Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals

These projects all have short-term goals. Ideally each contributes to a campaign with a clear, well-defined path to a goal. Ideally, there are targets—people, institutions—that the project (and/or campaign) pressures and which, if pressured, can help achieve the goal.
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.)

K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas Police
Practitioner:
K-Pop Fans
Date:
Jun 5 2020

If you’ve spent a decent amount of time on Twitter, you’re probably familiar with the concept of K-pop fancams. The short clips of live performances, primarily by South Korean acts, often dominate replies on the app and are hated by many. This week, however, the social phenomenon has taken over in a different way: to fight for the rights of Black Lives Matter protesters seeking justice after the death of George Floyd.

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.

Butterflies for Bealtaine
Practitioner:
Amelia Caulfield, Sinead Cullen & Margaret Organ
Date:
May 1 2020

*We would like to thank everyone who who participated in a very successful first Butterflies for Bealtaine*

For the month of May, we invited all ages to creatively respond to the theme of The Butterfly and to share a change they wish for on a personal, community or global level.

In Ireland as in many parts of the world we have been in a quarantine situation because of the global pandemic. This environment informed our project.

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