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Decolonize Me
Practitioner:
Foreman Art Gallery
Date:
Feb 5 2013
Decolonize Me features six contemporary Aboriginal artists whose works challenge, interrogate and reveal Canada’s long history of colonization in daring and innovative ways.
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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Practitioner:
http://truttartist.com/
Date:
Oct 1 2015
Two artists have repurposed the presidential candidate’s campaign bus in order to critique his controversial views. In October 2015, the artists David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic purchased a Donald Trump tour bus on Craigslist.
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Ferdinand the Bull
Practitioner:
Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson
Date:
Jan 1 1936
On a damp and rainy Sunday in October of 1935, Munro Leaf sat down to write a story. He had been eager to work with his friend – the illustrator Robert Lawson – for some time and so he decided to pen a book which he felt might suit the illustrator’s skills. Lawson was a master at drawing animals but horses, dogs, cats, rabbits and mice had all been done a thousand times already.
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Ghosts of Union Square - The Contested City
Practitioner:
Not An Alternative
Date:
Oct 1 2011
"This project took aim at a public relations campaign produced by The Union Square Partnership, a local Business Improvement District (BID) attempting to privatize the north end of NYC’s Union Square park and install a high-end celebrity chef restaurant. They hosted historical walking tours of the park for decision-makers, as a means of getting buy-in for their development initiative.
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40 Days for Life
Practitioner:
40 Days for Life
Date:
Sep 26 2012
There have now been ten coordinated 40 Days for Life campaigns since 2007, mobilizing people of faith and conscience in 440 cities across the United States and Canada, plus cities in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belize, Denmark, England, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, Puerto Rico and Spain.During these unified efforts, participants witnessed countless blessings from God:
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Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gamble
Practitioner:
Zoran Naskovski
Date:
Dec 30 2015
Artist Zoran Naskovski continued his project "Mandala and Cross / farewell to arms” with analysis of media representations of social processes in 2015, that resulted with a new installation: “Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gamble”.
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Ivanka Vacuuming
Practitioner:
Jennifer Rubell
Date:
Feb 1 2019
From Public Delivery: "The art piece, which was showcased at the Flashpoint Gallery in Washington D.C. from February 1 to 17, 2019, allowed visitors to interact with it. The audience had a pile of crumbs placed right in front of the three-walled setup, which they would through and watch as ‘Ivanka’ vacuumed them all up.
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Congo La Sape
Practitioner:
Sapeurs
Date:
Apr 1 2014
Their name, Sapeurs, comes from the French slang se saper, meaning to dress with class, but also from the acronym of their social group : La Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (the Society of Ambianceurs and Elegant Persons). La Sape can be traced back to the early years of colonialism.
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The Subtle Muckrakers of the Coronavirus Epidemic
Practitioner:
Chinese well-respected outlets (such as Caixin magazine) and social media s
Date:
Jan 23 2020
The outbreak of the coronavirus has brought international scrutiny down on China’s political system. Again. A few commentators have applauded the efficiency of the Chinese Communist Party’s response, but most have zoomed in on its weaknesses. Some have even blamed the party itself for the outbreak, calling the disease a “Communist coronavirus” or “the Belt and Road Pandemic.”
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Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path
Practitioner:
ustin Pearson
Date:
Apr 18 2023
Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he'd be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he'd be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at the forefront of the conversation on gun regulations.
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"Kitchenware Revolution" to protest Icelandic financial crisis
Practitioner:
Hördur Torfason, Icelanders
Date:
Jan 20 2009
In 2008, Iceland was in turmoil. There was a systematic failure of its three main commercial banks. The Economist called the collapse the largest suffered by any country in history, relative to Iceland’s population size. In response to what was seen as government inertia, protests began to take place from around October of that year. However, the real fun began in January 2009.
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Black People Love Us
Practitioner:
Jonah Peretti
Date:
Jan 1 2005
This satirical website ridicules hipster racism and black tokenism, using two fictional white characters - Sally and Johnny - who have many black friends. The webpage is fairly simple and features fictional testimonies by black people celebrating the stereotypes and innocuous, but prejudiced behavior of Sally and Johnny. There is also a section of submitted testimonies and hate mail/fanmail.
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How 'Animal Farm' Gave Hope to Stalin's Refugees
Practitioner:
George Orwell
Date:
Feb 16 1946
Reading the introduction to Animal Farm by Christopher Hitchens a few years ago, I was stunned to learn that George Orwell, then a struggling writer in London, worked by letter with a group of refugees to publish the novel in Ukrainian in the displaced persons camps of postwar Europe.
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Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps "They are stealing our jobs"
Practitioner:
Mexican taxi drivers
Date:
Oct 12 2020
Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition.
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COUNTERSPACE
Practitioner:
Cristina Morales
Date:
Aug 1 1919
Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired ‘social sculpture’ revisited, and an alternative map of the universe.
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A Lesson on Diversity & Inclusion from the Savage X Fenty Show
Practitioner:
Rihanna
Date:
Sep 1 2018
Yesterday, I procrastinated my way to watching the Savage X Fenty Show, and I was left in complete awe of Rihanna. She truly is a powerhouse, but on top of that, all her brands; Fenty Beauty, Savage X Fenty and Fenty have intentionally left no one behind.
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Rokudenashiko and Her Man-Boat
Practitioner:
Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi)
Date:
Mar 1 2014
Megumi Igarashi—who goes by the name Rokudenashiko, or "good-for-nothing" in Japanese—is known as a "vagina artist" in her native Japan. Among the pieces she's created are a vagina chandelier, a remote-controlled vagina car, and a 3-D-printed kayak modeled after her vulva, which she actually rowed in 2014 "as a metaphorical image of life springing from it," she told Glamour through a translator.
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Now Watch This
Practitioner:
Surveillance Camera Players (SCP)
Date:
Nov 1 1996
The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places.
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Egypt’s Hip Hop Revolution Continues: New Videos From The Narcicyst & MC Amin
Practitioner:
The Narcycist
Date:
Feb 29 2012
A year after the revolution, Egypt is still in conflict, still grasping for a catalyst to solidify its society and bring unity and peace to the people. Violence, poverty and unemployement are still rampant, and the voiceless still seek a voice. As was the case in 2011, Hip Hop has reemerged as a voice for the Egyptian youth for 2012, with new challenges and frustrations countering their struggle for freedom and equality.
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Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic Amasses
Practitioner:
Lynn Neuman
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Lynn Neuman, director of New York City–based Artichoke Dance, became preoccupied with single-use disposability after she started wondering about waste and who was responsible for it. For some of her performances, she has collected massive quantities of discarded plastics, like bags and six-pack rings, and invited community members to contribute their own. “There’s a real aha moment when people see how quickly plastic amasses,” she says.
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