Projects tagged "protest"

Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid
Practitioner:
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid
Date:
May 15 2011
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid The Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid (Solphonic Orchestra of Madrid) is a self-organized orchestra that was formed in the context of the social movement 15M and that has gained popularity for playing classical music in demonstrations and acts of social protest.
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Discongreso
Practitioner:
Enmedio
Date:
Sep 25 2012
"Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work.
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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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Dumping Tea into the Sea - the Boston Tea Party
Practitioner:
The Boston Tea Party
Date:
Dec 16 1773
Forget Sarah Palin. And take a history class and learn from the daring early settlers!
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Puppets Against AIDS
Practitioner:
Puppets Against AIDS, Gary Friedman
Date:
Dec 1 1988
"Puppets Against Aids was launched by Gary Friedman on 1st December 1988 in time for 'World Aids Day' in Johannesburg, South Africa. During 1987, Friedman had been studying with Muppet master, Jim Henson, in Charleville-Mézières, France. Henson provided the initial financial contribution to launch the African Research and Educational Puppetry Programme 'Puppets Against Aids'.
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UC BERKELEY STUDENT DEMONSTRATION PROBLEMATIZES SYRIAN WAR: Questioning the Obama Binary
Practitioner:
a group of concerned students at UC Berkeley
Date:
Sep 9 2013
Berkeley, CA 9/9/13
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#FUEELESTADO
Practitioner:
Lavinia Raccanello
Date:
Dec 5 2014
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi #FUEELESTADO is a project about the lack of social justice and the gross human rights violations in Mexico. It examines the conflict between state power and personal autonomy and responsibility, a conflict that, in Mexico, involves missing persons and unidentified bodies and that can’t be silenced anymore.
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1,001 chairs for Aiweiwei in Taipei
Practitioner:
Taiwanese artists and activists
Date:
Jun 4 2011
A large chair installation work featuring the Chinese name of detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei was set up in Taipei Saturday --the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen SquareMassacre -- to call for Ai's release. Bei Ling, an artist from China who has been barred from enteringhis home country since 2000, used 1,001 empty chairs to piece together the three characters of Ai's name in Liberty Square at 6: 04p.m.
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Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women's rights
Practitioner:
Turkish men
Date:
Feb 21 2015
How did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media?
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"Who is afraid of Aiweiwei?" stencil graffiti spread in Hong Kong
Practitioner:
activists
Date:
Apr 3 2011
Free Ai Weiwei street art campaign is a "guerilla methods" of political street art protest against the PRC government's secret detention of world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei since April 3, 2011, organized by Hong Kong artists and art supporters, calling for the immediate release of the artist.
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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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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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Clippers fans protest Donald Sterling
Practitioner:
Clipper's fans, Lakers fans
Date:
Apr 29 2014
"By yesterday afternoon, news of Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime NBA ban had already settled in. But there was still plenty of anger among the protesters who gathered outside the Staples Center Tuesday.
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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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Gangnam Style Used in Protests in China
Practitioner:
Chinese construction workers in Wuhan, and people of Henan Provence
Date:
Jan 13 2013
In early January, constructions workers in Wuhan, China staged a Gangnam Style protest in front of their employer's building. Using the Gangnam Style dance, the men sought to bring media attention to their mounting unpaid wages.
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"HALT"
Practitioner:
Jamar Roberts
Date:
Jan 24 2018
In Halt, a new solo piece premiered at NYU Gallatin, dancer and choreographer Jamar Roberts examined the language of the body in protest. The work focuses on what it means for human beings-the committed individual and the organized collective- to be equally the subjects of progressive change and the targets of unjust corporeal punishment.
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Retail workers at Amazon and Whole Foods coordinate sick-out to protest Covid-19 conditions
Practitioner:
Hundreds of workers at Amazon warehouses, Whole Foods grocery stores, Target retail stores, and shoppers at Instacart and Shipt
Date:
May 1 2020
Hundreds of workers at Amazon warehouses, Whole Foods grocery stores, Target retail stores, and shoppers at Instacart and Shipt called out sick on Friday as part of a coordinated one-day strike across the US in protest of working conditions and inadequate safety protections during the coronavirus pandemic. The 1 May walkout began after Amazon ended its unlimited unpaid time off policy for workers at the end of April.
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Cop d' ull
Practitioner:
Enmedio, TAF!
Date:
May 1 2002
This project was born a few days after a demonstrator lost an eye after being hit by a rubber bullet shot from police guns in Barcelona. Unfortunately, it was not the first time. "Cop d' ull" means a "a blow to the eye" and also "at a glance”, which is a perfect description of this project.
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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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Occu-bot and Management-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 26 2011
Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.
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Environmental activism gains a foothold in China
Practitioner:
Li Wei, locals in Qidong
Date:
Jul 28 2012
Li Wei, 18 (not her real name), doesn't seem like a dissident. She is more focused on her accounting studies, her friends on the social networks and chatting with her sister. Nevertheless, she took part in a demonstration last month in front of the Chinese Communist party offices that degenerated into violent clashes with police.
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org - a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Practitioner:
Hicbd
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? Howitcouldbedifferent.org was founded for these purposes - to enable people to easily see, share, and suggest ideas in different categories.
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Practitioner:
Monument Removal Brigade
Date:
Oct 26 2017
Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning.
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A Call That Makes Change Approachable
Practitioner:
The Story of Stuff Project
Date:
Jul 11 2012
The Story of Stuff Project launches a new video. What is instructional, educational, and inspirational is a call for all the people in America to exercise their citizenship rather than their right to consume. Here is what Annie Leonard (co-founder and spokes person for the project) has to say about this new film:
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All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism
Practitioner:
American Friends Service Committee
Date:
Dec 15 2014
Call to Artists All of us or None: Reponses and Resistance to Militarism--http://afsc.org/poster From Ferguson to Gaza, we can see the way that militarism has a direct impact on the lives of all of us.
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