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YBCA Explores Art And Activism in Take This Hammer
Practitioner:
Christian L. Frock
Date:
Mar 21 2016
A new exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that showcases activism through art and media in the San Francisco Bay Area, gets its name, Take This Hammer, from a 1963 documentary about the author James Baldwin as he went around San Francisco, talking to African-Americans about what it was like for them in the city.
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Arabian Nights
Practitioner:
Scheherazad
Date:
The development of the Nights from the oriental oral and literary traditions of the Middle Ages into a classical work for Western readers is a fascinating one. The notebook of a Jewish book dealer from Cairo around the year 1150 contains the first documentary evidence for the Arabic title. The oldest preserved manuscripts, comprising a core corpus of about 270 nights, appear to date from the 15th century.
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MyPolarIce
Practitioner:
Artists
Date:
Apr 22 2012
MyPolarIce sells small pieces of polar ice at a popup store in Museum Square Amsterdam.
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El Matam El Mish Masry
Practitioner:
Asunción Molinos Gordo
Date:
Nov 1 2012
The project was based on the creation of a restaurant in the neighborhood of El Lewa, Cairo – one of the many neighborhoods built illegally, known as Ashguahiyats, a term meaning 'leaving things to chance'.
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OWS Subway Storytelling
Practitioner:
OWS, Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Nov 17 2011
In the Fall of 2011, after the Occupy Movement was in full swing, and meetings, actions and info sharing had expanded beyond Zuccotti Park, meaningful messaging and outreach tactics were were activated on a near daily basis.
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"Reject and Protect" actions against Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.
Practitioner:
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance
Date:
Apr 22 2014
The Cowboy and Indian Alliance, a coalition of indigenous tribes, ranchers, farmers, stages a protest named "Reject and Protect" against the Keystone XL oil pipeline project along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, as a part of series of demonstrations around the Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, April 22, 2014, on the occasion of the World Earth Day.
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It's MY Body
Practitioner:
It's MY Body
Date:
May 14 2012
It's My Body! was initially a project for Stephen Duncombe's Media Activism class during Spring 2012. We designed and developed the concept for the class, but have yet to set up the actual website. The images below show the site's layout.
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Russell FourEagles - BORN to HEAL
Practitioner:
Todd Dacquisto, Tim Philosophos
Date:
Apr 8 2014
Born to Heal, a documentary exploring the life of Native American healer, Russell FourEagles, and a handful of the lives he has touched. Growing up in a tarpaper shack in the north woods, Russell FourEagles was born to be a healer. His grandmother chose him to learn the accumulated wisdom from over 200 generations of family healers.
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Mareas
Practitioner:
various groups
Date:
Dec 6 2012
El movimiento 15M ha abierto la veda a una protesta insistente, que mantiene la presencia en la calle. Según la delegada de gobierno, Cristina Cifuentes, en Madrid hay ocho manifestaciones diarias.
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Mayday Space
Practitioner:
Mayday Space
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Mayday is a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together.
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Visualizing Palestine
Practitioner:
Visualizing Palestine
Date:
Oct 9 2013
Over the past 2 years, Visualizing Palestine (VP) has harnessed visual storytelling to bring public attention to the daily injustices facing Palestinians, from demolition of homes to mothers forced to give birth at military checkpoints. VP wants to start 2014 by raising global awareness around two key issues.
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Women to the Front: Perspectives on Equality, Gender, and Activism
Practitioner:
Nancy Rivera, Scotty Hill, Salt Lake City Arts Council
Date:
Mar 16 2020
Women to the Front: Perspectives on Equality, Gender, and Activism is an exhibit that showcases 15 female artists with ties to Utah who infuse their art with activism. The exhibit commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment and the 150th anniversary of the first vote cast by a woman in Utah.
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Falling Fruit
Practitioner:
Caleb Phillips, Ethan Welty
Date:
Jan 1 2013
The Falling Fruit project was born from a passion for food and the environment. It is organised in an open-source database that brings together the entirety of maps made by foragers from the Internet. The database also includes edible species found in municipal tree inventories: databases of street (and sometimes private) trees used by many cities, universities, and other institutions to manage the urban forest.
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Green Day’s “American Idiot”
Practitioner:
Green Day
Date:
Sep 21 2004
Mass media using propaganda to brainwash citizens. Confusion and ignorance causing a divide. People rising up against an oppressive government. Humans being torn between rage and love. These are the themes of Green Day’s widely successful 2004 album, “American Idiot.” These themes still sound familiar. Nearly two decades later, the world, especially the United States, faces these same issues.
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Trek the Vote
Practitioner:
Trek the Vote
Date:
Nov 5 2024
We are a grassroots movement of Star Trek fans volunteering with non-partisan, pro-democracy groups nationwide. Our team of thousands of "Starfleet officers" volunteer with our partner organizations to support voting rights, improve election transparency, and help elections administrators meet their staffing needs.
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One People Flash Mob
Practitioner:
dancewithoutborders
Date:
Dec 13 2011
On 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at OccupySF & Oakland to dance the world awake. 
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Undercover Investigation at Factory Farm
Practitioner:
The Humane Society of the United States
Date:
May 8 2012
By Joanna Zelman Piglets are haphazardly swung in circles, sows are beaten, and animals squirm with untreated abscesses in new footage alleging animal abuse at a Wyoming pig breeding facility.
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Insane PR Circus Rocks Holland—But It's Not that Polar Bear Thing
Practitioner:
The Yes Men, Greenpeace
Date:
Aug 22 2013
What seemed to be a cruel and bizarre PR campaign took over Amsterdam yesterday as a barge with an apparently drugged polar bear, a Russian child superstar, and a colorful marching band wound through Amsterdam's canals to the city zoo. There, visitors and staff watched Gazprom and Shell reps officiously give the bear to Amsterdam—before being forcibly removed by zoo security and city police.
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What Kind of Man are You?
Practitioner:
aleXsandro Palombo
Date:
Mar 7 2014
The series "No Violence Against Women" depicts famous cartoon couples transformed into victims of abuse. The women are left bloodied and with black eyes with the slogan "What Kind of Man are You?" above. The images are a commentary on domestic violence and were released in honor of International Women's Day
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Shake The Dust (Film)
Practitioner:
Loose Luggage, Adam Sjoberg
Date:
Feb 20 2013
"'Shake the Dust' is a feature documentary that tells the stories of break-dancers in struggling communities around the globe that, although separated by cultural boundaries and individual struggles, are intrinsically tied to one another through their passion for break-dancing and hip-hop culture.
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