Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe and Brent Richardson
Date:
Jul 1 2020
#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Pandemic Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention Website: https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/ For more information: Joseph DeLappe artist/activist – j.delappe@abertay.ac.uk Brent Richardson media artist – brent@BrentRich.com Let’s mask the presidents!
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Horas por la educación, Hours for education
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jun 13 2011
Chilean students ran for 1,800 consecutive hours around Chile's presidential palace, La Moneda, from June 13 to August 27, 2011 to protest the cost of education. The 1,800 hours stand for the 1,800,000,000 Chilean pesos, or approximately US$4 million which would cover the cost of higher education for 300,000 students. They carried Chilean flags and signs with "Free Education Now" written on them.
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GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Practitioner:
GULF, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction
Date:
Feb 22 2014
Last night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours.
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Racy offer
Practitioner:
Charlotte Roche
Date:
Nov 14 2010
Protests continue at Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility Demonstrations against the German government's nuclear power policy continued as protesters marched near the Gorleben waste storage site. But one provocative author came up with a racier way to block a nuclear power law. Protestors near Gorleben Protests near Gorleben have died down but not stopped
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Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive country
Practitioner:
Demonstrators in Myanmar
Date:
Apr 2 2021
Opponents of military rule in Myanmar have marched, observed "flower strikes" and sought alternative ways to communicate after most users were cut off from the internet, undaunted by the bloody suppression of protests during the past two months.
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Basta Dobbs
Practitioner:
Presente.org
Date:
Apr 1 2009
CNN calls itself "The Most Trusted Name in News," but for years they provided a platform for Lou Dobbs to spread dangerous myths about immigrants and use dehumanizing and disrespectful language towards the Latino community. In 2009 Presente.org fought back, spearheading a multi-stage, national campaign with dozens of partners demanding that CNN remove Dobbs.
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Lebanon’s migrant domestic workers demand equal rights
Practitioner:
domestic workers
Date:
May 5 2012
There are over 200,000 migrant domestic workers living in Lebanon today — a large number when you considered that Lebanon’s population is only a little over 4 million. Most migrant workers live with their Lebanese employers, cleaning their houses, washing their clothes, cooking their food and looking after their children. Yet these workers are not included under Lebanon’s labor laws — they are not entitled to
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Ridiculously Rich for Rove
Practitioner:
Act Everywhere
Date:
Dec 3 2009
In 2009, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Karl Rove to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many groups of activists responded.
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COUNTERSPACE
Practitioner:
Cristina Morales
Date:
Aug 1 1919
Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired ‘social sculpture’ revisited, and an alternative map of the universe.
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Practitioner:
Art Not Oil UK
Date:
Apr 3 2016
On Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a 'disobedient exhibition'. Called 'A History of BP in 10 Objects', the exhibition featured artifacts submitted by frontline communities around the world who are fighting back against the impacts of BP's operations.
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#MyNameIs
Practitioner:
Sister Roma
Date:
Oct 1 2014
Facebook came under fire when its authentic-name policy led to San Francisco drag queen Sister Roma and others being barred from the social network. The policy allows users to report people they believe are using fake names. This caused a stir when a group of drag performers suddenly found that their Facebook accounts had been deactivated. Among them was Sister Roma, who had not registered on the site under her legal name, Michael Williams.
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Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest
Practitioner:
Lebanese Activists
Date:
Apr 22 2017
Activists campaigning to change Lebanon's law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut's famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law currently allows a rapist to be exonerated if he marries his victim. The activists are pressing to have the legislation abolished at an upcoming session of parliament.
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Discongreso
Practitioner:
Enmedio
Date:
Sep 25 2012
"Surround Congress”: as soon as we’d heard this, in our minds we were there. To make the Government resign and demand they start a new constituent process seemed like a great idea. We immediately got to work.
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All Eyes on 'Sparrow': Documenting the Dangers of Activism in China
Practitioner:
Nanfu Wang/ Haiyan Ye
Date:
May 1 2013
Nanfu Wang feels safe in New York. Surveillance, that essential preoccupation of the documentarian in America, is a chokehold from which she has been temporarily released. From her Brooklyn apartment, the Chinese filmmaker prepares for the release of her debut feature documentary, Hooligan Sparrow.
