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.
Melting Panthers
Practitioner:
Bob Partington, CLEO Institute
Date:
Sep 27 2020

American artist Bob Partington created a wax sculpture of a Florida panther and her cub to display at a nonprofit zoo in Tampa, Florida this September.

When it debuted, the sculpture looked like nothing special. But as the wax began to melt under the heat of the sun, the bodies of the endangered species started to disintegrate. Within a couple days, the mother panther’s melting body revealed a simple message: “More heat, less wildlife.”

"Waste" Sculpture
Practitioner:
Zhou Zhenfeng
Date:
May 15 2016

In 2016, Zhou Zhenfeng, who was a student at a college in Hebei at the time, discovered that there were a lot of waste tires in the streets and alleys. Zhou Zhenfeng learned that tires are made of infusible or refractory polymer elastic materials. It takes hundreds of years for these materials to decompose in the soil to the extent that they do not affect the growth of plants.

Even in Solitary Confinement Kevin "Rashid" Johnson is Educating, Organizing, and Mobilizing
Practitioner:
Kevin
Date:
Jun 1 1993

Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is a revolutionary, writer, social activist and founding member and Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, and member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. At 18 years old, in 1990, he was convicted of murder, which he has consistently challenged on the grounds of misidentification.

Seaspiracy
Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi
Date:
Mar 25 2021

"Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds.

Beautiful Women's Rights Walk
Practitioner:
Meili Xiao
Date:
Sep 15 2012

In 2012, the 24-year-old feminist activist Xiao Meili launched the "Beautiful Women's Rights Walk" anti-sexual assault activity. She set off from Beijing in mid-September and passed through Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other cities along the way to reach the destination Guangzhou. She took 114 days and reaches more than 2500 kilometers in this tour.

"blood-stained wedding dress, wounded bride"
Practitioner:
Maizi Li, Jing Xiong
Date:
Feb 14 2012

On February 14, 2012, three female college student volunteers wore blood-stained wedding dresses and appeared as "wounded brides" in Beijing Qianmen Pedestrian Street.

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