Skip to main content

Choose Gallery:

  • Issue
  • Medium
  • Region
  • How it works
Log in/Register
To prevent automated spam submissions leave this field empty.

Search form

change

Activates (people)
Amplifies (issue or campaign)
Strengthens (community)
Provides (a useful service)
Shifts (culture)
Sustains (change)
Does nothing (at all)
Other

medium

Clothing & Costumes
Demonstration & Protest
Digital & Technology
Film, Video & Photo
Installation
Music & Sound
Organization
Performance
Print & Design
Visual Arts
Writing & Manifestos
Mixed Media
Other

issue

Advertising & Consumerism
Animal Rights
Arts & Culture
Cities
Civil Liberties
Corporate Power
Community
Disability
Domestic Violence
Education
Environment
Health
Immigration
LGBTQIA
Food & Water
Housing & Land
Labor
Media
Natural Resources & Energy
Police & Prisons
Politics & Government
Religion
Revolution
Science & Technology
Sex & Gender
Race & Ethnicity
Transportation
Violence & War
Wealth & Poverty
Multi-issue

region

Africa
Australia & Oceania
East Asia
Europe
Latin America & Caribbean
Middle East
North Africa
North America
South Asia
Worldwide
Online
2016
Chrysaleta

Projects tagged "government"

Brooklyn Bridge Lottery
Practitioner:
Joey Skaggs
Date:
Mar 24 1992
On March 24, 1992, a fake inter-office memorandum from the then Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins, was leaked to the press. A handwritten Post-it note was attached which read "Thought you might be interested in seeing what the Mayor's up to! 'Mayor to Sell the Brooklyn Bridge!' Think this will fly?? I love New York!!!"
Read more
Favorite 
0
Citizen Four
Practitioner:
Laura Poitras
Date:
Oct 24 2014
"CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Read more
Favorite 
1
Tyre Nichols Murder Draws Social Justice Activists to Irvington Rally
Practitioner:
Black Lives Matter
Date:
Jan 29 2023
Some 70 or 80 lo­cal ac­tivists, politi­cians and other con­cerned cit­i­zens gath­ered out­side Irv­ing­ton Vil­lage Hall Sun­day evening, two days af­ter the re­lease of gut-wrench­ing video of the mur­der of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of po­lice­men in Mem­phis.
Read more
Favorite 
0
Above and Beyond Memorial
Practitioner:
Numerous artists and veterans Linden Allen, Rich Wharton, Francisco Martinez, Nate Jungheim and Ron Blasen.
Date:
Jan 25 2016
"The massive "Above and Beyond Memorial" will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for the 58,000 replica dog tags honoring those who died as a result of their service in the war that stretched from March 1965 to May 1975.
Read more
Favorite 
0
Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’
Practitioner:
Eugene Jarecki
Date:
May 6 2020
Donald Trump has been accused of personally causing the deaths of 40,000 Americans through his “reckless” handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new website launched on Wednesday under the provocative title Trump Death Clock.
Read more
Favorite 
1
Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
Practitioner:
Brazilian Government
Date:
Jan 23 2013
BRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. "In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy," Culture Minister Marta Suplicy said in an interview on national television.
Read more
Favorite 
0
Hip Hop Caucus
Practitioner:
Hip Hop Caucus
Date:
Sep 1 2004
MISSION The mission of the Hip Hop Caucus is to organize young people to be active in elections, policymaking and service projects. We mobilize, educate, and engage young people, ages 14 to 40, on the social, issues that directly impact their lives and communities. COMPANY OVERVIEW
Read more
Favorite 
0
Howitcouldbedifferent.org - a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Practitioner:
Hicbd
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? Howitcouldbedifferent.org was founded for these purposes - to enable people to easily see, share, and suggest ideas in different categories.
Read more
Favorite 
0
REDACT: a world without net neutrality
Practitioner:
Alexander Coury
Date:
Apr 25 2018
The elimination of Net Neutrality is a much bigger issue than most people would like to admit. This issue stems far from just an issue dealing with an open internet, free from biased control of the internet service providers, whom which we rely on.
Read more
Favorite 
3
Actipedia

Creative tactics that help bring about change. Browse around or visit our favorite actions. Then join us!

About & How To
Submit a New Project
Create a Gallery

Follow Us On