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9 extraordinary ways to use the tools of your trade in protest
Fifteen years ago this month, the French sheep farmer Jose Bové revved up his bulldozer and dismantled a McDonald’s. No matter how you slice it, this is one of the most memorable instances of a worker...
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4 ways to hit the high notes of resistance
Take a bow, activist singers of the world! Every now and then there is an action that hits all the right notes — the message is clear, the messengers are appropriate, the setting and tone are...
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The Art of #BlackLivesMatter
Protesters culture-jacked a fountain running blood-red in St. Louis as an (un)timely tribute to the Cardinals. (Twitter/Ainur Arenova) In the last half of 2014, protests against police brutality and...
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4 potent lessons in creative cultural activism from Myanmar
View image | gettyimages.com The legacy of the brutal Burmese regime that kept glamorous challenger Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and its tightly controlled society closed off to outside...
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100 years later: 5 timeless lessons from Joe Hill
A hundred years ago on November 19, 1915, the song writin’, cartoon scribblin’, parody pushin’ Industrial Workers of the World organizer Joe Hill was unceremoniously executed by firing squad in Utah....
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Protest ban will not stop creative actions at COP21
One of the large props being made for the climate actions at the Jardine D’Alice art build convergence center in Paris. (Twiiter/@350France) As a couple years of planning draw to a close, the protests...
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The 2015 Creative Activist Awards
It’s that time of year to embrace highlights and bury the out-of-date. As activists, this can be a critical time to evaluate our strategies and alight on alternate paths if needed. Earlier this month,...
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6 creative ways to make your point at the conventions
Here we go again. The Republican Convention officially opened this week in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Democratic Convention nipping at its heels next week. Every four years the United States is thrown...
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7 resistance-themed board games to strengthen your injustice-fighting skills
Exhausted personally and politically by the current state of the world? Or just need a distraction — something to lighten up the remaining days of winter? Here’s a recommendation: Play board games!...
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How technology is shaping creative activism in the 21st century
Two decades into the 21st century, one would expect all manner of “new and innovative” activism, right? Even Gene Sharp — the grandfather of cataloging nonviolent tactics, who published a list of 198...
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HOLY SH*T! 7 things to do instead of hoarding toilet paper
Embed from Getty Images We’re facing down a global pandemic. If you find yourself saying “Holy shit! What do I do?!” you’re not alone. A renegade bug is showing how deeply broken our system is. Beyond...
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From fringe idea to law of the land — a look inside the creativity fueling...
It’s hard to keep up when the world lurches from pandemic to racial justice uprising seemingly overnight. After months of living in a quarantine pressure cooker, amidst a global pandemic that’s thrown...
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Unf*ck the vote! 3 ways creative action can win the election
Turnout, especially in polarized times like these, wins elections. The stakes in this election — whether we have a livable planet, whether kids are incarcerated in detention centers and, perhaps,...
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Forget Amazon — give real gifts this holiday season
Embed from Getty Images Amidst the politically pendulous year we’ve all had, we’re thinking with gratitude of the people in our lives who are holding it down and getting shit done in so many ways —...
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How artistic activism can move us toward a better future
One of last year’s major highlights for me was participating, as training director, in the launch of Beautiful Trouble’s new website. We pulled together over 10 years worth of creative activist...
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