, according to student leaders interviewed by The Eagle about the state of activism on campus. However, other students say the level of political polarization on campus has eclipsed those activism efforts.
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Sotheby’s Teamsters and OWS protest The Scream auction
Practitioner:
Occupy
Date:
May 7 2012
Amidst a crowd of protesters and oversized signs, Pat Walsh shouted, “What’s disgusting? Union busting?” At a glance, Walsh, a woman with well-kept gray hair and an open smile, didn’t strike one as the usual angry protester. But that night, Walsh was fighting. “My husband, John, has been locked out from Sotheby’s,” says Walsh. “He’s been a worker for 30 years. I’m here to fight for him.” Currently,
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GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Practitioner:
GULF, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction
Date:
Feb 22 2014
Last night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours.
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NYC Marathoners Organize to Aid Staten Island
Practitioner:
Dr. Jordan D. Metzl, Runners
Date:
Nov 4 2012
"Once the New York City Marathon was cancelled, a group of New York City marathon runners decided to turn their personal loss of not being able to compete into a much bigger win by organizing volunteers to help the storm-ravaged communities on Staten Island, the race’s starting point. “Let’s put these legs and healthy spirit to good use,” says the group’s Facebook page.
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Anti-Racist Demonstration
Practitioner:
Unheard: University of Oklahoma Alliance for Black Students
Date:
Mar 9 2015
Unheard is an alliance of Black students organized for change within campus administration and atmosphere. Students gathered on the University of Oklahoma campus Monday morning to protest the racist behavior of Sigma Alpha Epsilon members over the weekend. Photos posted online show dozens of students gathered, joined by university president David Boren, who condemned the students in SAE.
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Colorful Revolution
Practitioner:
Anna Krukulj & Irena Stzeijovska
Date:
Apr 1 2016
A wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and religious leaders. The leaked conversations appeared to expose widespread corruption among ministers, including alleged vote-rigging and a murder cover-up.
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The Peace Piece
Practitioner:
Adelle Lutz
Date:
Apr 1 2003
The Peace Piece was conceived by artist Adelle Lutz as a reaction to the declaration of the American war with Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Lutz combined her talents as a costume designer and artist to create a project that would remind the Americna public that the majority of war victims suffering in Iraq were women and children.
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Chilean Kiss-In
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jul 6 2011
Chile Students Stage Kissing Protest Ricardo de la Pena, UPI.com
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#Not1More Campaign
Practitioner:
#Not1More
Date:
Mar 24 2014
Seven undocumented immigrants working with the #Not1More campaign, chained themselves and blocked the entrance to the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama for several hours today. Etowah has long been considered one of the worst immigrant detention centers in the country. In a phone call recorded by Detention Watch Network, one detainee named Oscar Quintero describes the facility as “a concentration camp for immigrants:”
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Camp Frack
Practitioner:
Frack Off
Date:
Jun 13 2011
Camp Frack was a protest festival in Lancashire, UK, an area near industrial energy plants that produce shale gas. Around 150 activists from both Frack Off and Campaign against Climate Control (CCC) set up the festival, featuring food, music and conversation on environmentalism.
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Flour Bluff students expand education through activism
Practitioner:
Flour Bluff High School students
Date:
Apr 30 2012
CORPUS CHRISTI — Many Flour Bluff ISD students have developed an extracurricular activity that takes their education to the streets, to social media and toward a path of change: activism.Much of the students' passion stems from the April 1 suicide of 16-year-old Ted "Teddy" Molina, a former Flour Bluff Independent School District student.Ted's family has attributed his death to bullying.
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ASCO Collective
Practitioner:
ASCO Collective
Date:
Apr 17 1970
Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it might encompass.
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Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest
Practitioner:
Pussy Riot
Date:
Aug 22 2012
DEPENDING on your taste, punk died in 1979, or maybe 1994, or whenever studded leather cuffs became a must-have mall-girl accessory. Now, suddenly, punk has been resurrected, stitched together anew in the form of the well-accessorized Russian women who call themselves Pussy Riot.
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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Practitioner:
Ricardo Dominguez
Date:
Dec 12 2007
Students at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened.
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Inflatable Cobblestones
Practitioner:
toolsforaction.net
Date:
Jan 1 2013
First: inflatables uplift a grim protest situation into a playful event. There is something magic about what inflatables induce in people. Their enormous size combined with the weightlessness and softness makes them irresistibly attractive and dreamlike. People have a natural tendency to touch the inflatable sculpture and to join the game of throwing inflatables in the air—changing a march into a poetic, joyful and participatory event.
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Kanye West Storms the VMAs Stage During Taylor Swift's Speech
Practitioner:
Kanye West
Date:
Sep 13 2009
Leave it to Kanye West to produce one of the most infamous moments in VMAs history before the 2009 show was even an hour old.
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Rise, Resist & Unite...V-Day & The Vagina Monolouges
Practitioner:
V-Day Sedona/ Organizations Across the Globe
Date:
Feb 17 2018
Back after a five year hiatus, V-Day Sedona joins with hundreds of other productions across the globe in celebrating V-Day’s 20th anniversary with an act of artistic activism. For its 20th anniversary, V-Day is calling on activists around the world to Rise, Resist and Unite.
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LEGOVC
Practitioner:
iancooketal
Date:
Feb 22 2018
LEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, 'pantomime villain' Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is slashed.
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Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker Meeting
Practitioner:
Benjamin Lay
Date:
Sep 1 1738
It was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings. He also carried a hollowed-out book with a secret compartment, into which he had tucked a tied-off animal bladder filled with bright red pokeberry juice.
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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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Samuel Ruiz and the Zapatistas
Practitioner:
Samuel Ruíz, Zapatistas
Date:
Dec 1 1994
Samuel Ruiz and The Zapatistas The Catholic Church has traditionally been linked to the right and the conservative politics, especially in Latin America. However, there are a few examples in which this apparently conceptual bond has been challenged.
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Farmification
Practitioner:
Lisa Ma
Date:
Jun 14 2011
Farmification is a part-time farming scheme to help migrant workers gain control over their futures in relation to their past values. Before, these workers were farmers, producing food for themselves and for others, but now having migrated into factories these producers became consumers. Who’s making all the food now? Over years, Farmification as a quiet meme migrated in making statements indirectly, without a voice of conflict from the doer.
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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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