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An interconnected web of the key strategies and tactics that have inspired people-powered victories & upended the status quo. Start anywhere and explore…

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Danza Revolucionaria en Círculo

Danza Revolucionaria en Círculo

En el 2012, un movimiento combinaba la táctica de flashmob y levantamientos con danzas tradicionales indígenas en círculo para derrotar un proyecto de ley que habría erosionado la soberanía indígena y la protección ambiental en Canadá.

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Plantón en la guardería

Plantón en la guardería

Varias mamás solteras presionaron a un oficial de vivienda de una guardería no solo haciendo un plantón en su oficina sino convirtiéndola en la guardería que estaban necesitando.

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99% Bat Signal

99% Bat Signal

As 20,000 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge at the height of the Occupy Wall Street uprising in 2011, guerrilla-projectionists lit up the skyline with a huge “99% bat signal” light projection.

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Barbie Liberation Organization

Barbie Liberation Organization

Switching the voice boxes of Barbie and GI Joe dolls generated hilarious results and a much-needed conversation about gender stereotypes in America.

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Bidder 70 (Tim DeChristopher)

Bidder 70 (Tim DeChristopher)

In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher disrupted an auction of Utah oil and gas drilling leases by bidding, and winning, many parcels. He then used his arrest and trial to make the case for bolder climate action.

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Billionaires for Bush

Billionaires for Bush

During George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, the Billionaires for Bush used humour, guerrilla theatre, and creative media actions to dramatize economic inequality and political corruption in the US.

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Citizens’ Posse

Citizens’ Posse

In the final days of a stalled push to reform healthcare in the US, a “citizens’ posse” gathered to arrest those responsible for the gridlock.

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Conflict Kitchen

Conflict Kitchen

Cleverly retro-fitting a take-out window, Conflict Kitchen built cross-cultural understanding by introducing Pittsburgh locals to the food and culture of places with which the US government was in conflict.

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Couple in the Cage

Couple in the Cage

This performance art piece was an ironic reenactment of the practice of displaying indigenous peoples in public venues designed to expose the historic prejudices of the museums in which it appeared.

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Earth First!

Earth First!

In deep belief that there is “no compromise in defense of Mother Earth,” members of this movement put their bodies on the line to stop ecological destruction.

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Ghana ThinkTank

Ghana ThinkTank

A global art project that flips the script on the international aid model by enlisting regular folks in Ghana and elsewhere throughout the Global South to help “develop the First World.”

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Harry Potter Alliance

Harry Potter Alliance

An innovative cultural campaign that mobilized the huge Harry Potter fan-base to fight for justice, human rights, and democracy in our world, just like Harry did in his world.

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Justice for Janitors

Justice for Janitors

The Janitors’ Union in Washington, D.C. used a series of escalating creative direct actions — dubbed Days of Rage — to win union recognition, wage hikes, and benefits.

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Mining the Museum

Mining the Museum

Artist Fred Wilson presented a museum’s collection in such a way that it called into question the entire worldview from which the collection was originally assembled.

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Modern-Day Slavery Museum

Modern-Day Slavery Museum

To highlight abuses of farm workers and identify remedies, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (a community-based farmworker organization) created the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum.

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Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street

For two months in 2011, in an open-ended act of defiance against capitalism, citizens occupied a public square on the doorstep of Wall Street, sparking 800 similar occupations and a new revolutionary awakening.

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PARK(ing) Day

PARK(ing) Day

PARK(ing) Day is a worldwide movement to challenge and repurpose urban space by temporarily transforming metered parking spaces into public parks.

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Public Art Nanny Hotline

Public Art Nanny Hotline

A hilarious fake talk show that domestic workers in the U.S. dialed into for information on overtime wages, tax requirements, trafficking, and more.

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Public Option Annie

Public Option Annie

In 2009, at the height of the Obamacare fight in the US, a band of creative activists snuck into a major health insurance industry gathering and did a guerrilla musical that got national attention.

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Québec Student Strike

Québec Student Strike

In 2012, Québec students managed to reverse a major tuition hike and a draconian anti-protest law through direct democracy, creative tactics, and mass demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of people.

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Streets Into Gardens

Streets Into Gardens

In 1999 New Yorkers turned the tables on the mayor’s attempt to auction off hundreds of their beloved community gardens by turning the streets themselves into gardens and staging a “festival of resistance.”

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Taco Bell Boycott

Taco Bell Boycott

In 2005, farm workers in Florida, US, led a nationwide boycott of Taco Bell. They eventually won a historic victory, raising wages and setting an inspiring example for farm worker organizing.

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The Teddy Bear Catapult

The Teddy Bear Catapult

In a tit-for-tat of escalating absurdity, anti-globalization activists found themselves lobbing teddy bears at police with a toy catapult, and police found themselves mocked for taking it seriously.

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Trail of Dreams

Trail of Dreams

In 2010, four US immigrant youth leaders walked 1,500 miles to Washington, D.C. to put a human face on the immigration debate and pressure politicians to fix the broken and unjust US immigration system.

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Whose Tea Party?

Whose Tea Party?

On Tax Day in 1998, fair tax campaigners cleverly pranked a GOP media event on the Boston Tea Party Ship Museum, stealing the day’s headlines, and offering a master-class in the tactic of media-jacking.

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Wisconsin Capitol Occupation

Wisconsin Capitol Occupation

In 2011, tens of thousands of workers and students filled Wisconsin’s state capitol with a non-stop protest to protest Governor Walker’s attempt to strip civic unions of collective bargaining rights.