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May 2 2012

"Jenna has designed an efficient, sub-irrigated system for growing energy-packed plants (microgreens) in small, urban spaces. Her aim: to provide healthy greens to extraordinary people with ordinary incomes. As an urban agricultural design project, she envisions a way to grow food in an anthropogenic landscape for all strata of citizens, but as an art project, she hopes to facilitate conversations about

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Cats Against Cat Calling

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Hollaback!

Date:

Mar 20 2012

"Cats Against Cat Calling" began online as a movement under same slogan, powered through Hollaback! Hollaback! is an activist collective seeking to end street harassment. Working through a network of activists in various locations, Hollaback! encourages individuals to stand up for themselves against uncomfortable interactions in public.

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‘I, Too, Am Harvard’: Black students show they belong

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Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence

Date:

Mar 5 2014

hat’s it like to be black at Harvard? Students at the Ivy League university are offering a picture of their experiences there with a play and a photo campaign called “I, Too, Am Harvard,” a nod to the famous Langston Hughes poem.

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Toy Soldiers

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Caracas Art Students

Date:

Apr 12 2014

Students of the Experimental Art University dress as plastic soldiers in a protest at a metro station in Caracas, Venezuela

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Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activism

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Global Citizen Tickets Initiative

Date:

May 1 2013

By Steve Knopper

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Female students in Guangzhou protest topless for gender equality

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Female students from the Guangdong University of Technology

Date:

Apr 21 2014

Female students from the Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou called for equal job opportunities and for people to "pay attention to the value of women" while protesting on the school's campus, shirtless and covered in body paint. The photos, taken by ogling passersby, have been circulating on Weibo and naturally netizens stand divided on whether the semi-naked protests were empowering or counterproductive...

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And Counting...

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Wafaa Bilal

Date:

Mar 9 2010

Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the deaths of Iraqis like his brother are largely invisible to the American public.

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Hedonistic pictures of Barcelona’s queer underworld

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Leo Adef

Date:

Apr 15 2021

Topless queer men light spliffs on the beach. A trans man injects testosterone on the toilet. Drag queens nonchalantly scroll through their phones and smoke. These are just some of the images that make up the new book from Leo Adef. Titled WARP, it’s comprised of photographs captured across four years spent in Barcelona's queer underworld

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Fanism - Tallahassee Native John Gertomo's Flock

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Anonymous Users

Date:

Jun 1 2012

On a now defunct MMO, users rallied together under a fake religion to protest religious groups proselytizing on the messageboards.

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Rhythm 0

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Marina Abramović

Date:

Jun 1 1974

This is Marina Abramović's first attempt to interact with the audience on the spot, allowing the audience to become part of her work. Guns, bullets, kitchen knives, whips and other dangerous items), the audience can use any item to do whatever they want to her. Due to the unpredictable danger of the work, Marina promised to take full responsibility for the performance of the performance art.

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Public Dissentiment

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Derek Curry

Date:

Jan 1 2016

The project consists of an online tool that helps protestors negatively impact the price of a publicly traded stock by using the same sentiment analysis tools used by many stock trading algorithms. In the contemporary stock markets, high-frequency trading bots that continuously buy and sell stocks have replaced human market makers. These bots provide the market with liquidity by being ready to take the buy or sell end of a stock trade most of the time.

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Art and the Arab Awakening

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Faten Rouissi

Date:

Aug 2 2012

Art and the Arab Awakening By Nama Khalil, August 2, 2012 Revolutionary street art in Tunisia.

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Dharavi Biennale

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Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action (SNEHA)

Date:

Feb 17 2015

Dharavi Biennale

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Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in China

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Yolanda He Yang

Date:

Dec 11 2022

Late last month, Chinese citizens took up a creative means of protest over the nation’s strict “zero-COVID” policy. In a place with little tolerance for large public demonstrations, protesters have been holding up blank pieces of paper. Their ingenuity inspired a local artist Yolanda He Yang to stage a public art demonstration to subtly communicate their dissent.

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Amazon May Day Strike

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Amazon Employees

Date:

May 1 2020

Essential workers at major companies like Amazon, Instacart, and Target across the United States on Friday protested for better safety protections, working conditions, and pay during the coronavirus pandemic.

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GreeenMarket

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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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Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”

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Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater

Date:

Feb 20 2015

Contra-Tiempo’s first Miami dance performance will bring Ana Maria Alvarez back to her roots. Her father’s family settled in Miami after leaving Cuba in the early ’60s. Most of them, including his four siblings and their spouses and children, still live here, and Alvarez expects much of the clan to attend her show.

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