Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals

These projects all have short-term goals. Ideally each contributes to a campaign with a clear, well-defined path to a goal. Ideally, there are targets—people, institutions—that the project (and/or campaign) pressures and which, if pressured, can help achieve the goal.
Coronavirus: Activists launch ‘digital protest’ to end US sanctions on Iran
Practitioner:
Iranian Activists
Date:
Mar 25 2020

Activists have started an online campaign to pressure US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to lift sanctions on Iran to help it contain the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus: Are US sanctions hurting Iran's response to the pandemic?

Ghen Cô Vy / Corona Hand Washing Song
Practitioner:
Khac Hung, Min x Erik, Vietnam Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health
Date:
Mar 1 2020

'Jealousy Ms. Vy' is a creative project of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, in collaboration with musician Khac Hung, singer Min and singer Erik.

Through this project, we look forward to empowering and trusting the community, so that we can join hands to combat COVID-19 (aka nCoV-2019).

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.

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.

Climate activists painted murals on two blocks of San Francisco streets
Practitioner:
Sunrise Movement, Idle No More and Bay Area climate movement organizations
Date:
Sep 26 2019

Climate activists took to the streets in San Francisco and painted murals directly on two blocks of the city Financial District's main thoroughfare.

#NoFutureNoChildren
Practitioner:
Emma Lim
Date:
Sep 16 2019

As leaders across the world are getting ready to gather together to discuss climate change—and what to do about it—at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York next week, hundreds of young people across the world are going on birth strike to pressure policymakers into action.

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