Projects tagged "Provides (a useful service)"

Provides a useful social service.

City Forest Mural
Practitioner:
Aretha Brown Amplify, Converse
Date:
Apr 8 2021
The sneaker brand Converse has commissioned an indigenous artist in Australia to create a gigantic mural with a surprising twist. The Melbourne mural plays homage to indigenous urban identity and was painted with a special type of pollution-absorbing paint that “cleans the air,” according to the agency behind the project, Amplify.
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Humor to overthrow Mubarak
Practitioner:
Egyptian revolutionaries
Date:
Feb 23 2011
from "Laugh, O Revolution: Humor in the Egyptian Uprising" by Anna Louie Sussman, in 2011. Revolutions can be messy. They can be tragic. As long as the Internet is working, they can be tweeted. And, as Egyptians demonstrated during their 18 days of protest, they can also be funny.
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Freedom riders
Practitioner:
Hundreds
Date:
May 4 1961
The first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren't invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC southwards primarily in order to wait, together, in waiting rooms that were still unconstitutionally segregated.
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Huntsville Fighting Covid
Practitioner:
Smarter Every Day
Date:
Apr 7 2020
Destin from the Youtube channel Smarter Every Day has started the "Hunstville Fighting Covid" website in order to mobilize and teach those who have 3D printers how to print Personal Protective Equipment to aid medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
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ACT UP protests
Practitioner:
ACT UP
Date:
Jan 15 1987
In 1987 with AIDS deaths in the thousands and government policy still criminally indifferent, activists formed ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) with the purpose of turning grief and fear into rage and action. 
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José Bové dismantles a McDonald's
Practitioner:
Andreja Kulunčić, Ahmet Ögüt
Date:
Aug 12 1999
José Bové, a sheep farmer/activist in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, is a modern day Astérix, a mythical Gaul who drubbed foreign intruders centuries ago. In Bové's case, the intruder was McDonald's, the American fast food chain.
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Firefly Project: How to Send Feminine Hygiene Products to Female Health Care Workers When They are Fighting against Coronavirus
Practitioner:
BIE别的女孩, 孙百卉
Date:
Feb 17 2020
One of the donators, Sun Baihui, wrote her in-person experience when she participated in the project, which is translated from Chinese and abridged from the original text. Preface On February 7, Weibo blogger @ Liang Yu Stacey released a message on Weibo calling for attention to the shortage of feminine hygiene products for female medical staff, and "overnight comfort absorbency," began to enter the public eye.
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Sister Activism: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Practitioner:
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Date:
Jan 9 2014
If you've been to a Bay Area protest or community event, you've probably seen -- or even met those nuns in whiteface -- The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Devoted to human rights globally and locally, AIDS education, and respect for diversity, this controversial Order of Queer Nuns has long been a staple of San Francisco's cultural fabric. They join host Joseph Pace for the hour. Guests:
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ScareMail
Practitioner:
Benjamin Grosser
Date:
Jan 1 2013
ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense.
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Ghana Wins Election 2016
Practitioner:
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Rebecca Ekpe etc.
Date:
Dec 1 2016
An exercise that used drama/and audio visuals to engage with with all election partners, especially the political parties especially the political parties and their candidates/leaders, Electoral Commission, Musicians Association of Ghana, etc to push for a free, fair and peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary election and hand over of power to who ever won the elections peacefully.
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Dead Dove Publishing
Practitioner:
ArmoredSuperHeavy
Date:
May 5 2021
User @ArmoredSuperHeavy on Twitter recently posted a master document detailing their explorations into bookbinding, fanfiction preservation, and the online gift economy. Their bookbinding venture, named Dead Dove Publishing, is a project that seeks to preserve and legitimize fanworks and celebrate the fandom gift economy. The document explains their actions and the work they have done since they began two years ago.
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Some Good News
Practitioner:
John Krasinski
Date:
Mar 29 2020
SomeGoodNews is a Youtube channel started by actor John Krasinski. The videos in the channels are aimed at discussing and sharing good news happening these days. The channel was set up as a way to help alleviate the mental health strain the COVID-19 epidemic has had on many people.
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K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas Police
Practitioner:
K-Pop Fans
Date:
Jun 5 2020
If you’ve spent a decent amount of time on Twitter, you’re probably familiar with the concept of K-pop fancams. The short clips of live performances, primarily by South Korean acts, often dominate replies on the app and are hated by many. This week, however, the social phenomenon has taken over in a different way: to fight for the rights of Black Lives Matter protesters seeking justice after the death of George Floyd.
