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Faiz
Practitioner:
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Date:
Feb 13 1911
Faiz | Hum Dekhenge | BolFaiz Ahmed
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The artist behind ‘Fearless Girl’ wants to spread her message far and wide. A lawsuit is getting in the way
Practitioner:
Kristen Visbal, CNN
Date:
Feb 17 2022
CNN — Five years after first appearing on the cobblestones of Wall Street, the “Fearless Girl” statue – a petite but controversial symbol for gender equality – is taking on a new digital form.
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Protesters with fake blood, baby dolls and shackles picket Supreme Court justice’s home
Practitioner:
Pro-Choice Activists
Date:
Jun 20 2022
Pro-choice activists protested outside Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home on Saturday ahead of the apex court’s decision on a landmark case constitutionally protecting a woman’s right to safe abortion. The activists, part of a group called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, donned clothes soaked in fake blood, held baby dolls and carried signs with slogans such as “Abortion on demand and without apology”.
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Big Tech CEOs Become 7ft Capitol Rioters
Practitioner:
Sum Of Us
Date:
Mar 25 2021
As tech leaders faced tough questions from Congress, SumOfUs, an 18 million member advocacy organization, was right outside with a larger-than-life installation of the January 6th Capitol riot that shows the role Big Tech played in sparking the insurrection.
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Circus Amok
Practitioner:
Jennifer Miller
Date:
Jan 1 1989
Circus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City.
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Trek the Vote
Practitioner:
Trek the Vote
Date:
Nov 5 2024
We are a grassroots movement of Star Trek fans volunteering with non-partisan, pro-democracy groups nationwide. Our team of thousands of "Starfleet officers" volunteer with our partner organizations to support voting rights, improve election transparency, and help elections administrators meet their staffing needs.
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Lady Gaga's Meat dress
Practitioner:
Lady Gaga
Date:
Sep 12 2010
Lady Gaga showed up to the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards wearing a dress made out of raw meat. She claimed that the dress showed her disgust towards the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, but missed the media opportunity to clearly string her thoughts together.
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#1000BlackGirlBooks
Practitioner:
Marley Dias
Date:
Jan 25 2016
From Jezebel: Marley Dias is an 11-year-old New Jersey resident who’s rounding up children’s books that feature black female leads so that she and her peers have more fictional characters to look up to. The project, titled #1000BlackGirlBooks, started when Marley complained to her mother about reading too many books about white male protagonists in school.
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Leaving the Googleplex
Practitioner:
Andrew Norman Wilson
Date:
Jan 1 2009
"Ex Google employee Andrew Norman Wilson’s video Workers Leaving the Googleplex investigates the marginalized class of Google Books’ "ScanOps" workers at their international headquarters in Silicon Valley while simultaneously chronicling the complex events surrounding his own dismissal from the company."
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Burkaphilia
Practitioner:
Behnaz Babazadeh
Date:
Jun 1 2012
When Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d grown used to wearing as part of her school uniform in her old home.
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Kiss-in protest after lesbian couple told they were 'disgusting'
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Oct 15 2014
As the crowd surged indoors shortly before 6.30pm, Luke Wassell and Lewis Jones found themselves in the vegetable aisle, wedged between the sweet potatoes and the bags of spinach. Though both are gay, they are friends rather than partners, and so “I guess I’ll have to kiss a vegetable,” said Wassell, glancing around him for a suitable candidate. “We’re definitely supposed to kiss something.”
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Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of art
Practitioner:
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Date:
Jun 28 2018
It all started a few months ago, when the Minneapolis Institute of Art got a phone call from Valerie Castile. Castile is the mother of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a police officer in 2016. Valerie Castile has since founded the Philando Castile Relief Foundation, which helps victims of gun violence.
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The Indebted States of America
Practitioner:
Eric Leppanen - EALART
Date:
Nov 2 2011
With past government shut downs and teetering the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling now eliminated, credit line increase after credit line increase? I thought my timely art piece may be interesting for your viewers and spark healthy/heated discussion.
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ISIS-chan : Anime nerds' efforts to influence online search results for ISIS-related messages
Practitioner:
Anime fans from Japan and around the world
Date:
Jan 24 2015
Her name is ISIS-chan. And she's how nerds around the world are trying to silence violent ISIS terrorist propaganda. It starts with the vibrant worldwide community that loves Japanese anime. Some of them have created a cute animated character as a sort of ISIS mascot. The goal? Hijack the terrorist group's message and replace it with a girl that's oh-so-adorable.
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Occupy Barbie Dream-House
Practitioner:
Linksjugend [solid] Berlin Kreuzkölln
Date:
May 16 2013
We at "Left Youth ['solid] Kreuzkölln" have been around long enough of this policy and its lousy consequences for us. But how to solve the problem now? The problem is clearly the capitalist society for us. Even at school you will be prepared for competition and profit motive. We say: Stop it! The manifesto: Barbie Dream House in Berlin? Not with us!
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In/on The Way: Story Time
Practitioner:
SKART
Date:
Oct 12 2017
"Story Time" emphasizes the significance of knowing the cultural histories of various nations and milieus, for it is precisely this knowledge that represents the first common point on the way towards understanding other cultures arriving in Europe with migratory flows. The invited artists will reinterpret cultural histories and cultural contexts from both European and Arabic worlds.
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I Am My White Ancestors: Claiming the Legacy of Oppression
Practitioner:
Anne Mavor
Date:
Oct 6 2016
This installation of 13 photographic self-portraits explores European-American heritage, my family and their role in the history of racism, colonization, genocide, and classism. The ancestors, real and imagined, span over 2000 years from the Celtic Iron Age to the present day. The life size portraits are accompanied by audio diaries from the perspective of each character.
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Lambrakis LivZ
Practitioner:
Stefanos Mondelos, Spyros Zoupanos, Nafsika Tzanou
Date:
Oct 20 2012
The performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece.
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The Hate You Give
Practitioner:
Angie Thomas
Date:
Feb 28 2017
‘The Hate U Give’: A modern wakeup call to subtle racism By Nevin Thombre Aug. 27, 2020, 6:49 p.m.
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Two Climate Protesters Scribble Ink on Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Prints at National Gallery of Australia
Practitioner:
A22 Network
Date:
Nov 8 2022
Two climate activists scrawled blue ink across a series of Andy Warhol screen prints at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia this week to raise awareness of the country’s fossil fuel subsidies. Images and video of the protest posted to social media show the two activists also trying to glue their hands to the famous print series titled Campbell’s Soup I, which is framed and under glass.
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