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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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Vietnam comes to Washington
Practitioner:
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Date:
Jun 15 1971
It’s the summer of 1971 and tourists flock around one of Washington DC’s most famous hotspots – the Capitol steps. Journalist Art Goldberg recalls ‘a squad of soldiers moving through the space. They are grubby-looking troopers, clad in jungle fatigues. Jumping a low fence, they begin shouting at a group of tourists. “All right! Hold it! Hold it! Nobody move. Nobody move!” Their voices full of tension and anger. A man runs from the crowd.
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Street Art Project Uses Building Facades to Spread the Word About 314 Endangered Bird Species
Practitioner:
Audonon Mural Project
Date:
Jan 1 2016
In a visually captivating public art venture, the Audonon Mural Project seeks to raise awareness for species of birds threatened by climate change in a rather unconventional way—street art. A collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery, scatterings of stunning avian themed murals are cropping up throughout John James Audubon’s old Manhattan neighbourhood.
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Necessity of "Moral and National Education" as curriculum
Practitioner:
Scholarism, Parents' Concern Group
Date:
May 29 2012
Moral and national education (MNE) s a school curriculum proposed by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong, transformed from the current moral and civic education (MCE).
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Colorful Revolution
Practitioner:
Anna Krukulj & Irena Stzeijovska
Date:
Apr 1 2016
A wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and religious leaders. The leaked conversations appeared to expose widespread corruption among ministers, including alleged vote-rigging and a murder cover-up.
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Streets into Gardens
Practitioner:
Reclaim the Streets
Date:
May 14 1999
During this time rent prices in the Lower East Side/ East Village were rising due to the presence of many community gardens. In response to this, then Mayor Giuliani decided to sell the 198 gardens in question. Streets into Gardens was an effective project that engaged the neighborhood into a collective of change.
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Shift Change Dress
Practitioner:
Anyone!
Date:
Jan 31 2016
Shift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message and to share their work with the community.
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Use Art to heal the world
Practitioner:
Lynda Bell
Date:
Aug 29 2021
I must first come clean, I studied fine arts in high school from years nine to 12. Since my studies were concluded, I had never held a paintbrush again.
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South American Traffic Mimes
Practitioner:
Venezuelan Government
Date:
Oct 7 2011
"Mimes gesture as they stand in a crosswalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Oct. 7, 2011. The mayor of the city's eastern district of Sucre has launched a unique program aimed to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians, putting 120 mimes at intersections to politely and silently scold violators"
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LAMP
Practitioner:
Detroit Summer
Date:
Jun 5 2010
via Detroit Future Youth:
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Step Into My Shoes And Sit In My Seat
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Mar 11 2017
Topic: Displaced people Concept: Explore and communicate some of the issues around displacement in a global, European and Irish context. Date of action: 11th March 2.30 to 4.20 pm Place: Emmett Place, Cork City, Ireland
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Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men's Toilets
Practitioner:
Li Maizi
Date:
Jun 25 2014
Women around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies’ restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an “occupy” movement in southern China.
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Capitalism Works For Me! True/False
Practitioner:
Steve Lambert
Date:
Jul 1 2012
A 20ft by 9ft scoreboard that reads "Capitalism Works For Me!" and allows visitors to vote on whether Capitalism works in their lives by pressing a button for True or False.
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Street Advertising Takeover - Artist turns billboards into democratic spaces
Practitioner:
Jordan Seiler
Date:
Apr 3 2016
"Two weekends ago, a loose network of these artists and activists, under the name Subvertisers International, launched their first global effort to reclaim our shared public environment from its monopolization by commercial media. The demand was not for better or more truthful advertising, but to imagine what a city would look like when the stories we told ourselves in public space reflected a democratic voice.
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Greenpeace Zombie Protest
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Sep 27 2012
Members of Greenpeace together with environmental advocates dressed as zombies attend a creative protest against water pollution in Manila on September 27, 2012. The protesters delivered a petition urging the establishment of a “Right-To-Know” system for chemicals and the adoption of a policy to eliminate hazardous chemicals released by factories into freshwater bodies.
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Flip the Debt Clock
Practitioner:
Flip the Debt
Date:
Feb 13 2013
On Monday, a grassroots, anti–corporate tax-dodging coalition called Flip the Debt crashed a "Fix the Debt" party at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire hosted by Honeywell CEO David Cote to tell the gathered deficit hawk disciples that paying their "damn taxes" would be a better solution than crippling the nation with fiscal austerity measures.
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Why the Music of Protest Is Still Worth Defending
Practitioner:
Dar Williams
Date:
Mar 7 2014
It's become fashionable to say that political music is either dead or irrelevant.
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Marxism will give health to the sick
Practitioner:
Frida Kahlo
Date:
Apr 13 1954
To mark the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx, PL Henderson offers an appreciation of one of Frida Kahlo’s greatest paintings, which was heavily influenced by Marx's creative thinking.
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Mexican Feminists make an artistic intervention on "national heroes" portraits
Practitioner:
Mexican feminists
Date:
Sep 6 2020
Women's collectives and feminist groups occupied the National Commission of Human Rights demanding results to several neglected, open investigations of feminicide in the country. During the occupation, they interviewed the portraits of historical "national heroes" with spray-paint, glitter, markers, and liquid paint.
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Men's Magazine Prints Editions Using HIV-Infected Blood To Tackle Stigma
Practitioner:
Vangardist, Saatchi & Saatchi
Date:
May 4 2015
Thanks to dramatic advances in drug therapy, infection with HIV has been transformed from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable disease. HIV-positive patients can even enjoy a normal life expectancy if treatment is successful. So we needn’t worry about this virus anymore, right? Sadly, that seems to be the misinformed idea held by many.
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