Projects tagged "Organization"

Bridgetown DiY
Practitioner:
Bridgetown DIY
Date:
Jan 2 2011
Bridgetown DIY is a not-for-profit social center and music/art space. We are dedicated to empowerment through education, collaboration, and sharing.
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Feminist activist could face prison for vagina drawings
Practitioner:
Yulia Tsvetkova
Date:
Jul 7 2020
"My body is not pornography" — that is the slogan written under many of the social media posts inspired by Yulia Tsvetkova. Women are posting pictures of themselves showing off their curves, body hair and scars, along with feminist art and pictures of everyday objects that look like vaginas — like fruits or flowers.
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Practitioner:
MTL
Date:
Sep 16 2013
From creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL's clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine's geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into "how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere" according to philosopher Michael Hardt.
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New York City Food Not Bombs
Practitioner:
Food Not Bombs
Date:
May 19 2014
New York City Food Not Bombs Food Not Bombs--NYC is now working out of a kitchen provided by the Catholic Worker: 36 East First Street, between First and Second Avenues. Every Sunday they start cooking around 1:00pm and are in Tompkins Square Park to serve around 3:30pm.
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Conserving the Gola Rainforests: Sierra Leone and Liberia unite for a peaceful future
Practitioner:
United Nations Sustainable Development Group
Date:
Apr 23 2025
The Gola Rainforest, straddling Sierra Leone and Liberia is a lush, green haven. Spanning about 700 square kilometers and stretches across both countries, the rainforest is home to diverse and globally threatened wildlife, including over 300 bird species and endangered species such as pygmy hippos, chimpanzees, and forest elephants.
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Project Row House
Practitioner:
Rob Lowe
Date:
Jan 1 1993
Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish a positive, creative presence in their own community.
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NDSM Manifestation
Practitioner:
NDSM
Date:
Sep 21 2021
For this edition of ADE, Stichting NDSM-werf invited art- and activist group Tools for Action + Floor to use their terrain as a public practice space for RÆV REHEARSAL. They invite the public to rehearse new forms of assembly. With a Bluetooth speakers system, floating inflatable sculptures, and a minimalist techno beat, they move through the city like a radiating dancing swarm.
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A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal
Practitioner:
Earth Quaker Action Team
Date:
Mar 2 2015
This wonderful campaign of Earth Action Network against mountaintop removal coal mining focused not on the invulnerable mining companies, but on the banks that financed them - and especially PNC, which based its growth model on recruiting university students. It stopped both PNC and then, because of that, ALL banks from financing mountaintop removal coal mining.
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World Comics Network
Practitioner:
Sharad Sharma
Date:
Jan 1 2002
With World Comics India, the organization he started, Sharad has pioneered a cheap and easy medium for poor people to communicate meaningfully on issues that are neglected by the conventional media. While the urban elite dominates public media, the grinding day-to-day concerns of millions are rarely heard. Layers of discrimination and abuse heaped on huge numbers of people keep their problems out of sight and out of mind.
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Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Practitioner:
Feminists in Turkey
Date:
Mar 28 2021
It has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey. When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree at midnight last Friday, annulling Turkey's ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, women poured onto the streets of Turkish cities to protest. Further demonstrations are planned.
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Topless Day
Practitioner:
Go topless day
Date:
Aug 26 2012
What is GoTopless.org? We are a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007 by spiritual leader Rael and we claim that women have the same constitutional right that men have to go bare-chested in public.
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Federal Trade Commission demands Elon Musk 'identify all journalists' who had access to Twitter Files
Practitioner:
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Date:
Mar 7 2023
he Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding Elon Musk turn over internal Twitter documents, including a list of the journalists who were behind the viral "Twitter Files." The Wall Street Journal first reported Tuesday about more than a dozen letters the FTC sent to Twitter and its legal counsel as part of a probe looking into Musk's 2022 takeover of the tech giant.
