Projects tagged "Activism"

Rock The Reactors
Practitioner:
Environmental Library Fund
Date:
Mar 7 2013
Founded in 2006, Rock The Reactors enlists the art and fashion community in support of organizations working to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in NY. Shut Down Indian Point with Fashion!
La Bolsa o La Vida
Practitioner:
School for Creative Activism Participants
Date:
Dec 18 2014
On Thursday 18th December 2014, dozens of leading international health activists staged a colorful protest in front of Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain - highlighting the high prices of Gilead's new hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi. The medicine costs approximately 40,000 euros in Spain, and $84,000 in the United States, leading to the exclusion from treatment of the majority of patients.
Activism and Fiction (TV documentary)
Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin, Nuria Campabadal, Enmedio
Date:
Jan 6 2012
On 6 January 2012, Metrópolis (TVE 2) broadcast "Activismo y Ficción", a report directed by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Núria Campabadal. It looks at a series of creative projects that lie somewhere between fiction and social activism.
Weekly protest at the slaughterhouse
Practitioner:
Toronto Pig Save
Date:
May 10 2012
By Catherine Porter I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes' Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph the pigs en route to their death at nearby Quality Meat Packers.
smArt Action
Practitioner:
Puerto Rican and New York based Students and artists
Date:
May 14 2012
Smart Action 
The Colors Mountain
Practitioner:
The Colors Mountain
Date:
May 5 2015
The Colors Mountain is a collective intervention project that uses a virtual space dedicated to the observation and investigation of alleged ecological crimes , with the goal of using the concept of "reasonable doubt", not only for possible court acquittal but also cause a formal investigation that could lead to a court complaint.
ALV Rooftop protest draws international coverage
Practitioner:
Animal Liberation Victoria
Date:
May 4 2011
QUESTION: Year after year, decade after decade, you alert the legal authorities to cruelty violations and suffering animals in peril, yet nothing ever happens. You know for a fact there are thousands of screaming and suffering hens inside a factory farm and you know the authorities will once again turn a blind eye, so what do you do? 


Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection Law
Practitioner:
The Animal Party
Date:
Sep 30 2012
Thousands of animal rights activists marched against a draft law on Sunday that would make changes to Turkey's Animal Protection Law No. 5199, seeking to introduce practices currently used in other countries such as collecting stray animals from the streets and euthanizing members of the “excess” population.
Julius Eastman: Gay Guerilla
Practitioner:
Julius Eastman
Date:
Jun 4 1980
Julius Eastman was a Black and Queer avant garde, minimalist composer and performer from the 1960s-1980s. He used his platform to advocate for the rights and livelihoods of Black and queer people through his unique musical aesthetic and the controversial naming of his pieces, including "Gay Guerrilla," "Evil N-word" and "Crazy N-Word"
POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!
Practitioner:
POC Zine Project
Date:
Jan 28 2013
This piece is about multiple layered “creative activism”. There is art, activism, and community building. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a zine is a “noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.”
Nameless Vigilantes
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Apr 17 2003
Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.
The Trials of Spring
Practitioner:
Fork Films
Date:
Jun 7 2015
The Trials of Spring is a major documentary event that chronicles the stories of nine women who played central roles in the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. It includes a feature-length documentary, six short films, articles by award-winning journalists, and a robust social media conversation about women and their unwavering quest for social justice and freedom.
Liberation art from the Church
Practitioner:
Sister Corita Kent
Date:
Jan 1 1969
From Black Power to Migrants’ Power BY Robin Cembalest POSTED 01/22/13 As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today
Hundreds of anti-bull fighting protestors stage a dramatic rally in Mexico City
Practitioner:
Anima Naturalis
Date:
Feb 6 2012
By Jill Reilly, The Daily Mail, UK

Getting Your Sh*t Together/GYSTInk
Practitioner:
Karen Atkinson and the GYST Team
Date:
Mar 7 2013
"Making Life Better For Artists" (on ongoing project) http://www.gyst-ink.com
Interview with an Undercover Investigator
Practitioner:
Green is the New Red
Date:
Apr 11 2012
By Will Potter  Multiple states have considered “Ag Gag” bills that criminalize investigators who document animal welfare abuses on factory farms. Iowa and Utah are the latest to approve them. These bills, lobbied for by Big Ag groups, are part of a long line of attempts to blame activists for exposing abuses, rather than hold corporations accountable.
Global Earth Exchange
Practitioner:
Organized by Radical Joy for Hard Times, enacted by volunteers around the world
Date:
Jun 22 2013
On Saturday, June 22, a group of friends will meet at one of the more than 4,000 natural gas wells that have been drilled by hydrofracking in Pennsylvania. Instead of picket signs, however, they'll be carrying a picnic basket. For an event they're calling "Picnic on the Gas," they'll strive to show that it is possible to live with creativity and even joy in gas drilling country.
The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia
Practitioner:
Citizens of The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedoninia
Date:
Mar 22 2014
The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia Devised, constructed and carried out all within 24 hours, the Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia opened its borders for 2 hours on Saturday 22nd March, 2014.
The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Practitioner:
The Grace Period Blog: 7 Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Nov 21 2013
“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a country where personal and national debt is high and jobs are few. In this environment, will our creative spirits be resilient?
175 HECTARS
Practitioner:
community
Date:
Jan 27 2013
On 27th January 2013, the participatory project titled 175 hectares has run through the streets of the city of Trento (Italy). All the community has traced a line of white chalk that measures 6.3 km and the area included was 175 hectares: the exact surface area of the extermination camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II, Poland).
Occu-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 21 2011
Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.
Typing...SYRIA
Practitioner:
Joi
Date:
Apr 1 2015
(SUBSCRIBE AT http://typingsyria.com/) Typing…SYRIA is a one month socio-artistic performance piece where any individual can subscribe to witness a WhatsApp conversation between two Syrian characters play out in real time.
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.
THE BAREFOOT ARTIST
Practitioner:
Lily Yeh
Date:
Feb 5 2013
Born in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art activism with communities from North Philadelphia to Rwanda and China is the subject of a new documentary film, The Barefoot Artist, now in post-production and ready for viewing later this year.
Civil disobedience in support of animals to progress social change
Practitioner:
The University of Melbourne
Date:
May 10 2013
By Dr. S. O'Sullivan and C. McCausland

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