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99% Бэт-сигнал (Сигнал бедствия для вызова Бэтмена)

99% Бэт-сигнал (Сигнал бедствия для вызова Бэтмена)

Когда 20 000 человек прошли маршем по Бруклинскому мосту в разгар восстания «Захвати Уолл-стрит» в 2011 году, партизанки — проекционистки осветили небосклон огромной световой проекцией «99% Бэт-сигнал».

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#​This​Flag (#ЭтотФлаг)

#​This​Flag (#ЭтотФлаг)

Как всего один человек своим протестным призывом вдохновил граждан_ок Зимбабве найти в себе смелость и свергнуть жестокого диктатора.

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Ангола 15+2

Ангола 15+2

История о том, как 17-летние активист_ки с риском для жизни устраивали голодовки и флэшмобы, чтобы свергнуть ангольского кровавого диктатора и прервать тридцатилетие угнетения.

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Битва за Сиэтл

Битва за Сиэтл

В 1999 году на ненасильственной демонстрации 70 000 протестующих остановили собрание Всемирной торговой организации в Сиэтле, одержав победу над неолиберализмом и положив начало глобальному движению за справедливость в США.

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Большой марш Бирманских студент_ок

Большой марш Бирманских студент_ок

В 2014 году сотни студенто_к отправились в 580-километровый марш по Мьянме в знак протеста против попытки контролируемого военными парламента объявить студенческие союзы вне закона.

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Велопробег во имя мира

Велопробег во имя мира

В 2014 году, в годовщину памяти жертв политического насилия в Раджгиндже (Ноакхали, Бангладеш) местное сообщество устроило велопробег.

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Взлом апартеида

Взлом апартеида

В разгар борьбы против апартеида южноафриканские борицы за свободу и хакерки создали зашифрованную коммуникационную сеть, чтобы связать лидер_ок в изгнании с теми, кто боролся за свободу в Южной Африке.

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Гендерная дискриминация в боксе

Гендерная дискриминация в боксе

После выборов в 2008 году, когда многие молодые женщины подверглись сексуальному насилию, организация под названием Boxgirls Kenya начала проводить тренировки по боксу, чтобы предоставить молодым женщинам мощное противоядие от стыда, стигмы и страха, которые они пережили.

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Гражданский отряд

Гражданский отряд

В последние дни застопорившейся попытки реформировать здравоохранение в США «гражданский отряд» («citizens’ posse») собрался, чтобы арестовать виновных в задержке.

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Из улиц в сады

Из улиц в сады

В 1999 году житель_ницы Нью-Йорка изменили правила игры при попытке мэра продать с аукциона сотни их любимых общественных садов. «Фестиваль сопротивления» превратил сами улицы в сады.

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Кампания об украденном газе

Кампания об украденном газе

Рядовые иорданские активист_ки мобилизовали народное сопротивление сделке с Израилем по импорту природного газа на 15 миллиардов долларов, как до, так и после подписания сделки.

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Крипто-ралли в Мехико

Крипто-ралли в Мехико

В ответ на новый всеобъемлющий закон о телекоммуникациях, было организовано событие под названием CryptoRally, представляющее из себя игру, где игровое поле — это город Мехико, а цель — развитие навыков в области цифровой безопасности и защита свободы слова.

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Марш в мини-юбках

Марш в мини-юбках

После видео, появившегося в сети в 2014 году, на котором девушку в Хараре (Зимбабве) оскорбляли и домогались, женщины организовали шествие в мини-юбках, протестуя против широко распространенных уличных приставаний и добиваясь создания безопасных пространств.

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Миллиардеры за Буша

Миллиардеры за Буша

Во время перевыборов Джорджа Буша в 2004, «Миллиардеры за Буша» использовали юмор, уличный театр и творческие действия СМИ для драматизации экономического неравенства и политической коррумпированности в США. 207/210

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Проект Лисистрата (Lysistrata Project)

Проект Лисистрата (Lysistrata Project)

Протестуя против войны в Ираке, проект Лисистрата провёл в 65 странах более 1 000 чтений древнегреческой комедии Лисистрата, повествующей о том, как женщины остановили войну, отказавшись заниматься сексом с мужчинами до тех пор, пока они не прекратят сражаться.

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Сила трусиков

Сила трусиков

Бирманские диссидентки протестовали против правящей хунты Мьянмы, призывая своих сторонниц отправлять трусики по почте в иностранные посольства и высшим генералам (которые суеверно боялись, что женское нижнее бельё лишает их власти).

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Сорвано публичное выступление президента Обамы в Мьянме

Сорвано публичное выступление президента Обамы в Мьянме

В 2014 году студент_ки Янгонского университета в Мьянме устроили креативный срыв публичного выступления Барака Обамы, обратив таким образом внимание на военный уклон процесса государственных реформ.

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Справедливость для уборщи_ц

Справедливость для уборщи_ц

Объединение уборщи_ц в Вашингтоне использовали серию нарастающих творчески-направленных акций – названных Днями ярости – чтобы добиться возможности объединяться в профсоюзы, повышения заработной платы и льгот.

