Projects with Clear Long-Term Goals

These projects have long-term goals for change. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
Jun 22 2020

Three months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest.

Minneapolis police station torched amid George Floyd protest
Practitioner:
activists
Date:
May 28 2020

(See also: approval rates for Black Lives Matter following the start of the protests over the murder of George Floyd by police.)

The Scheherazade Project
Practitioner:
The Scheherazade Project
Date:
Jun 9 2020

The Scheherazade Project is a Performing Arts Non-profit based in Washington DC. Co-founders Lisa Leibow and Julia Alvarez were inspired by Scheherazade in the Arab classic 1001 Nights and created The Scheherazade Project.
For more information, our website is https://thescheherazadeproject.org/The-Scheherazade-Project

Humor to overthrow Mubarak
Practitioner:
Egyptian revolutionaries
Date:
Feb 23 2011

from "Laugh, O Revolution: Humor in the Egyptian Uprising" by Anna Louie Sussman, in 2011.

Revolutions can be messy. They can be tragic. As long as the Internet is working, they can be tweeted. And, as Egyptians demonstrated during their 18 days of protest, they can also be funny.

Share your water story
Practitioner:
Jacqueline Moreira, Tricia Hogan, Rachel Walsh, John Farragher, Veronica Wagner and Keelin Tobin
Date:
May 1 2020

Share Your Water Story invites every global citizen to participate in a creative conversation around the different ways in which water impacts our lives. The project encourages people to contribute original expression of any kind via online platforms on the global justice issue of water and sanitation.

The Wheelbarrow
Practitioner:
The Wheelbarrow Collective
Date:
May 1 2020

Empathy may be the cornerstone of any Global Justice movement, but how do we cultivate the conditions for empathy to thrive?
The wheelbarrow symbolises something universally useful, practical and pleasingly straightforward. A space to deliver things in an efficient and direct manner - no packaging and completely people powered.

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