Projects tagged "Civil Liberties"

Turkey's Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After 'Secret Obscenities'
Practitioner:
Turkish Artists
Date:
May 2 2012
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Asgarda: Amazons of the Ukraine
Practitioner:
Katerina Tarnouska, Asgarda
Date:
Jan 1 2004
In the Ukraine, a country where females are victims of sexual trafficking and gender oppression, a new tribe of empowered women is emerging. Calling themselves the “Asgarda”, the women seek complete autonomy from men. Residing in the Carpathian Mountains, the tribe is comprised of 150 women of varying ages, primarily students, led by 30 year-old Katerina Tarnouska.
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Glory to Hong Kong - Protesters Create National Anthem
Practitioner:
Hong Kong Protesters
Date:
Aug 30 2019
“Glory to Hong Kong,” created less than three weeks ago, has rapidly been adopted as a symbol of the pro-democracy movement. via NYTimes:
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Design For Freedom Summit Shares Strategies For Removing Modern-Day Slavery From Building And Construction Supply Chain
Practitioner:
Grace Farms Foundation
Date:
Mar 29 2024
Shackles. Cotton. The Big House. Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery. Plantation Slavery. Slavery where human beings are bought, sold, and owned. The kind outlawed in the United States by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Slavery as a relic of the 19th Century. “Six of us lived, worked, slept in a 10-by-10 (foot) room without a bed, bathroom, or clean water,” Nasreen Sheikh remembers.
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Threads of Resistance
Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance
Date:
Jul 15 2017
A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the nearly 560 pieces submitted for jurying, are shown on our website.
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Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye
Practitioner:
Gado
Date:
May 3 2020
Godfrey Mwampembwa, popularly known as Gado, has been holding politicians accountable for nearly 30 years. Now, his concern has shifted to the coronavirus. In a quiet office on the third floor of a building in Nairobi’s central business district, the cartoonist known by his pen name, Gado, was sketching a satire about the coronavirus.
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Beyond AI WeiWei
Practitioner:
International Art Basel Fair
Date:
Mar 27 2015
In a gallery in Hong Kong’s Chai Wan district last week, during the city’s third annual installment of the international Art Basel fair, the Beijing-based artist Huang Rui introduced a new live work called “Red Black White Grey.” At the start of the performance, four affectless women walked onstage wearing trench coats, then disrobed one by one as Huang, who is sixty-three, slathered their bodies with black and then white paint.
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Erasing the Border
Practitioner:
Ana Teresa Fernández
Date:
May 6 2011
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I'm Every Woman
Practitioner:
Cati Vanrell, Lorraine King Marshall, Marie Cronin, Fala Buggy
Date:
Mar 11 2017
Our Action: We set up “I’m every Woman” as a 3D street installation. It took place on the Boardwalk, Cork City on the weekend of International Women’s week. Our aims were to promote gender-equality. As a group we identified women as locally and globally dehumanized. We challenged this by honouring women and interacting with people we encountered to celebrate women, both locally and globally.
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NYC Street Art Map
Practitioner:
Huffington Post
Date:
Jan 26 2014
Huffington Post put together a digital, interactive map of some of the so-called best and brightest street art collections. Street art is important because it allows artists, usually from the community where the street art is taking place, to interact with the community and bring color/brightness to the environment.
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Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACE
Practitioner:
Actionplay
Date:
May 14 2022
Actionplay, a theatre company dedicated to providing autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled teens and young adults equal access to the theatre-making process, is pleased to announce their next production, the new musical comedy The Surface (or, That One Time Atlantis Washed Up On the Beach).
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Rap Challenge to the Thai Military Junta
Practitioner:
Rap Against Dictatorship
Date:
Feb 15 2019
BANGKOK — The rhymes came to Nutthapong Srimuong before dawn, when Bangkok is as still as it can be and the night jasmine overpowers the Thai capital with its perfume. The country whose capital is turned into a killing field Whose charter is written and erased by the army’s boots The country that points a gun at your throat Where you must choose to eat the truth or bullets
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The Declaration of Sentiments from the First Women's Rights Convention
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Date:
Jul 20 1848
The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention. The principal author of the Declaration was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who modeled it upon the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Tracking Transience
Practitioner:
Hasan Elahi
Date:
Jan 1 2002
An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Hasan Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public.
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Kurt Hiller's Literary Activism
Practitioner:
Kurt Hiller
Date:
Sep 23 1928
Kurt Hiller’s Literary Activism 
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Traveling While Black
Practitioner:
Felix & Paul Studios
Date:
Jan 25 2019
The theatre has luxurious red velvet upholstered seats, grand ceilings and gilded trimmings. The rows of chairs stretch back into the ostensible blackness, with light beaming from the projector room. Ahead, archival footage of stylish black travelers pack the screen as an unseen narrator discusses the hardships of mid-20th-century black travel.
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Quinceañera Protest
Practitioner:
Jolt
Date:
Jul 20 2017
On Wednesday, a group of 15 teenage girls, dressed in brightly colored gowns, stood in front of the Texas State Capitol to participate in one of Latin American culture’s most cherished traditions: the quinceañera.
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Guide for Youth Protestors
Practitioner:
Jessalyn Aaland
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The project consists of a double-sided, hand-drawn 8.5" x 11" quarter-fold sheet available to print and distribute freely. It features such topics as basic information on police tactics (kettling, LRADS, tear gas or pepper spray), ways cops might try to get you to talk to them, and your rights as a student.
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Tactical Ice Cream Unit - Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of Anarchism
Practitioner:
Aaron Gach and Center for Tactical Magic
Date:
Sep 16 2008
By COREY KILGANNON There was something odd about the ice cream truck that pulled up to the curb on Park Avenue near 67th Street on Friday, with its proletarian color scheme and its overdressed driver with the subversive grin.
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A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’
Practitioner:
Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Date:
Mar 1 2020
The idea was born in an instant. A curator attending an opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art was immediately captivated by a painting from an artist she had barely heard of, Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
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Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged history
Practitioner:
Cleveland Museum of Art
Date:
Nov 24 2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Dana Schutz, the acclaimed New York artist who trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art, famously stirred controversy at the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art with “Open Casket,’’ her painting depicting Emmett Till’s body in its coffin. Till, a black 14-year-old, was murdered and mutilated by white men in Mississippi in 1955 after having been falsely accused of flirting with a white woman.
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"White Square" Activists Gather in Red Square
Practitioner:
White Square
Date:
Apr 9 2012
<br>Care2.com April 9, 2012 By Sarah Vrba There have been regular protests in Moscow in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidential seat in March. Early last month, thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Moscow in response to what they felt were rigged elections in favor of Putin. Over the last month, organizers have faced an uphill battle as they have attempted to keep protesters motivated.
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Sneaking the Jews out of Denmark
Practitioner:
Denmark
Date:
Sep 15 1943
In September 1943, the Nazis prepared for the deportation of all Danish Jews to the concentration camps and death. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat with a conscience, deliberately leaked the plans for the roundup, which was due to begin on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Armed with the information from Duckwitz, Danes swung into action.
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Rainbow Makeover: Swedish Response to Russian anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination.
Practitioner:
Local LGBT activists
Date:
Aug 12 2013
Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates offered their colorful stance on Russia's controversial anti-gay legislation over the weekend.
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The Vivienne Foundation
Practitioner:
Vivienne Westwood
Date:
Dec 15 2022
The Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne's creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always utilised her platform of prestige to make the world a better place.
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