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Tamms Year Ten
Practitioner:
Indecline Artist Collective
Date:
Jan 4 2013
Tamms Year Ten is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition of artists, prisoners, men formerly incarcerated in Tamms, family members and other people of conscience. In 2008, at the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Tamms supermax prison, the group launched a legislative campaign to call for its reform or closure. Men were originally supposed to be there for one year—but at that point 1/3 of them had been in solitary confinement the entire decade.
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Virtual Museum Law Conference on the Pandemic Effects
Practitioner:
Work from home Lawyers
Date:
Mar 15 2021
"Work-from-home lawyers and museum staff convened by webinar on 11 and 12 March, for an annual conference on Legal Issues in Museum Administration, hosted by the non-profit American Law Institute with the support of the Smithsonian Institution. This year’s focus was decidedly shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has squeezed museums financially and pushed ever more museum activity into the digital realm.
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Emergency Fund for Trans Community Amid COVID-19
Practitioner:
LGBT Center Intercultural Collective Inc and Lorena Borjas Community Fund
Date:
Mar 17 2020
During the current COVID-19 outbreak in New York, many transgender people are experiencing a loss of income that, over the next few days, may increase dramatically.
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Platforms Fight Back Against Coronavirus Misinformation
Practitioner:
Facebook, TikTok, WHO
Date:
Mar 5 2020
On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that the platform is working to remove coronavirus conspiracy theories and elevate information from credible organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and UNICEF.
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Tiny Homes for Toronto’s Homeless
Practitioner:
Khaleel Seivwright
Date:
Apr 17 2020
On his way to work on a construction site, Khaleel Seivwright surveyed the growing number of tents lining an intercity highway and in parks with increasing discomfort. How would these people survive Toronto’s damp, frigid winters, let alone the coronavirus, which had pushed so many out of overcrowded shelters? He remembered the little shanty he had once built out of scrap wood while living on a commune in British Columbia.
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Police Shot Her Brother. Now She's Fighting for Justice.
Practitioner:
Shackelia Jackson
Date:
Jan 20 2014
Police in Jamaica kill three people a week with impunity. But one woman, Shackelia Jackson, is determined to get justice for her murdered brother. Shackelia Jackson’s email signature reads, “Broken, not Destroyed.” After her brother Nakiea was shot by police in 2014, Jackson has spent years fighting for justice for him and other victims of extra-judicial killings.
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Experimental Wall #27
Practitioner:
La Fiambrera
Date:
Jun 1 1999
This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions, either neighbors or from the same Peña Bética in front of them, they had given by the City Council, but without results. And every day having to go all the way through that gorge with two
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With #FrontlineHouses, a Phoenix Nurse Is Connecting Hospital Workers With Housing
Practitioner:
Jason Odhner
Date:
Mar 17 2020
A 43-year-old ICU nurse, Jason Odhner is, as one might imagine, awfully busy these days. He works at several local hospitals, is the co-founder of a health-justice nonprofit called Phoenix Allies for Community Health, and he recently started an initiative called #FrontlineHouses, which is connecting health care workers with housing during the coronavirus pandemic.
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#Protect Girls Project -- Anti-surrogacy Stickers
Practitioner:
粉打PINKPUNCH
Date:
Jan 19 2021
Many girls in China may have seen the advertisements of egg donation as a surrogate, in hospitals, schools, public toilets, shared bikes, ATMs...... They are everywhere and the number of this kind of advertisements is large. Though there are lots of girls who have never seen such advertisements or would never believe in them, there would still be some girls who would dial the numbers on the advertisements.
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“Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic”
Practitioner:
Dancing Through Prison Walls
Date:
Mar 24 2021
“Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic” features six dances written inside a prison, a 35-minute dance film, and 11 artists (seven choreographic interpreters and four formerly incarcerated narrators) conversing on dancing in carceral spaces.
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Free Breakfast Program for Children
Practitioner:
Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Date:
Aug 11 1968
The Free Breakfast for School Children Program was initiated at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland by the Black Panther Party. The Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio
Practitioner:
Ricardo Levins Morales
Date:
Jun 1 2009
Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born into the anti-colonial movement in Puerto Rico, and when his family moved to Chicago in 1967, he became interested in activism. After leaving high school early, he worked in various industries and began to use art as part of his activism work.
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