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16 days of activism against gender violence-global movement
Practitioner:
various groups around the world
Date:
Nov 25 2013
Since 1991, approximately 1,700 organizations in 130 countries have participated in the 16 Days Campaign, which originated from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership. During 16 days, participators are encouraged to organize events and act in their local communities to:
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Lesbianas Se Difunden and the Feminist Movement in Spain: Taking Back Ownership of the Female Body
Practitioner:
Lesbianas Se Difunden
Date:
Jun 1 1995
From 1993 to 1998, Spanish activist group Lesbianas Se Difunden (LSD) produced and published a collection of texts and visuals called Non-Grata (Snyder 10), using erotic images of the female body and sexual relationships to capture their audiences’ attention. Within these graphic publications would be calls for queer activism, female freedom, anti-capitalist critiques, and the overall necessity for protest (Snyder 10).
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Freedom riders
Practitioner:
Hundreds
Date:
May 4 1961
The first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren't invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC southwards primarily in order to wait, together, in waiting rooms that were still unconstitutionally segregated.
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The Scheherazade Project
Practitioner:
The Scheherazade Project
Date:
Jun 9 2020
The Scheherazade Project is a Performing Arts Non-profit based in Washington DC. Co-founders Lisa Leibow and Julia Alvarez were inspired by Scheherazade in the Arab classic 1001 Nights and created The Scheherazade Project. For more information, our website is https://thescheherazadeproject.org/The-Scheherazade-Project
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Mayday Space
Practitioner:
Mayday Space
Date:
Jan 1 2016
Mayday is a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together.
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School of Echoes
Practitioner:
Ultra-Red
Date:
Apr 18 2001
Ultra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through "militant sound investigations".
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The Public Market Token Program
Practitioner:
Rochester Public Market
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Through the Market Token program, wooden tokens are used as market currency, making it possible for customers with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food-stamp benefits to get fresh, healthy, affordable foods at the Market. Customers stop at the Market office to swipe their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card and purchase $1 and $5 tokens that function as cash and are accepted by dozens of Market vendors.
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No Poisonous Pigs
Practitioner:
the Taiwan Anti-ractopamine Union
Date:
Dec 31 2020
President of Taiwan, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party（DDP）, Tsai Ing-wen, at a press conference with no early forecast on August 28, 2020, announcing that from January 1, 2021, American pigs containing ractopamine (Ractopamine) will be opened for those over 30 months old U.S. cattle are imported. Furthermore, the administrative order has only a 7-day notice period.
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Practitioner:
Peter Schumann
Date:
Jan 1 1963
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger.
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Brick X Brick
Practitioner:
Public Displays of Affection
Date:
Jan 21 2018
Brick x Brick is a public art performance that builds human “walls” against misogyny. It is organized by the Public Displays of Affection, a collective of artists, designers, educators and organizers that engages in nonviolent direct art action. During the wall performances, participants wear brick-patterned jumpsuits adorned with colorful brick patches bearing statements of misogynistic violence made by US President Donald Trump.
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Silent River Film Festival
Practitioner:
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Date:
Oct 10 2011
Cinema is a popular medium for people to escape the real world. It provides comedy, drama, and endless entertainment. But Kalpna Singh-Chitnis saw an even greater potential for film. She believed that this art form could be utilized as a means to highlight social causes, so she created the Silent River Film Festival.
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Climate Activists Deface Constitutional Monument in Germany with Black Paint, Posters
Practitioner:
The Last Generation
Date:
Mar 4 2023
Climate activists defaced a work of art near Germany's Parliament Saturday in the latest act of vandalism by protestors concerned with environmental policy. Members of The Last Generation threw black liquid over a series of glass plates displaying 19 articles of the German constitution. The protestors then affixed posters to the facade that read, "Oil or fundamental rights?" in German.
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呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
Practitioner:
Date:
Sep 11 2018
Pneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine help, easy to suffocate.
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