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"Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?"
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Sep 10 1989
National Museum of Women In the Arts: To maintain their anonymity, group members wear gorilla masks in public and adopt the names of historic women artists, such as Käthe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, as pseudonyms.
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Cultural Diplomacy through Food: Olia Hercules and Razom's Culinary Journey in Louisiana
Practitioner:
Razom for Ukraine
Date:
Mar 27 2025
Food transcends language—it brings people together, bridges cultures, and tells stories words cannot. In early March, the Razom Advocacy team, alongside renowned Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules, embarked on a journey through Louisiana—visiting Shreveport and New Orleans—to foster connections, celebrate Ukrainian culture, express gratitude to local first responders, and advocate for Ukraine.
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Do Not Pass Go: Monopolize Bank of America
Practitioner:
MicCheckWallSt
Date:
Jul 14 2012
(Taken from Group's Event Statement): "The big banks have been playing monopoly with our money & our homes. On Saturday July 14th, as part of #J20 Bring the Fight Back to the Banks Week, let's return the favor..."
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One Dress Protest
Practitioner:
Kristy Powell
Date:
Jan 3 2011
Independent blogger, Kristy Powell, decided to begin a digital action, beginning on January 3rd, 2011 and ending on January 3rd, 2012, where she would wear one dress for an entire year to call attention to the politics of fashion's dominance over our quotidian lives and relationships with our own bodies.
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"Get Out"
Practitioner:
Jordan Peele
Date:
Feb 24 2017
Jordan Peele discovered halfway through the making of “Get Out” what story he wanted to tell: A horror-thriller for black audiences that delivered a searing satirical critique of systemic racism.
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The Universe in Verse
Practitioner:
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Community, Artists, writers, scientists, and musicians
Date:
Apr 28 2018
“The real wealth of the Nation,” marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in her courageous 1953 protest letter, “lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.” Carson’s legacy inspired the creation of Earth Day and the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose hard-won environmental regulations are now being undone in the
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1
Graffiti on Garbage
Practitioner:
Daku
Date:
Apr 10 2014
Delhi- based graffiti artist who goes by the name Daku went around South Delhi, one of the poshest places in the city, and painted on overflowing garbage cans.
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Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet - Artists Space
Practitioner:
Tiffany Sia
Date:
Feb 17 2021
Slippery When Wet proposes a wet ontology of Hong Kong—a city in ongoing transfiguration shifting into an uncanny vision of itself. Hong Kong secretes, leaving a trail of ink, tears, humidity, logistic flows, and leaks.
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Polylogues
Practitioner:
Xandra Clark
Date:
Nov 1 2018
Journalist and playwright Xandra Clark began creating Polylogues, a one woman show exploring non-monogamy, in 2017. The show is created from interviews Clark conducts around the world with people of different ages, genders, and races about their relationship with non-monogamy or polyamory (hence the name of the performance Polylogues).
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Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God's Plan to Schools in Impoverished Areas
Practitioner:
Drake
Date:
Feb 16 2018
Drake has released an emotional video for "God's Plan" in which he donates the music video budget to people in need. Shot in Miami and directed by Toronto's Karena Evans and Jordan Oram, the video features a bunch of generous, grand gestures.
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Television Commercial for Communism
Practitioner:
The Propeller Group
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Television Commercial for Communism: https://vimeo.com/129592556
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ItCouldHappenToAnyone.com
Practitioner:
Agitpop
Date:
Oct 9 2009
The Battle for Healthcare Agitpop joined Dawn Smith and MoveOn.org in taking on Dawn’s insurer to get the care she needs and reform our broken health care system. They traveled from Atlanta to Philidelphia to share her story and bring the voice of thousands of American’s to Cigna’s doorstep.
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Rubber Tracks
Practitioner:
Converse
Date:
Jul 13 2011
Converse Rubber Tracks is a global community of professional recording studios, which provides free studio time to emerging artists. Bands and artists record without any fee whatsoever and maintain all the rights to their music.
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Barbed Wire Protest
Practitioner:
Petr Pavlensky
Date:
May 2 2013
In May, 2013, Russian performance artist Petr Pavlovsky wrapped his body, nude, in barbed wire and lay outside the St. Petersburg legislative assembly. The act was in protest of restrictions imposed on freedom of speech and assembly. Police officers were forced to attempt to disengage him from the wire. After medical officials also arrived, Pavlovsky refused to be taken to the hospital and was brought to jail, where he was held for several weeks.
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Anthem From the Iranian Protests
Practitioner:
Shervin Hajipour
Date:
Sep 27 2022
On September 27, 2022, a song by Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour ‘broke’ Persian social media. Hajipour posted a video on Instagram of himself singing a song for the mass protests that began in Iran following the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini. Its lyrics were composed of tweets from members of the Iranian Twittersphere explaining what the protests meant to them, what they were fighting for and what was at stake with the hashtag #برای (for the sake of).
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15 Years to Life
Practitioner:
Anthony Papa
Date:
Mar 4 2000
Anthony Papa was arrested for a drug crime and with no prior offenses was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for violating New York's harsh drug laws. While in prison, Papa began to document his inner struggles via painting and ultimately earned a pardon from New York governor and has gone on to actively fight the drug war in his years since release.
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Es-Cultura Lesbiana
Practitioner:
Lesbianas Sin Duda (LSD)
Date:
Jun 1 1995
As a result of the social stigma of homosexuality, lesbian feminists were rejected and silenced as a radical minority within the mainstream Movimiento Feminista (MF). Lesbianas Sin Duda (LSD) is a queer activist group based in Madrid that arose in the early 1990s as a response to this erasure.
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Jiangshanjiao, do they talk to you like this?
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Date:
May 9 2020
On Feb 17, 2020, the official account of The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League on Weibo announced the launch of its virtual idols "Hongqiman" and "Jiangshanjiao", and set up a new official microblog, and called on people to "come and support the League Idols".
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SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACE
Practitioner:
Social Impact Media Awards
Date:
Apr 1 2018
One film to change the world. Curated every month. BURDEN OF PEACE follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. Throughout April 2018 a global audience came together to watch BURDEN OF PEACE, and to dig deep into the issues of women in power with our action kit, bonus features and Impact Talks podcast.
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Nail Transphobia
Practitioner:
Charlie Craggs
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Over the past few years, the public’s understanding of the issues that transgender people face has grown exponentially, but many people have never actually spoken to a transgender person.
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