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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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Battle of the Camel

Battle of the Camel

A violent attack on protesters in Tahrir Square by pro-regime, camel-riding thugs was a turning point in the Egyptian revolution, generating popular support for the protesters and leading to the fall of Mubarak.

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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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Birthright Unplugged/Replugged

Birthright Unplugged/Replugged

The Birthright Unplugged/Replugged project used travel as a subversive act to expose Israel’s unjust restrictions of movement and violations of international law.

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Black Monday movement

Black Monday movement

A campaign against theft of taxpayer money that engaged Ugandan citizens to fight corruption by exposing and ostracizing government thieves. Members wore black on Mondays.

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Brazil’s Free Fare Movement

Brazil’s Free Fare Movement

The Free Fare Movement awakened a generation of Brazilians to the power of mass street action and the utopian possibilities inherent in a popular uprising.

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Bring Back Our Girls

Bring Back Our Girls

In April 2014, 276 girls were abducted from their school by the Boko Haram terrorist group, sparking a massive global campaign demanding their return.

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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

A new methodology of civil disobedience, merging the ancient art of clowning with contemporary tactics of nonviolent direct action, which became an international protest phenomenon in the early 2000s.

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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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Countering Homophobic Policing

Countering Homophobic Policing

A series of bold and creative direct action protests, from police station invasions to “wink-ins,” succeeded in pushing back against police persecution of gay men for consensual acts in the UK in the 1980s.

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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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Daycare Centre Sit-In

Daycare Centre Sit-In

Single moms pressured a public housing official for a daycare centre by not just sitting-in at his office, but actually turning his office into the daycare centre they needed.

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Dhawili (turn on the lights)

Dhawili (turn on the lights)

In 2012, Tunisian anti-corruption campaigners used blogs, flash mobs and lobbying of National Constituent Assembly deputies to enshrine the right to freedom of information in the post-revolution constitution.

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Dow Chemical Apologizes for Bhopal

Dow Chemical Apologizes for Bhopal

An imposter posing as a Dow Chemical spokesperson announced live on BBC World News that Dow would spend $12 billion to compensate the victims of the Bhopal disaster, creating an instructive PR disaster for Dow.

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Dump Veolia Campaign

Dump Veolia Campaign

BDS activists around the world forced the French company Veolia to divest from the Israeli market after causing it to lose $20 billion worth of contracts for its complicity in Israel’s human rights violations.

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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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Every Heartbeat Counts

Every Heartbeat Counts

Using the #LATE campaign hashtag, revolutionary artists and media activists are reinventing the aesthetic narrative of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and situating the commune at its symbolic center.

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Fees Must Fall

Fees Must Fall

The 2015 tuition hikes sparked a national student movement in South Africa that demanded comprehensive reform and questioned the political, social, and economic status quo of the “rainbow nation.”

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Flower Speech Campaign

Flower Speech Campaign

In 2014, Burmese activists launched the Panzagar (“flower speech”) campaign to counter hate speech in Myanmar in response to a rise in anti-Muslim violence.

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#​Gambia​Has​Decided

#​Gambia​Has​Decided

After almost a decade of building momentum, Gambians seized a crucial window of opportunity in 2016 to overthrow a notorious dictator.

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Gezi Park iftar

Gezi Park iftar

When Turkish authorities tried to break the unity between secular and religious anti-capitalist protesters, Observant Muslims responded by inviting everyone to a public feast during the Ramadan Iftar.

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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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Honk at Parliament

Honk at Parliament

In June 2013, citizens began honking their horns outside Lebanon’s Parliament to tell MPs that their time in office had expired. The protest spread until they were honked at everywhere they went.

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Kisangani Demands Electric Power

Kisangani Demands Electric Power

Despite state violence, the people of Kisangani forced the Congolese authorities to honor their constitutional right to reliable electric power.

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Kubatana’s yellow poster campaign

Kubatana’s yellow poster campaign

In 2014, after a disheartening election in Zimbabwe, despondent citizens were inspired by motivational posters around Harare to interact with each other via the online social justice site, kubatana.net.

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Manich Msamah

Manich Msamah

After the revolution, Tunisian youth combined their wit and passion to demand “no reconciliation without accountability!” and prevent the corrupt business elite from escaping justice.

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Maraiwatsede: the land belongs to the Xavante

Maraiwatsede: the land belongs to the Xavante

During Rio+20, the Xavante indigenous people partnered with other organizations mastering a strategic intervention to regain the land that had been promised to them 20 years before.

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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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No vote, no sex

No vote, no sex

An opposition party candidate in Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections called for women to withhold sex from their husbands in order to pressure them to vote for change. The results were underwhelming.

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Nuit Debout

Nuit Debout

In 2016 French citizens occupied the Place de la République for three consecutive months to expand democracy and protest attempts by the government to liberalize the labour market.

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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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Orange Alternative

Orange Alternative

The Orange Alternative was a 1980s-era underground protest movement in Poland that used street happenings and absurdist provocations to ridicule the Communist regime and promote independent thinking.

