Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells Fargo
Practitioner:
Occupy Our Homes
Date:
Apr 29 2014
On the eve of Wells Fargo’s annual shareholders meeting in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday, home defenders, students, community groups, and activists in ten cities took peaceful action against the bank. Petitions signed by thousands of people were delivered to Wells Fargo branches and offices across the country calling on CEO John Stumpf to change the bank’s predatory practices.
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Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan
Practitioner:
Rafael Acevedo, Puerto Rican citizens
Date:
Jun 1 2018
Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a growing memorial to the roughly 4,645 people estimated to have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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Two young Black Chicago women are using art and activism to change narratives about Black communities
Practitioner:
Another Life
Date:
Jul 31 2017
Both Johnson and Lewis recognize that the personal is political, and vice versa. By making connections between storytelling and activism, the two young women are using creative approaches to achieving justice and equity.
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Ticketing Jessica Lappin
Practitioner:
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Date:
Jun 16 2010
The initiators collaborated with the Street Vendor Project (SVP) of the Urban Justice Center to campaign against New York City Council Member Jessica Lappin’s 2010 law project. The bill, intended to revoke permits issued to street vendor trucks if they got parking tickets, was so restrictive that it threatened to put most food trucks out of business.
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Practitioner:
Art therapists
Date:
Jan 13 2017
We demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence's stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and all people who are in danger as a result of the policies of the current administration.
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Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone
Practitioner:
Chiliean protesters
Date:
Nov 12 2019
A technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn't use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead, they used another form of technology: lasers. A lot of bright green laser beams were pointed in unison at the drone, which can be seen moving erratically, before quickly falling down to Earth.
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Rat Row
Practitioner:
Laborers Local 79
Date:
Jan 7 2025
A fat cat, a pig wearing a top hat and five rats. All seven inflatables faced the 34th Street entrance of the Empire State Building last Thursday, two weeks into a protest by members of Laborers Local 79 who rallied, hundreds strong, in the afternoon shadow of the props.
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Invisible Women - A World Designed for Men
Practitioner:
Caroline Criado Perez
Date:
Mar 7 2019
The problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has drifted recently towards other forms of prejudice, such as transphobia. Unfortunately for women, though, the hoary old problems of discrimination, violence and unpaid labour are still very much with us.
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When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
Jun 22 2020
Three months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest.
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Fossil Free Eugene
Practitioner:
Sunrise Movement
Date:
Mar 20 2021
A group of protestors and organizers from Sunrise Movement, Earth Guardians, 350 Eugene, Cascadia Wildlands and more staged a bike march culminating with a die-in outside of the Northwest Natural Gas headquarters in Eugene, Oregon. The protestors lie on the ground outside the NWN building, beneath tombstones donning the dangers of natural gas.
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Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day Protest
Practitioner:
Extinction Rebellion
Date:
Apr 22 2025
Climate activists took to the iconic “Charging Bull” sculpture in Manhattan’s Financial District on Earth Day today, April 22, to call out Wall Street’s “bullshit” in the face of a worsening environmental crisis — quite literally, by installing a display of fabric feces descending onto a rendering of planet Earth at the rear end of the 11-foot-tall bronze bull.
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Protests continue against Netanyahu's government legal reform plans in Israel
Practitioner:
Israeli Demonstrators
Date:
Feb 5 2023
TEL AVIV Thousands of people took to the streets in Israeli cities Saturday for a fifth straight week to protest the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning proposed judicial reforms. Demonstrators from non-governmental organizations, lawyers, and technology sectors staged the protests/ Police closed roads leading to squares in Tel Aviv during the day and took security measures in the surrounding area.
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Male students walk a mile in red high heels to help stop sexual violence against women
Practitioner:
University of Miami students
Date:
Apr 20 2019
"University of Miami students, mostly male, walked a mile in red high heeled shoes. They are walking a mile in her shoes. The mile long walk was in support of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®, an international men’s march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence. The organization, which says on Facebook that they were founded in 2001, has walks around the world.
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ASCO Collective
Practitioner:
ASCO Collective
Date:
Apr 17 1970
Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it might encompass.
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In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaning
Practitioner:
Robert Samuels
Date:
Mar 29 2012
I was just shy of 18 when I bought the hooded sweatshirt — a metallic silver thing that cost about $10 on the Aeropostale clearance rack — to take with me to Northwestern University in the Chicago suburbs, knowing my parents would be worried when they saw it.
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The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Practitioner:
The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Date:
Jun 6 2019
Disabled people gathered to protest at the site where a memorial to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 is being built. We are keen to have a memorial to Peterloo, but we want one we can be proud of, rather than the one under construction, which will be inaccessible to many disabled people.
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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in 'haunting' photo
Practitioner:
Ai Wei Wei
Date:
Feb 1 2016
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos. His pose was similar to that of Kurdi’s lifeless body, which washed up on a beach near the Turkish town of Bodrum and was captured in a September 2015 photo.
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Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men's Toilets
Practitioner:
Li Maizi
Date:
Jun 25 2014
Women around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies’ restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an “occupy” movement in southern China.
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Gerrymander 5K run and walk
Practitioner:
J.P. & Cinnamon Kennedy
Date:
Nov 4 2017
Runners and walkers planning to take part in a 5K race in Asheville early next month might do better with a compass — a well-tuned political compass, that is.
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Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker Meeting
Practitioner:
Benjamin Lay
Date:
Sep 1 1738
It was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings. He also carried a hollowed-out book with a secret compartment, into which he had tucked a tied-off animal bladder filled with bright red pokeberry juice.
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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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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner:
David Wojnarowicz
Date:
May 15 1981
David Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action
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Dancing Is The New Protest In Iran
Practitioner:
Iranian Activists
Date:
Mar 14 2023
The Islamic Republic has always frowned upon dance but recently even a simple choreographed or ‘synchronized movement’ – as the regime calls it – has become an act of protest.
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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane
Practitioner:
American Youth Hostels (AYH)
Date:
Apr 7 1973
On April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets.
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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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