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Finding Black Owned Businesses
Practitioner:
Jay-Z/Sean Combs
Date:
Mar 3 2018
An inspired story of artists who have made millions engaging their communities of using their artistic influence to create change for others! **** Over the last few years or so, Diddy and Jay-Z have continually found themselves near the very top of Forbes' wealthiest acts in hip-hop list. Now, it looks like the two are combining their immense wealth to help Black people across the U.S.
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Sarah Sophie Flicker: Why the Arts Are Essential to a Strong Resistance Movement
Practitioner:
Sarah Sophie Flicker
Date:
Aug 31 2017
Sarah Sophie Flicker, one of the many organizers of the women's march speaks about the importance of Arts and Resistance ------ [excerpt]
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Korean women are fighting back against deepfakes
Practitioner:
Korean Gender Activist
Date:
Aug 22 2024
A few dozen women, wearing white masks, held up signs protesting against pornographic deepfakes. On the afternoon of Friday, August 30, several South Korean feminist collectives demonstrated in Seoul to fight these sex crimes that are flooding the country.
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PAWA 254
Practitioner:
Boniface Mwangi
Date:
Feb 26 2013
Kenyan-based photographer Boniface Mwangi has captured his country's political and civic turmoil since the controversial presidential election in 2007. The violence and disorder he witnesses daily motivated him to take action, setting up a creative hub for activism called PAWA 254.
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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Practitioner:
Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Theater Zoukak, Beirut
Date:
May 4 2016
From the two shores of the Mediterranean, Zoukak theatre company and cultural association (Beirut) and Center for cultural decontamination CZKD (Belgrade) collaborates by sharing their experiences and knowledge in working within sociopolitical contexts in the field of art and culture.
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Trump Braille Art
Practitioner:
Clarke Reynolds
Date:
Jan 20 2025
A blind artist has unveiled an image of Donald Trump in Braille dots, which spell out his conversation with Secret Service agents following the assassination attempt in July 2024. Seconds after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, agents tried to move Trump to safety, but he demanded to retrieve his shoes and then paused to make a fist pump gesture.
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GreeenMarket
Practitioner:
GrowNYC
Date:
Jan 2 2000
GrowNYC is a nonprofit that promotes community values through environmental missions. One of GrowNYC's programs is the GreenMarkets, which are fresh produce markets that are set up in various neighborhoods in the city, each one unique to the area. These markets focus on bringing local farmers into the community as well as promoting awareness of seasonal produce in order to limit the environmental damage of importing goods.
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Trump 'played' by K-pop fans and TikTok users who disrupted Tulsa rally
Practitioner:
K-Pop Fans
Date:
Jun 21 2000
K-pop fans and users of TikTok claimed tickets to Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally in Tulsa then did not use them, as part of a coordinated effort which helped to leave hundreds of seats empty in a 19,000-capacity venue.
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Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activist
Practitioner:
Miguel Hernández
Date:
Dec 31 1931
Miguel Hernández was a spanish shepherd, poet and playwright that dedicated most of his works to dignify the poor peasants of the rural areas of Spain.
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Day of Disruption
Practitioner:
Israeli Artists
Date:
Mar 16 2023
Text by Jerusalem Post Staff -
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The body as a living artwork: Olivier de Sagazan’s Transfiguration
Practitioner:
Olivier de Sagazan
Date:
Jan 1 2024
As the audience enter, Olivier de Sagazan is pacing the stage, deep in thought. A slight, barefooted figure dressed in suit and tie, he circles in and out the shadows, head bowed, sometimes muttering to himself. As the audience settle and hush, his footsteps gradually become more audible (the floor is mic-ed) and begin to pound like a calling drum.
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Adidas by Stella McCartney’s SS21 collection calls on us to protect our oceans
Practitioner:
Stella McCartney w/ Adidas, Monika Mogi, Netti Hurley
Date:
Apr 1 2021
When we think about the protectors of our oceans, our mind is instantly drawn to the image of the lifeguard. Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff in bright red swimsuits, their enviable bodies on show, as they run along the coastline. As a result our concept of the role has an elitism about it.
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Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram's Ban
Practitioner:
Claudia Chanhoi
Date:
Jan 1 2016
It all began during Claudia's final art project at the London College of Communication, where she delved into the issue of "sexual objectification of women," a topic close to her heart as she navigated her womanhood.
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You’d Better Watch Your Step In Madrid
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Feb 20 2015
Luzinterruptus turns their art activism towards the overabundance of dog doo littering the city’s streets. The studio inflated 500 poop-scoopin' plastic bags and placed a lightbulb inside each one. Installation lasted nine hours.
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Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Practitioner:
MacArthur Foundation and Muzzy Lane
Date:
May 6 2010
Taken from Boston Globe Article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ 
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Miss Rockaway Armada
Practitioner:
Miss Rockaway Armada
Date:
Jun 1 2007
The Miss Rockaway Armada is both a collection of individuals and an idea. At its most basic, the idea is this: we’re going to float down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans on rafts that we built ourselves. The crew can be called many things: artists, musicians, builders, travelers, organizers, dreamers. Ask one of the people who help build and move these crafts for the
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Björk to Launch Environmental Sound Installation at Paris’ Pompidou Centre
Practitioner:
Björk and Aleph
Date:
Nov 20 2024
Björk and the French artist Aleph have collaborated on an immersive, AI sound piece that recreates extinct animal calls, set to run at the Pompidou Centre, in Paris, from November 20 until December 9. It will play as visitors travel on escalators in the art museum, as part of its “Biodiversity: Which culture for which future?” forum.
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The Laundromat Project
Practitioner:
Te Laundromat Project
Date:
Apr 15 2013
WASH CLOTHES :: MAKE ART :: BUILD COMMUNITY The Laundromat Project brings engaging, community-responsive art and artists into local coinops across Greater New York City. By helping turn imaginations into creative fuel, we empower communities of color living on modest incomes to dream new visions for their own neighborhoods.
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FILIPINO HIP-HOP ACTIVISTS TAKE A STAND IN OAKLAND/TAKE BACK OUR EDUCATION
Practitioner:
various activists
Date:
Dec 23 2014
There is a large Filipino community in the Bay Area that organizes and fights for better workers’ rights and educating youth of color. There are groups within this community that address these issues through hip-hop. Kiwi Illafonte, 40, is a Bay Area political rapper who talks about social issues in his music. “Social change is at the center of my universe,” Illafonte said.
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Monuments to Illegal Garbage
Practitioner:
CAC
Date:
Mar 15 2019
This urban action was consisted from mapping of over 50 locations of illegal garbage disposing sights and signing of 16 places across Macedonia where people dispose large amounts of heavy garbage and constructive waste.
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