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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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Pedestrian death puppets

Pedestrian death puppets

Student activists hung full-sized human foam core cut-outs over a dangerous highway in Beirut to draw attention to pedestrian fatalities, successfully pressuring the city council to build an overpass.

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Pimp My . . . Carroça!

Pimp My . . . Carroça!

In Brazil, artivists used humorous graffiti to decorate the carts of trash collectors, bringing them visibility and respect, while demonstrating the importance of their contribution to city life.

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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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Pyramid of Shoes

Pyramid of Shoes

As part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, marchers built huge pyramids of shoes to visualize the number of people still being killed or injured by landmines in lapsed conflict zones.

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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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Reclaim the Streets

Reclaim the Streets

Reclaim the Streets began as creative activist group in London, but its tactics, blending party and protest, soon spread around the world.

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Replacing Cops with Mimes

Replacing Cops with Mimes

Faced with a notoriously corrupt traffic police force, chaos on the roads, and many traffic deaths, Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus disbanded the corrupt cops and offered to retrain and rehire them… as mimes.

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Round Dance Revolution

Round Dance Revolution

In 2012, a movement combining flash mob tactics and traditional Indigenous round dances rose up to defeat a bill that would have eroded Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections across Canada.

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The Salt March

The Salt March

In 1930, Gandhi famously led a march to the sea to collect salt (which Indians were banned from producing), forcing the British Raj into a classic decision dilemma and paving the way for Indian independence.

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Santa Claus Army

Santa Claus Army

A radical theatre collective dressed in Santa costumes took to the streets of Copenhagen to demonstrate the true meaning of Christmas. Hilarity ensued, and a legend was born.

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Schools of Struggle

Schools of Struggle

Students occupied over 200 schools in São Paulo to protest the governor’s plan to close schools, forcing him to reverse course, and igniting a wave of student resistance across the country.

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Sign Language Sit-in

Sign Language Sit-in

Deaf activists in Zimbabwe stood up (and sat-in) to demand access to information in sign language, successfully pressuring the national broadcaster to include sign language interpretation in news broadcasts.

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Standing Man

Standing Man

Sometimes one person standing in defiance of police repression is enough to galvanize a movement of millions. That’s exactly what happened in Turkey in 2013.

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Stolen Beauty

Stolen Beauty

The Stolen Beauty boycott campaign targeted the Israeli cosmetics manufacturer Ahava, causing economic damage, a tarnished reputation, and ultimately, a promise to move the factory out of historic Palestine.

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Stop Prawer Plan

Stop Prawer Plan

In response to a draft Israeli bill that aimed to expel 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their ancestral land, Palestinians organized a massive campaign that led to the withdrawal of the proposed bill.

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Street Graduation

Street Graduation

Graduates across Zimbabwe creatively turned their unemployment into a daily protest routine, instilling a clear link in public consciousness between unemployment, the financial crisis, and corruption.

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Stripping Power in Uganda

Stripping Power in Uganda

Female elders in northern Uganda invoked powerful cultural taboos by removing their clothes in front of two government ministers who were attempting to grab their land, successfully chasing them away.

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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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Taxi drivers strike against taxation

Taxi drivers strike against taxation

To protest continued harassment and exorbitant illegal charges by tax collectors, taxi drivers and conductors throughout Kampala parked their vehicles and stopped working.

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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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Walk a mile in her shoes

Walk a mile in her shoes

In Lebanon in 2015, men were invited to walk a mile in high heels as a way to educate the public around violence against women and to fundraise for women's rights.

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Welcome to Palestine

Welcome to Palestine

Hundreds of international solidarity activists staged a “fly-in” at Ben Gurion airport demanding to visit Palestine in protest of Israel’s racist border policies and de facto siege of historic Palestine.

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Who Would Accept?

Who Would Accept?

After Egypt’s 2013 coup, when the only safe way to criticize the regime was to focus on poor economic conditions, ten Egyptian women held up banners with messages like, “Who would accept… such high gas bills?”

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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.

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Yellow Pigs in Parliament

Yellow Pigs in Parliament

In 2014, to protest government corruption and high rates of youth unemployment, young activists painted two pigs yellow (the colour of the ruling party), and let them run wild in Uganda’s Parliament.

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Yomango

Yomango

The ethical shoplifting, culture jamming, direct-action movement Yomango turned the impulse to shoplift into a movement and an art form.

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“You’ll never have a home in your f***ing life!”

“You’ll never have a home in your f***ing life!”

Housing rights activists organized this participatory publicity stunt to reframe the housing crisis as a shared problem that would require record-breaking collective action to resolve.

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#​You​Stink

#​You​Stink

In 2015, in Lebanon, more than 100,000 protesters took to the streets in response to a garbage crisis, triggering a resistance movement that told the corrupt government “You Stink.”

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Zapatista Caravan

Zapatista Caravan

In 1994, university students organized educational brigades to break the information blockade and rumours about the uprising of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN).