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Wealth Inequality in America – YouTube

Very encouraging that this video has 6.5 million views. Since our idea is so far from reality, how does this change the way we talk about this issue? How do we approach the topic so the people we’re talking to don’t dig in and defend what they believe to be true? And how does the …

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Heavens, Not Havens

Heavens, Not Havens A short article on the public relations problem around taxes and some ideas for helping it.

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Photos from School for Creative Activism, New York 2013

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Make Your Own Damn Art – Bob and Roberta Smith – documentary trailer – YouTube

Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘It’s important to undermine and subvert things’ Make Your Own Damn Art    

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2013 SCA New York Participants Announced!

Linda Sarsour Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American community activist, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently working as the Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator for the National Network for Arab American Communities and ACCESS and locally serving as the Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, a social service agency …

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New video: What is The School for Creative Activism?

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Freedom to Fail, Harvard-Style

Even Harvard Business Review gets it: failure is a necessary part of creation and innovation.  This blog post highlights how a few forward-thinking organizations build failure-friendly practices into their structure.  One of our favorites is from DoSomething.org: DoSomething.Org, a nonprofit that helps young people take action on social change initiatives, has a “FailFest” once a …

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Event: Paul Engler @ Creative Activism Thursdays

  Thursday, May 2nd; 7 PM NYU Tisch, Performance Studies Dept. 721 Broadway, 6th Floor FREE Photo ID required   Paul Engler, Director of the Center for the Working Poor, will speak about his experience in the anti-globalization movement after Seattle, immigrant rights marches, Occupy, how the Serbian nonviolent revolutionaries changed his life, a concrete plan …

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Not An Alternative: Internship Opportunity

Not An Alternative is a hybrid arts collective and non-profit organization with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history. They curate and produce interventions on immaterial and material space, leveraging the tools of architecture, exhibit design, branding, and public relations.  And they are great friends of the Center for Artistic Activism!  See …

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Making Taxes Visible

In a recent New York Times editorial, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton discussed America’s broad distaste for the institution of taxation, a phenomenon that plagues advocates of progressive taxation in this country.  Rather than addressing the historical-political underpinnings of these contemporary attitudes, they approach the issue from a design perspective.  Their conclusion?  Taxes could benefit …

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