Projects tagged "protest"

Book Bloc
Practitioner:
students
Date:
Nov 1 2010
The book bloc constitutes a line of demonstrators holding cardboard-polyurethane-and-foam shields that are made to resemble giant book covers. This tactic tends to be used in actions that oppose neoliberal reform of education and libraries, especially in the form of austerity measures.
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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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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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QUINCEAÑERA PROTEST: Texas teens protest against SB 4 at Capitol
Practitioner:
Texas Teens
Date:
Jul 17 2017
Highlights: A handful of teens donned puffy quinceañera dresses to protest against the “sanctuary cities” ban. The teens gave paper flowers to lawmakers who voted against SB 4 and flyers to those who voted in favor. Texas teens took part in a quinceañera-themed protest on the south steps of the Capitol to voice their opposition to Senate Bill 4, the so-called sanctuary cities ban.
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#NOSFALTAN43
Practitioner:
Lavinia Raccanello
Date:
Dec 11 2014
On December 2014 I've been artist in residence at MANY MINI RESIDENCY a short-term residency program organized by Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer and hosted by GYB BYG in Mexico City. During my 12 hour residency I’ve worked on the case of the 43 students from Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa who went missing while in the custody of Iguala’s police force in September 2014.
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Ukraine's Femen: Topless protests 'help feminist cause'
Practitioner:
FEMEN
Date:
Jan 1 2008
FEMEN is a feminist Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008.
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Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?
Practitioner:
Pete Seeger
Date:
Apr 1 2012
Now 92 years old, the legendary folk singer recalls his pioneering days touring college campuses and discusses his favorite songs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Scream: 21st Century Edition
Practitioner:
Jim Costanzo
Date:
May 1 2007
"The Scream: 21st Century Edition" was created by New York-based artist Jim Costanzo in response to the Iraq War. The piece is directly inspired by Edward Munch's painting, "The Scream." Costanzo expresses anger and frustration at the illegal American war and the attack on our civil liberties.
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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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#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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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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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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Web sites go dark in SOPA protest against plans to ban online piracy
Practitioner:
Wikimedia, Google, Reddit, Craigslist, etc
Date:
Jan 18 2013
By Hayley Tsukayama, Published: January 18, 2012 Web users woke up this morning to find that, as promised, several prominent Web sites had gone dark or put up messages asking visitors to contact their members of Congress to vote against two online piracy measures: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.
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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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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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SlutWalk
Practitioner:
SlutWalk Co-Founders Sonya Barnett and Heather Jarvis
Date:
Apr 3 2011
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance.
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March on Monsanto
Practitioner:
March On Monsanto
Date:
Oct 12 2013
Join the Worldwide protests against Monsanto on October 12th. Poster art by Anthony Freda and "Z"
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Street Theater and Arrests Mark Fiesty Cooper Union Anti-Tuition Protest
Practitioner:
Cooper Union Students
Date:
Apr 26 2012
From ARTINFOBy Benjamin Sutton"Where are the cops?" So one Cooper Union student asked another as they crossed the plaza behind the Manhattan university's Foundation Building during yesterday afternoon's protest
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