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.
Change the Ref Announces Penalty Flag for Change
Practitioner:
Change The Ref
Date:
Feb 12 2023

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- While the United States is getting prepared once again for the Big Game on February 12th, the event with the highest audience nationwide, few are aware that last year there were more than 45,000 gun violence victims, and just during the first month of 2023, there were more than 39 massive shootings in the country.

The 1975, Greta Thunberg’s Call to Action
Practitioner:
The 1975
Date:
May 22 2020

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has teamed up with UK band The 1975 to record a song in she calls for mass civil disobedience to force action on greenhouse gas emissions.

In the track, titled “The 1975,” Thunberg recites an essay over ambient music, urging listeners to join a popular rebellion against climate change.

“Everything needs to change. And it has to start today,” she says in the song, released July 24.

Celebrating the history of black creativity
Practitioner:
Lubaina Himid
Date:
Jan 1 1991

"A Tanzanian-born, Preston-based artist, curator and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid aims to 'fill in the gaps of history', giving representation to marginalised histories and to what was previously invisible or silenced. Significantly, Himid's art reinserts black narratives into the forefront of cultural practice and conversation.

When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Practitioner:
Margaret Wertheim, Christine Wertheim
Date:
Oct 16 2010

The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking fusion of science, conservation, mathematics, and art, is on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. By engaging local communities to crochet coral reefs, the exhibition celebrates the reefs' beautiful diversity and speaks to the urgent need to protect these vanishing ecosystems.

Mustang
Practitioner:
CG Cinéma
Date:
Nov 20 2015

Breaking the Silence: The Importance of Mustang
Eylem Atakav on how Mustang offers an important challenge to perceptions of gender and female sexuality in Turkey.

As Deniz Gamze Ergüven's acclaimed debut film Mustang screens at the ICA, Eylem Atakav discusses gender and female sexuality in Turkey, looking at the importance of film in making women's experiences visible and changing perceptions.

Unity, Democracy and Courage
Practitioner:
Medu Art Ensemble
Date:
Aug 7 1983

One of the most pressing questions before us in the United States now is how to resolve the tension between our personal visions and needs, on the one hand, and the demands of being a member of a community, on the other.

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