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Refuge
Practitioner:
City of Melbourne Arts House
Date:
Jul 1 2016
Refuge is a 5 year transdisciplinary project that brings together artists, community members and emergency services to investigate arts and culture’s role in developing preparedness and building community resilience for climate related disasters.
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Protesters Block Access to Private Prison Company’s South Florida Headquarters
Practitioner:
Geo Group Protestors
Date:
Dec 3 2019
At least nine protesters were arrested during a protest Tuesday at Geo Group headquarters — a Florida-based private prison company that operates facilities nationwide.
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Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit Ransom
Practitioner:
The Cookie Monster (Krümel Monster)
Date:
Jan 15 2013
Thief steals 44 lb golden cookie from the world-renowned Bahlsen Cookie Headquarters in Hanover, Germany earlier this January. Under the guise of Sesame Street's beloved Cookie Monster, the thief sent the headquarters a ransom note demanding cookies be donated to a children's hospital in Hanover. As plain cookies simply would not suffice, the Cookie Monster demands cookies of the milk chocolate variety.
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Freedom of speech Lecture to a university occupation
Practitioner:
Raymond Geuss
Date:
Nov 29 2011
On November 29th 2011 Proffessor of Philosophy Raymond Geuss relocated a lecture he was scheduled to give to an occupied lecture hall on the campus of cambridge university.
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Carly's Cafe
Practitioner:
Carly Fleischmann
Date:
Jun 3 2012
Carly's cafe 
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"Your body is a battleground"
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jun 30 1989
A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.”
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Corporations Ain't People
Practitioner:
Backbone Campaign
Date:
Sep 14 2010
Corporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest 
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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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Ghana Wins Election 2016
Practitioner:
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Rebecca Ekpe etc.
Date:
Dec 1 2016
An exercise that used drama/and audio visuals to engage with with all election partners, especially the political parties especially the political parties and their candidates/leaders, Electoral Commission, Musicians Association of Ghana, etc to push for a free, fair and peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary election and hand over of power to who ever won the elections peacefully.
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Art Activists Use Sex Dolls To Protest Spain's Controversial Anti-Abortion Law
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Mar 24 2014
In response to Spain's increasingly restrictive legislation limiting access to abortion in the country, a group of art activists known for their bold, disruptive flair are taking action.
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Femme art witch blends activism into work to embrace Punjabi heritage
Practitioner:
Khushboo Kataria Gulati
Date:
Feb 16 2016
Khushboo Kataria Gulati lights an off-white candle and passes the flame to a switch of sage, casting a spell around the purple-lit room as she places paintbrush to canvas. The herbaceous smoke billows around her, time suspends and her paint strokes create a scene of three multicolored faces surrounded by plants.
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Men in Grey
Practitioner:
Men in Grey
Date:
Aug 27 2010
From Media Facades Festival website:
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Davey Drumpf, Presidential Cousin-At-Large
Practitioner:
Dave Lippman
Date:
Dec 23 2016
A new series of video commentaries with Davey Drumpf, The Donald's long-lost third cousin, twice removed. His views are several degrees to the Left of the Don's. First installment: Co-housing vs. Weaponized Xenophobia.
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Taking Feminist Battle to China’s Streets, and Landing in Jail
Practitioner:
Young Chinese Feminists
Date:
Feb 2 2012
The young Chinese feminists shaved their heads to protest inequality in higher education and stormed men’s restrooms to highlight the indignities women face in their prolonged waits at public toilets.
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Practitioner:
Cindy Weil, Enactivist
Date:
Mar 8 2019
The Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond to collect yarn-based creations by immigrants and their descendants.
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For Once, Don't Do It
Practitioner:
Nike
Date:
May 29 2020
Text by Seth Cohen - On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead, one of the nation’s leading athletic apparel companies called on individuals to not turn their back on the painful issue of racism in the United States.
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8 Extraordinary Greens
Practitioner:
jenna spevack
Date:
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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At the Age of Coronavirus: Rise of Xenophobia and Anti-Asian Racism
Practitioner:
Racist, Xenophobian, Anti-Asian organizations
Date:
Mar 4 2020
The global response to COVID-19 has made clear that the fear of contracting disease has an ugly cousin: xenophobia. As the coronavirus has spread from China to other countries, anti-Asian discrimination has followed closely behind, manifesting in plummeting sales at Chinese restaurants, near-deserted Chinatown districts and racist bullying against people perceived to be Chinese.
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HeadSpace Magazine
Practitioner:
HeadSpace
Date:
May 11 2013
Express and Create, Solidarity and Support" is a slogan that summarises the aims of HeadSpace, a new, non-profit, artistic magazine that accepts submissions on the theme of mental health. It is entirely run by volunteers and mostly distributed for free in psychiatric wards and other places that cater to people with mental health problems. The first issue was launched in May 2013 in Dublin.
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Strange Fruit: The First Great Protest Song
Practitioner:
Billie Holiday
Date:
Apr 20 1939
It is a clear, fresh New York night in March 1939. You're on a date and you've decided to investigate a new club in a former speakeasy on West 4th Street: Cafe Society, which calls itself "The Wrong Place for the Right People".
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