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Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s Day
Practitioner:
12 female artists
Date:
Mar 8 2018
Google is honoring female artists and their stories this International Women’s Day. On Thursday, the tech company will feature 12 interactive illustrations or “Google Doodles” on the search platform’s homepage. The artists are from 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan, Pakistan and Mexico.
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Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid
Practitioner:
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid
Date:
May 15 2011
Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid The Orquesta Solfónica de Madrid (Solphonic Orchestra of Madrid) is a self-organized orchestra that was formed in the context of the social movement 15M and that has gained popularity for playing classical music in demonstrations and acts of social protest.
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I've Got Nothing To Say
Practitioner:
Anonymous Girl in China
Date:
Feb 23 2024
Feb 23 2024, on the streets in Henan, China, a girl holds a big sign with the black text "I've got nothing to say" on a white background, walking around in city center and malls. She live-streamed her walk and her account was banned after a few hours.
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RED CARD TO VIOLENCE Juventus and Serie A stars have red marks on face in campaign to stop domestic violence against women
Practitioner:
Juventus, WeWorld Onlus, Lega Serie A
Date:
Nov 23 2020
SERIE A players are once again doing their bit to raise awareness for a campaign against violence to women. They have teamed up with Italian organisation WeWorld Onlus, and will promote the cause at all ten Serie A matches this weekend. Players will have red stripes on their cheeks as they play their matches. The striking look seeks to promote WeWorldOnlus' Red Card to Violence campaign.
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Documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico
Practitioner:
Gabriel Miranda
Date:
May 13 2017
Puerto Rico doesn’t know what’s going on here, and if they do, they’re ignoring us.” So opens Gabriel Miranda’s documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico. Focused on the coastal community of Vietnam, which is located in the Guaynabo, the doc tells the story of a disenfranchised population being displaced over the past two decades to make room for a glitzy new waterfront development.
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Guerrilla gardening?
Practitioner:
Artists Agnes Dene, Alan Sonfist, Rufus Chaney, Occupy Wall Street
Date:
Nov 30 1959
Plants growing through urban cracks and concrete remind us of the power of nature. Whether its a tree or a blade of grass pushing its way through cement, an underlying chaos( or natural order) lives just beneath the surface of physical and mental organizational structures created by man.
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Pandas on Tour
Practitioner:
Paulo Grangeon
Date:
Jul 1 2008
Grangeon's long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600 papier-mâché pandas. That's approximately one for as many as there are left in the world (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1596).
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#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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Salvage Supperclub
Practitioner:
Josh Treuhaft
Date:
Jul 17 2014
Last month, a graduate student by the name of Josh Treuhaft set up the Salvage Supperclub in New York City—an establishment where diners pay US$50 to eat a six course meal made from food scraps salvaged from the dumpster. Chefs from the Natural Gourmet Institute created dishes using overripe fruits and vegetables that would normally be thrown away, calling into question what we perceive as waste. By Thia Shi Min Design Taxi
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Wheel of Misfortune
Practitioner:
Civic Party
Date:
Jan 27 2017
Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year fairs draw thousands of visitors who stroll past stalls of potted narcissus, snack on fish balls and snap up the latest plush toys. In recent years, the largest of the fairs, at Victoria Park, has also become a prime site for political expression.
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Raising Awareness of Migration and COVID 19 through Graffiti and Street Art in Accra
Practitioner:
Ghana Graffiti Collective, Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Date:
May 29 2020
In a bid to fight the spread of COVID-19, the EU Delegation to Ghana on Wednesday 27 May joined the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and artists from the Ghana Graffiti Collective, to launch an initiative to use street art and graffiti to create awareness about coronavirus and migration. The artwork created by the Ghana Graffiti collective speak about hope, tolerance, love and solidarity.
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The Black Cinema House
Practitioner:
Theaster Gates
Date:
Oct 2 2013
Black Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories.
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Singing Disrupts Oil Auction
Practitioner:
Feminist Economics
Date:
Feb 22 2016
Utah environmentalists infiltrated a federal oil-and-gas lease auction and refused to stop singing until they were escorted out.
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Corporations Ain't People
Practitioner:
Backbone Campaign
Date:
Sep 14 2010
Corporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest 
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Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet Earth
Practitioner:
Cannabis friends, Cannabis Social clubs, cannabis activists
Date:
May 4 2013
Message to the world. We are legalizing CANNABIS everywhere in the world, please support us. We are making PICTURES showing us as cannabis smokers or growers, and supporting the legalization. In France, the movement becomes bigger and bigger, check this public profile of a french leader of the CANNABIS SOCIAL CLUBS to see how it looks : https://www.facebook.com/dominique.broc
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People's History Markers
Practitioner:
The Howling Mob Society
Date:
Jan 1 2010
The Howling Mob Society has created ten historical markers representing history from the perspective of the working class. In particular, these markers detail events and significant locations from the Great Strike of 1877 - a historical event in Pittsburgh's labor history that ignited a popular uprising of workingmen, families, and neighbors alike as citizens stopped train services, burned railroad
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"RE.ACTIVIUM SILVESTRE"
Practitioner:
Re.Colectivo Association, Yetooponese Association, Masta Platform
Date:
Feb 14 2014
COLLABORATIVE LABORATORY FOR ANALYZE PASSIVE ATTITUDES AND CREATIVE STRATEGIES OF ACTIVATION. 14-15-16 February 2014 Meeting to discuss experiences and reflect on the concept of creativity as a tool for transformation.
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Faces of the Movement
Practitioner:
Faces of the Movement
Date:
Feb 12 2015
Faces of the Movement is a daily-release photo project that highlights the stories of everyday people who have joined together to fight for justice against police brutality in the United States.
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Inside the house that Theaster built
Practitioner:
Theaster Gates
Date:
Sep 6 2012
Inside the house that Theaster built Rising art star and activist Theaster Gates is transforming his neighbourhood, one building at a time
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12 year old bride in Times Square
Practitioner:
Cody Persin
Date:
Feb 24 2016
In order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old 'bride' to pose with a 65-year-old 'groom' in the middle of Times Square. Child marriage is not only legal in 91 countries around the world, but even continues to be legal in the United States - with some having a cut off as low as 12 years of age.
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