The Fineberg Tenant Union gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston with a pop-up exhibit documenting squalid conditions and evictions at Fineberg properties.
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Gen Zers in Russia Are Using TikTok as a Catchy Tool of Political Resistance
In Russia, high schoolers have massively taken to TikTok to express their support of Alexei Navalny, the resolute opposition leader most feared by the Kremlin.
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Photographer Arrested by NYPD While Covering Anti-Trump Demonstration
Chae Kihn, an independent New York photographer, is seen tackled to the ground by police in video footage taken at the scene.
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“Emotion and Light Put Together”: An LA Photographer Captures Protests and Peace
“I needed to see Black people just being gentle and loving each other in front of me. Instead of another video of somebody being murdered,” says Alexis Hunley.
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UK Activists Call for Removal of Monument to 19th-Century Imperialist Cecil Rhodes
At Oxford University, the Black Lives Matter movement has renewed protests over sanitized public narratives surrounding the violent legacy of British imperialism.
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Pittsburgh Newspaper Bars Black Journalists, Citing “Bias” in Protest Coverage
“The only bias that is being shown is by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management,” said a spokesperson for the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.
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In Mexico City, Art Collective Paints Names of Femicide Victims on Streets
The names, painted on International Women’s Day, were scrubbed away around 24 hours later.
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Hong Kong’s Protesters Subvert the Holiday Season With Radical Christmas Cards
Hong Kong protesters are remixing the Christmas card tradition under the #freehkxmascard hashtag and decorating cards with memes and slogans from the ongoing movement.
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Farmworker Unions and LGBTQ Activists Clash Over Nude Portrait of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
At a Mexico City museum, farmworker unions demanded the painting of the Mexican Revolution leader be destroyed. Their protest escalated to a clash with LGBTQ activists, amounting to violence and use of homophobic slurs.
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Parisian Strikes Bring City’s Art Scene to a Halt
As protesters take to the streets to oppose President Macron’s proposed retirement reforms, a number of art institutions have partially or fully closed.
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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Picket a Dinner Hosted by Marciano Brothers
Usually prepped to dole out exhibition information to museum art-goers, last night the workers had a 400-dollar a plate dinner to protest and pedestrians to inform.
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Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum
Around 50 workers assembled to protest the foundation’s announcement that it would be laying off its visitor services staff and shuttering its doors to the public. These developments came only days after a group of employees made public their decision to unionize.