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.
“Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL Mascots
Practitioner:
No More Native Mascots
Date:
Feb 12 2023

PHOENIX — As Super Bowl LVII was getting underway in Glendale, Arizona, on February 12, artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) was protesting racist mascots in the NFL by painting a mural-style portrait of Geronimo with the words “Don’t Call Me Chief” for a community event at Grassrootz, a Black- and worker-owned bookstore near downtown Phoenix.

BLM Mural in SLC
Practitioner:
Unnamed Artists, Justmedia Utah, Red Berets SLC
Date:
Jun 5 2020

Mural artists add color and flavor on 800 South in the Granary District of downtown Salt Lake City. There’s an old-fashioned bar on the side of a locally-owned brewery, and a Southern Utah landscape on another building. Down the street, on the south corner of 800 South and 300 West, there’s a new mural that’s far more potent.

Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Practitioner:
Ellie Harrison
Date:
Nov 13 2022
Bus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration wi
"I Still Believe in Our City" Asian Americans Standing Out for Themselves
Practitioner:
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Nov 3 2020

Asian Americans standing up for themselves, the Black Lives Matter movement, and their home: New York City
In 2020, as COVID-19 flared through New York City and NYC hospitals saw a spike of nearly 200,000 patients, Asian and Pacific Islanders (APIs) faced an added threat: blame, racism, and xenophobia.

Trans Murder Monitoring
Practitioner:
Trans Day of Remembrance Campaign
Date:
Oct 12 2015

As part of an international workshop (10-11 October 2015) with the Center for Artistic Activism, 17 trans activists and artists from 13 European countries developed a creative campaign to mark some of the spaces in Berlin which have symbolic significance for trans people.

Protests continue against Netanyahu's government legal reform plans in Israel
Practitioner:
Israeli Demonstrators
Date:
Feb 5 2023

TEL AVIV

Thousands of people took to the streets in Israeli cities Saturday for a fifth straight week to protest the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning proposed judicial reforms.

Demonstrators from non-governmental organizations, lawyers, and technology sectors staged the protests/

Police closed roads leading to squares in Tel Aviv during the day and took security measures in the surrounding area.

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