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Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilization
Practitioner:
n/a
Date:
Mar 11 2016
Thousands took to the streets in Lima, Peru, on March 11 to protest conservative presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and demand that her candidacy be revoked amid accusations of vote buying.
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The masked artist protesters in a polluted city of China
Practitioner:
Artists in Chengdu
Date:
Nov 11 2016
In the south-western city of Chengdu, by all accounts a city on the edge coping with heavy pollution but also with authorities scrambling to put a lid on simmering discontent. That night police detained a number of artists who managed to stage a silent demonstration, while wearing face masks.
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Hundreds Gather at Utah Capitol in Protest of New Transgender Rights Related Bills
Practitioner:
House Health and Human Services Committee, Equality Utah, Human Rights Commission, American Civil Liberties Union
Date:
Jan 25 2022
Lawmakers in a Utah House committee soundly rejected a bill that would have penalized doctors for giving gender-affirming health care to minors, then moments later approved legislation that included similar restrictions on transgender health care — minus the punishment — on party line during a lengthy committee meeting Tuesday.
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How about taking your favourite banker (and politician) to jail?
Practitioner:
Xnet
Date:
May 16 2012
The Spanish 15M/INDIGNADOS social movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, creatively transforming the prevailing participation and action patterns in its society.
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LGBTQ Marriage Matching in China
Practitioner:
PFLAG in China and Rela
Date:
May 20 2017
Sixth Tone - "A group of women trying to raise awareness of LGBT rights by advertising their single, gay sons and daughters at Shanghai’s “marriage market” were forced to disperse after a heated confrontation with other parents and security personnel.The so-called “marriage market” at Shanghai’s centrally located People’s Park draws a large crowd of parents who post signs each weekend describing their children in an effort to find a suitable partne
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Operation Schildkröte
Practitioner:
Occupy Dusseldorf
Date:
Mar 17 2012
Occupy Dusseldorf was inspired by an editorial cartoonfrom Brooklyn, New York based artist Mark Hurwitt tocreate an imaginative street theatre performance artprotest action. They marched with hundreds of medievalshields created out of enlargements of Hurwitt's arttranslated into many languages forming a giant turtle
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Avatar in Bil'in
Practitioner:
Palestinian and Israeli activists
Date:
Feb 10 2010
Bil'in is a Palestinian village located 12 kilometres west of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank. In 2005, the Israeli government began constructing the security barrier in the Bil’in area, and since then approximately 55 percent of Bil’in’s former land has been used for the construction of the Modi’in Illit settlement.
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Change the Ref Organisation Campaign Puts Children at the Heart of Warzone's
Practitioner:
Change The Ref
Date:
Apr 11 2023
Energy BBDO launches its latest activation on behalf of Change The Ref, a leading gun-control organisation which was formed to empower our Future Leaders. The activation, ‘New Recruits’ is Change the Refs latest effort to ignite a movement to ban ‘weapons of war’. The event took place last Saturday in Montclair NJ and was hosted by Manuel and Patricia Oliver.
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Las Carpetas
Practitioner:
CHRISTOPHER GREGORY-RIVERA
Date:
Jan 14 2021
"Las Carpetas looks at the bureaucratic residue of a 40-year-long secret surveillance program that aimed to destroy the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Through still-lives, archival appropriation, and investigation, Christopher Gregory-Rivera provides a counter-history to the way many understand this period of time and its aftermath.
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After their slogan was outlawed, pro-Palestinian activists turned to a karaoke classic
Practitioner:
Pro Palestinian Activists
Date:
Apr 26 2026
Brisbane, Australia — The flash mob descended on Brisbane’s city square, wearing double denim and blond wigs in the style of a legendary Australian singer as they danced with wild abandon to one of his 1980s hits.
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Practitioner:
Georgian Artists
Date:
Mar 1 2023
The Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons at crowds waving European Union flags, and say they plan to continue the battle despite the government backing down from the legislation.
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