Projects tagged "South Asia"

Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution
Practitioner:
Himanshu S, Aqui Thami
Date:
Jan 9 1999
Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution
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Abused Goddesses
Practitioner:
Save The Children India, Taproot India
Date:
Feb 1 2010
The bruised and beaten faces of these beautiful Hindu goddesses have an important point to make -- that despite the reverence for women that is a part of Hinduism, India's most populous religion, the country has become extremely unsafe for its female citizens.
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Share It To The End
Practitioner:
Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth
Date:
May 6 2014
To call attention to bullying, the Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth has released a video that gets shorter each time it is viewed. Hosted on a site called Share It To The End, the short animated video depicts a boy getting bullied at school and telling us he always feels alone and doesn’t feel safe anywhere.
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Practitioner:
women
Date:
Mar 11 2016
A group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most of the way, meeting people, holding street meetings and telling people why the Rampal coal plant shouldn’t be built in the Sundarbans.
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India's Farmer Protests
Practitioner:
Farmers
Date:
Sep 1 2020
Since November 2020, tens of thousands of farmers have been living in tents at sprawling camps pitched on highways outside the capital New Delhi. Large barricades erected by the police and topped with barbed wire stand a few hundred meters from the camp, preventing the farmers from encroaching any closer to the center of Delhi. At times, violence has broken out during demonstrations.
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Liberation Caravan
Practitioner:
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Kailash Satyarthi
Date:
Oct 10 2006
Mukti Caravan, the Campaign on Wheels, is a mobile cultural group of former child bonded labourers. Started by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), a movement started by now Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, it involves activists visiting villages to create awareness about need for education, emphasizing on the need for improving access to education and quality of education, to completely eradicate child labour from the society.
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Kiss of Love
Practitioner:
Kiss of Love
Date:
Oct 25 2014
The Kiss of Love campaign in India is a non violent protest against moral policing. It started out as a Facebook page but gained momentum across India when a mob of conservative, right-wing party members attacked and demolished a coffee shop in Kozhikode, Kerala. Their grounds to do so was public display of affection by couples inside the coffee shop, which they saw as immoral activity.
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India's new comic 'super hero': Priya, the rape survivor
Practitioner:
Ram Devineni
Date:
Dec 7 2014
A new comic book with a female rape survivor as its "super hero" has been launched to focus attention on the problem of sexual violence in India. Priya's Shakti, inspired by Hindu mythological tales, tells the story of Priya, a young woman and gang-rape survivor, and Goddess Parvati as they fight against gender crimes in India.
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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Practitioner:
Consortium of Pub-going, Loose, and Forward Women
Date:
Feb 2 2015
In late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they found immoral, claiming that the girls were disrepecting traditional Indian values. Video footage of the event spread across Youtube in India, sparking outrage among many at the attack on innocent women.
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Paint, Poems and Protest Anthems: Myanmar’s Coup Inspires the Art of Defiance
Practitioner:
Artists of Myanmar
Date:
Jan 17 2021
Most nights since a coup returned Myanmar to military rule on Feb. 1, a spectral symbol of protest has glowed on a mildewed side of a building. Where the next illumination will appear in Yangon, the country’s biggest city, is a mystery. But, suddenly, a projected image appears in the dark. Three fingers raised in a rebellious pose. A dove of peace. The smiling face of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government was ousted in the army putsch.
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New Craft Artists in Action
Practitioner:
New Craft Artists in Action, Team Captain Maria Molteni, Institute for Infinitely Small Things, Office of Culture and Design (Manila)
Date:
Dec 22 2012
Maria was psyched to travel to the Philippines where her hand-made basketball nets were well received. Invited with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things (Boston/Mass based) by Clara Balaguer and the Office of Culture and Design (Manila) she worked in Zamboanga City with students of Western Mindanao State University to carry out a 6 day arts and activism workshop.
