Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha - Publisher/Curator and Jamie Dedes- Guest Editor
Date:
Jun 29 0020
The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision of or for the future. The universal trauma wrought by this virus, invisible and silent and pouncing with madness and mendacity, brings us to a place we’d like to forget but never will.
Women's Fast for Families
Practitioner:
We Belong Together
Date:
Apr 7 2014
The Fast for Families on April 7-9 is the culmination of a month of action involving more than 1200 women fasting through 70 events in 35 states as well as in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City.
Everything She Says Means Everything
Practitioner:
Spencer Tunick
Date:
Jul 17 2016
Calling all feminist activists, nudists, Cleveland-based Democrats, and people overdue for a laundry day. Photographer Spencer Tunick is looking for 100 bold women to pose nude for a Cleveland-based photo shoot on July 17, 2016. Also — you’ll be baring all at the Republican National Convention.
put yourself in their shoes
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Nov 29 2015
Thousands of empty shoes replace marchers at cancelled climate protest in Paris After French authorities cancelled two climate protests in the wake of the Paris attacks, thousands of would-be marchers kept empty shoes in their place. The moving installation coincides with the COP21, a climate summit of 195 UN nations in the French capital. The protest was called by Avaaz
No Borders in the NHS
Practitioner:
Diarmaid McDonald, Leora Fridman, Docs Not Cops
Date:
Sep 30 2017
A creative action against the introduction of mandatory immigration checks and upfront charging in the UK’s National Health Service, including a systematic social media campaign under the hashtag
"Say No to Pig Hand": Anti Public Transport Sexual Harassment
Practitioner:
Leilei Zhang, Xie Shuang, Miss Shi, Miss Hu
Date:
May 17 2017
Leilei Zhang was harassed on a public bus when a man gripped her hand, glared at her and refused to let go. With the determination to raise public awareness, Leilei began a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for what could have been China's first public anti-sexual harassment advertisement. She approached the authorities of her home city, Guangzhou, but it did not want to take on the advertising for fear it would panic the public.
Mama's Day Our Way
Practitioner:
Strong Families
Date:
May 12 2012
By Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice) present Mama’s Day, a multicultural, queer-friendly celebration of the folks who do some of the most significant (and unpaid) work in our society.
Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
Practitioner:
new yorkers
Date:
Feb 11 2024
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests.
In Search of Magic - A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.
Practitioner:
Libia Castro (b. 1970) & Ólafur Ólafsson (b. 1973)
Date:
Oct 3 2020
The duo Libia Castro (b. 1970) & Ólafur Ólafsson (b. 1973) are the recipients of the Art Prize 2021 for their collective performance with the Magic Team In Search of Magic - A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.
Families Of The Uvalde Shooting Victims Are Camping Outside The School District's Office Demanding Action
Practitioner:
Uvalde Families
Date:
Sep 30 2022
Brett Cross has been camping outside the school district administrative office in Uvalde, Texas, for 78 hours.
Anatomic Explosion
Practitioner:
Yayoi Kusama
Date:
Oct 15 1968
OBLITERATE WALL STREET MEN WITH POLKA DOTS
Police dogs and firehoses
Practitioner:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Date:
May 3 1963
Police dogs and firehoses is, for most of the world, the image of Birmingham made by Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police Department during the Birmingham Campaign of the African American Civil Rights Movement.
Autonomous Zones
Practitioner:
Student Plenum
Date:
Feb 11 2015
After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO – making innuendo about ‘foreign influence’ prompting similar concerns from Russia.
Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg's UWS Apartment
Practitioner:
The People for Bernie Sanders, Latinos for revolution, Viva Bernie 2020, Young Progressives of America, POlitics Reborn, Woke folks, Millennials for revolution, Unofficial: DNC, New York City Progressives, The Digital Left
Date:
May 18 2018
Action as a response to viral video of Attorney Aaron Schlossberg's racist rant against Spanish speaking customers and employees at a midtown restaurant. The "Latin Party" included food, music, and dance celebrating Latina/o culture in the US. From FB event page:
No nos vamos, nos echan
Practitioner:
Juventud sin Futuro- Youth without a Future
Date:
Apr 7 2013
The "no nos vamos, nos echan" campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced in exile.
Matador almost gets the Wall Street Bull
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Nov 10 2011
The incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast, traditional ways of coaxing a bull into anger in preparation for a Castilian corrida, or bullfight.
The powerful images of Hong Kong’s protests
Practitioner:
Hong kong residents
Date:
Jun 1 2019
The face of Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam is falling apart: an eyeball has fallen out of its socket and the flesh of her left chin has been ripped off. Black-clad protesters in yellow hard hats are standing on top of her head, hanging a banner with ‘Hong Kong add oil’ on her forehead and shouting into her ear with a megaphone.
Light A Candle for Humanity
Practitioner:
Everyone
Date:
Dec 18 2016
On Sunday December 18th from 6-8pm, the night before the Electoral College meets to vote, join me in lighting a candle for humanity. The lit candles will be a peaceful protest against Donald Trump being selected the 45th President of the United States of America. More importantly, we will send a message to any Elector who would like to vote faithless that we support them.
Green Corners
Practitioner:
Negar Farajiani
Date:
Jan 1 2011
The project focuses on creating green spaces as effective elements which ameliorate air quality absorbing chemicals from the atmosphere.
Climate activists bring Trojan horse to British Museum in BP protest
Practitioner:
Climate Activists, Theatrical protest group: BP or not BP?
Date:
Feb 7 2020
Activists have taken a Trojan horse into the grounds of the British Museum to protest against its sponsorship deal with the oil corporation BP. Protesters dressed as ancient Greek warriors snuck their 13ft-tall wooden horse through a side gate at 7.30am on Friday and pulled it on to the forecourt in front of the museum’s entrance.
In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In Theater
Practitioner:
EMERGE NYC
Date:
May 31 2017
Note before the post: This article is great in highlighting a specific case of creative activism in the streets of New York City, but also gives some contextual background to how this project manifested. On a sidewalk in the Village in downtown Manhattan, an African-American woman leans on her elbows and knees, wearing only black underpants. Scrawled in black marker all over her body are the words "Ain't I a Woman?"
Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkers
Practitioner:
Justice for Migrant Women
Date:
Apr 20 2023
Sitting at a folding table in the basement of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Columbus, Monica Jacobo used a felt tip marker to write the words “No means no!” on a white bandana.
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.
Fed-Up Chef Breaks Down Deer Leg in Front of Vegan Protesters
Practitioner:
Anti-Vegan Activisits
Date:
Mar 28 2018
After weeks of vegan activists protesting in front of his nose-to-tail bistro, chef Michael Hunter decided to make a statement by butchering a freshly-killed deer’s leg in the window of his Toronto restaurant, Antler Kitchen & Bar, right in front of the demonstrators. “I figured, I’ll show them,” Hunter tells writer Corey Mintz. “I’m going to have my own protest.”
Italian climate change protesters turn Venice's Grand Canal green
Practitioner:
Extinction Rebellion group
Date:
Dec 9 2023
Italian environmentalists used a dye to turn Venice's Grand Canal green on Saturday in protest at what they said was a lack of progress at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The protesters from the Extinction Rebellion group, dangling from the Rialto Bridge over the canal with the aid of climbing ropes, also displayed a banner that read: "COP28: While the government talks, we are hanging by a thread."

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