Projects tagged "Demonstration & Protest"

Missile Dick Chicks Take America
Practitioner:
Missile Dick Chicks
Date:
Oct 6 2002
Shortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration's use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond to what they believed were the absurd reactions of Bush by attaching paper maché missile "dicks" and demonstrating in public.
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Howard University students protest housing conditions with on-campus tent city
Practitioner:
Howard Students
Date:
Oct 12 2021
Dozens of Howard University students are sleeping outdoors in a tent encampment on campus grounds to protest what they describe as "poor" and "unlivable" conditions in the college dormitories. Students told ABC News that portions of the university living quarters have mold and insect and rodent infestations, as well as leaky ceilings and flooding -- all of which they say put their health at risk.
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We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violence
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in partnership with Birkbeck, University of London, will see national, international and grassroots organisations and charities join forces with local artists and leading voices to address the global crisis of violence against women and sexual assault.
Date:
Nov 27 2021
Gender equality charity Women of the World (WOW) is launching a one-day festival of activism that invites people from all generations, genders and backgrounds to take part in conversations around sexual violence.
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A fashion protester crashed the dior spring 2021 show
Practitioner:
a member of Extinction Rebellion
Date:
Jan 25 2021
PARIS — At the end of the Dior fashion shown in Paris last September, a woman got up from the audience and walked down the runway carrying a yellow banner painted with the words “We Are All Fashion Victims.”
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Chilean Kiss-In
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jul 6 2011
Chile Students Stage Kissing Protest Ricardo de la Pena, UPI.com
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AS AMAZON, WALMART, AND OTHERS PROFIT AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, THEIR ESSENTIAL WORKERS PLAN UNPRECEDENTED STRIKE
Practitioner:
COALITION OF WORKERS
Date:
Apr 28 2020
AN UNPRECEDENTED COALITION of workers from some of America’s largest companies will strike on Friday. Workers from Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, and FedEx are slated to walk out on work, citing what they say is their employers’ record profits at the expense of workers’ health and safety during the coronavirus pandemic.
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FEMEN’s Fight for Feminism in Spain
Practitioner:
FEMEN
Date:
Jun 11 2021
FEMEN is an organization that is revolutionizing the feminist movement. Founded in Ukraine in 2008 and adopted in Spain in 2013, FEMEN protests gender-based issues such as inequalities, violence, patriarchy, etc. Since its creation, it has spread to several other countries, and there have been hundreds of organized protests.
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Czechoslovakia’s two-hour general strike
Practitioner:
Czechoslovaks
Date:
Apr 30 2012
A general strike can be one of the most potent noncooperation methods in the repertoire of nonviolent resistance. It is a widespread cessation of labor in an effort to bring all economic activity to a total standstill. Although it is easy to broadcast the call for a general strike, it is exceedingly difficult to implement for the maximal impact that it potentially exerts. What’s more, a general strike must
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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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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Practitioner:
Ricardo Dominguez
Date:
Dec 12 2007
Students at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened.
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Autonomous Zones
Practitioner:
Student Plenum
Date:
Feb 11 2015
After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO – making innuendo about ‘foreign influence’ prompting similar concerns from Russia.
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SlutWalk
Practitioner:
SlutWalk Co-Founders Sonya Barnett and Heather Jarvis
Date:
Apr 3 2011
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance.
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Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls
Date:
Jan 1 1989
The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this billboard for the Public Art Fund (PAF) in New York, aimed to criticize the museum institutions for under-representing female artists and objectifying women.
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Compton's Cafeteria Riot
Practitioner:
Costumers at Compton's
Date:
Aug 2 1966
Compton's Cafeteria, 24 hour diner in S.F.'s Tenderloin was a hang out spot for trans women, drag queens, and sex workers. It was a place for the community to meet up for an expensive meal, a place to chit chat, and let each other know they made it through the night alive. They were often harassed by police and arrested for female impersonation. Finally one night in August the Compton's costumers weren't going to take it anymore.
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West Palm Beach arts community, drag queens protest against Clematis Street permit denial
Practitioner:
West Palm Beach arts community
Date:
Apr 18 2023
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Supporters of the LGBTQ+ and arts communities in West Palm Beach are protesting the closure of two popular spots for creatives in the city.
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Practitioner:
Minds.com
Date:
Jan 27 2016
In the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S.
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'Casseroles'
Practitioner:
Quebec students and residents
Date:
May 26 2012
'Casseroles'protests, based on the tradition of 'cazerolazo,' consists of protesting by banging on pots and pans in the street. This took place in May of 2012 in Montreal and across Quebec, in response to the government's proposed tuition increases and the controversial "Bill 78" passed to control and dissuade dissent.
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Matador almost gets the Wall Street Bull
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Nov 10 2011
The incident began when two clowns, Hannah Morgan and Louis Jargow, scaled the steel barricades protecting the landmark. The clowns began spanking and climbing the beast, traditional ways of coaxing a bull into anger in preparation for a Castilian corrida, or bullfight.
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Climate Activists Throw Soup on Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ to Protest Fossil Fuels
Practitioner:
Just Stop Oil, Phoebe Plummer, Anna Holland
Date:
Oct 14 2022
On Friday, in room 43 of London's National Gallery, two young women opened cans of tomato soup and threw their contents onto Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting Sunflowers. The soup-throwers donned shirts displaying the logo of Just Stop Oil, an activist group that has been staging nonviolent demonstrations across the United Kingdom to protest the production of fossil fuels.
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"You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE" world record
Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin
Date:
Oct 6 2007
On October 6th, 2007, we beat a new world record. Thousands of people in cities all across Spain simultaneously shouted: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE!” The decibels radiating from this collective cry were registered by an interactive meter, baptized “The Fuck-o-meter” for the occasion.
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Self-barricading for Free Education
Practitioner:
Cooper Union Students
Date:
Dec 3 2012
Eleven students have locked themselves in the Peter Cooper Suite of the eighth floor of the Cooper Union building to protest the institution's decision to charge graduate students tuition.
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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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The Reality of Small Differences
Practitioner:
Gill Crawshaw; disabled artists in Yorkshire
Date:
Aug 23 2014
An exhibition of textile-based work by disabled artists, organised in protest at the inaccessibility of an exhibition by a popular artist, when it came to Leeds.
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Practitioner:
Tony Cornelius, HFC
Date:
Jul 28 2023
The Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem's artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst for social change and community empowerment. The festival boasts a lineup of artists from various genres and backgrounds, including jazz, soul, hip-hop, gospel, blues, rock, Latin, and Afrobeat.
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Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fare
Practitioner:
Anonymous group
Date:
May 5 2021
On the 5th of May 2021, the subway's 12-line partially collapsed, killing 24 people and injuring more than 70. Onboard, were children, young women and men, and the elderly. The accident also killed a man and injured a woman who was driving a car, upon which the train fell. The poorly conditions of the subway structure had been repeatedly reported by neighbors living nearby. No institutional response was given.
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