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#Hokkolorob
Practitioner:
Jadavpur university students
Date:
Sep 15 2015
Hok Kolorob. Let there be noise. It was perhaps these two words of protest that eventually led to the arrest of two engineering students for allegedly molesting a fellow student at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University last month.
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LGBT activists ask strangers for hugs in China protest at Weibo censorship
Practitioner:
Chinese LGBT activists
Date:
Apr 19 2018
A social experiment testing the public’s reaction to gay people in China has gone viral. The blindfolded activists stood in public wearing T-shirts that said “I’m gay would you hug me?” and video of the protest then spread rapidly on Weibo, a hugely popular social media platform in China. The social experiment follows a recent announcement by Weibo to ban gay content on its platform of 400 million active users.
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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha
Practitioner:
Calcutta Presidency Jail, Alokananda Roy
Date:
Jul 7 2007
Alokananda Roy walked into Calcutta's Presidency Jail on International Women's Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. "They shook me," she says. "Their body language — it was as though they had no future, nothing to look forward to."
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In Burma, dogs ridicule the regime
Practitioner:
Burmese dissidents
Date:
Sep 15 2007
Dogs featured in one ruse to ridicule the regime—pictures of dictator Than Shwe were hung around the necks of the stray dogs that roam the streets of Rangoon. The pictures, which rapidly found their way onto the Internet, are the work of an exiled Burmese satirist who goes by the name of Mr Creator. Downloaded copies of his pictures and cartoons are popular items among cyber dissidents.
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Global Citizen Festival Expands to India
Practitioner:
Global Citizen Tickets Initiative
Date:
Sep 12 2016
Jay Z, Coldplay and the Bollywood star Aamir Khan will join forces in India this fall as the Global Citizen Festival expands internationally.
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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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ipaidabribe.com
Practitioner:
Janaagraha
Date:
Jun 5 2007
ipaidabribe.com is an online tool that allows the users to report when they pay bribes, are asked to pay and refuse, and when they find an honest officer. They have a well designed site with apps for mobile phones, and although it started in India it has now grown and you can select multiple countries on different continents.
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Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World
Practitioner:
Artists in Myanmar
Date:
Feb 1 2021
Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Myanmar coup: How citizens are protesting through art
Practitioner:
Myanmar's citizens
Date:
Feb 7 2021
"An atmosphere of fear and anger spread across Myanmar this week as millions of people awoke to find out the military had taken control, ousting the elected government. But how do you fight back in a country where protests have been violently suppressed before? For some, it has meant putting pen to paper and taking the battle online.
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Practitioner:
Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey, Stanford students
Date:
Dec 2 2008
Shake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- a group dedicated to acheiving this monumental task on an annual basis.
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Student flash mobs in Thailand
Practitioner:
students
Date:
Sep 20 2020
"Thai artists and art students are on the frontline of their country’s swelling pro-democracy movement, calling for reforms of Thailand’s military-backed government, and breaking both taboo and national law to criticise the nation’s monarchy.
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The Sahmat Collective
Practitioner:
The Sahmat Collective
Date:
Jan 1 1989
In 1989, playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play outside of Delhi. His death led to the founding of Sahmat, an influential artist collective that has taken a consistent stance against the threats of religious fundamentalism and sectarianism in India through a vibrant mix of high art and street culture.
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Vietnam censors battle bloggers
Practitioner:
Bloggers
Date:
May 9 2012
From New 24By SAPAHanoi - When riot police broke up a recent protest over a forced eviction, Vietnam's bloggers were ready - hidden in nearby trees, they documented the entire incident and quickly posted videos and photos online.Their shaky images spread like wildfire on Facebook, in a sign of growing online defiance in Vietnam, in the face of efforts by
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Meet to Sleep
Practitioner:
Blank Noise
Date:
Nov 2 2014
Meet To Sleep, a campaign started by Blank Noise, asks citizens from all across India to come to different public spaces like parks, and sleep there in order to take back free spaces without being afraid for their safety. The first meet was organised in November, 2014, in Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park. And since then there have been eleven meets across various cities including Jaipur, Pune, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
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