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Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña

In March 1992, writer/artist Coco Fusco and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña locked themselves in a cage and performed as “Amerindians,” wearing masks and converse sneakers, typing on laptops and making Vodou dolls. As the exhibit travelled from Irvine, CA to the Smithsonian in DC and London and Madrid, the artists blurred boundaries between subject and …

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A-Ville

A-Ville or “Abele-Ville” is the tent encampment/protest site outside of the administrative offices of Duke University that formed after the April 1st 2016 sit-in by nine students protesting the treatment of black and brown workers at Duke. (See Allen Building Takeover). Originally formed to protest for amnesty for the nine student protestors, A-ville grew into a …

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Duke Allen Building Takeover (2015)

April 1, 2016, nine students at Duke University started occupying an administrative office to demand accountability for workers’ rights on campus. The takeover, modeled on a takeover of the same building in 1969, followed reports of institutionalized racism in Parking and Transportation Services and an incident in which Executive Vice President Tallman Trask hit into a …

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HB2 Protest Raleigh

On March 24, 2016, hundreds of protestors gathered in Raleigh, North Carolina in front of the Govenor’s Mansion in order to protest HB2, a peice of legislation rolling back protections for the LGBT+ community and making it legal to discriminate against trans* and queer folks around the state.  Notably, the protest used an organizing tactic …

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Student & Worker (Pop Up) Museum of Resistance & Joy

The Student & Worker (Pop Up) Museum of Resistance & Joy is an instalation and protest co-created by Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity. The pop-up museum is envisioned as an ever-blooming testament to the connectivity of students and workers on campus and their vision for a university where all are treated with dignity. This …

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Teddy Bear Catapult

As thirty-four heads of state met in Quebec City to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), thousands were called to protest and police erected physical barricades and fences to block demonstrators. As organizers debated the best way forward, the Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology (DIST) circulated a satirical booklet  of creative protest …

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wheatpaste

Wheatpaste or flour paste is an adhesive made of wheat flour or starch and water. Closely resembling wallpaper paste, wheatpaste is difficult to remove. It is commonly used to make papier mache and activists and artists often rely on wheatpaste for flyposting artwork or posters.  http://thesecretyumiverse.wonderhowto.com/how-to/street-art-101-make-wheatpaste-poster-0137642/

L.O.V.E.

On February 13, 2010 as part of “La Giornata della Collera” or “The Day of Anger,” against job cuts in Italy, L.O.V.E. was silent protest of placing 10,000 construction helmets in front of the Milan stock exchange.  Complementing the strikes of thousands of workers in various levels of industry, the piece by Maurizio Cattelan creates a wordless display …

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Chrysalis Collective

TW: rape, sexual assault, gender violence The Chrysalis Collective is a community centered approach to gender violence intervention using a transformative justice model rather than the punitive, often violent mechanisms employed by state.  Within this model,  after a rupture of violence, such as an act of sexual assault, occurs in a community, the community forms …

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Azania House

As part of the #RhodesMustFall movement which began in March 2015 at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, students occupied the administrative “Brenner” building and renamed it “Azania” house.  Deeming Azania House a center for decolonial thought and home for student movements, students used the occupied building as a base for the continued …

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Prefigurative intervention

A disruption of space that images an alternative reality or utopia, at least temporarily. These actions give a glimpse of “the world that is possible” by modeling it, earnestly or in jest. For example, Monthly Critical Mass bike rides prefigure a possible city in which bikes are the predominant mode of transportation.  Similarly, many Civil …

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Free the Billboards

Free the Billboards was a 2012 project started by Nina Montenegro in Portland, Oregon in an attempt to “decapitalize” the city.  Montenegro collected from the public reimagined billboards with poems, images, photographs etc. which might replace the adverstisements currently shown.  Free the Billboards then installed Portland-made View Masters in front of billboards around the city, …

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Repatriation of Blackfoot Sacred Items at Glenbow Museum

Living mostly in the province of Alberta, the Blackfoot people are part of the four First Nations of Canada.  The Glenbow museum, located in Calgary, like many ethnographic museums, holds many sacred objects, including medicine bundles from the Blackfoot people, holy items used in worship.  Glenbow began receiving large-scale protest from First Nation people for …

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Zines (Fanzines)

The term “fanzine” (generally shortened to “zines”) refers to self-publications that are made for self-expression rather than profit.  Zines are generally low budget, outside the mainstream, have a low print run, and are oriented at self-expression.  While the term “fanzine” was first used colloquially in the 1920s by sci-fi fans, zine subculture blossomed in the 1970’s …

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Organize Your Own

The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements Organized by Daniel Tucker, Organize Your Own is a multi-format curatorial platform that invited poets and artists to make new work in response to the archive of  the organization of working-class neighborhoods the October 4th Organization and the Young Patriots Organization in Philadelphia and Chicago respectively (the exhibition takes places in …

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#FergusonSyllabus

The #FergusonSyllabus hashtag and movement represents the move of educators, activists, students, community leaders, and parents across the US and the world to create a participatory pedagogy of critical engagement with the global Black Lives Matter movement.  Used in teach-ins, by parents hoping to supplement their children’s education on white supremacy, and for personal knowledge, …

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Denver Community Museum

Founded in 2009 in an unused Denver storefront, the Denver Community Museum operated for nine months as a grassroots, community-centered project in the heart of the city.  With no budget, no employees, and no collection, the pop-up relied on contributions from visitors and community members during each monthly themed “challenge” or exhibition. All contributions were accepted …

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Project Chanology

Project Chanology, also known as “Operation Chanology” was the protest movement by internet “hacktivist” group Anonymous against the Church of Scientology, which became prominent in 2008. Project Chanology was a combination of media protests, such as the January 2008 “Message to Scientology” YouTube video, cyber attacks to the Scientology servers, and eventually demonstrations in cities across …

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