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‘Pay Trump Bribes Here’ Projected on Trump Hotel in Washington

The blue letters over an entrance at the Trump International Hotel alluded to questions about the president’s business affairs with foreign governments.

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Glow Blog

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Instead of spreading flower petals, family and friends decorated this nurse’s casket with band aids that they wrote a little message on. What a sweet way to honor all the healing she brought to others.

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respecting the dead

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Flying penis hits New Zealand official at trade-deal protest

New Zealanders have a unique way with expressing themselves through protest: This time, it features an Economic Development Minister — and a flying dildo.

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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project

Late last year David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic, cofounders of politically minded art collective T. Rutt, learned via Rachel Maddow that a Donald Trump campaign bus was up for sale on Craigslist in D…

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In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source

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One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

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People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

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“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

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Tiny homes provide shelter for Nashville’s homeless

With homelessness on the rise, Nashville residents have taken the housing problem into their own hands

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Radioactive Control by Luzinterruptus

The installation Radioactive Control was created for the Dockville Festival in de Hamburg which tried to demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan, has brought into question the safety systems at the nuclear power plants. (Source)

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The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS

LIFE.com shares the story behind one of the most harrowing and controversial photographs to emerge from the global pandemic

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Brandalism: 82 Artists Install 600 Fake Ads Across Paris to Protest the COP21 Climate Conference

Just days before the start of the UN COP21 Climate Conference held in Paris and during the French state of emergency following terrorist attacks earlier this November, 600 posters were covertly distributed and hung within the city. The posters were not taped to poles or distributed in public gro

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Massive Public Artwork in Paris Protests Climate Change

"It’s about people ... whose lives are threatened by climate change."

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Protester Explains Why, How they Rappelled down Bank of America Stadium

One of four protesters arrested after two people rappelled from the upper deck of Bank of America stadium Monday night explained to FOX 46 why and how they pulled off the stunt. During the Panthers game, the group revealed a sign that read,

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A Radical Design Movement Is Growing in New Orleans

What happens when activists, architects and artists team up to change their city?

City zoning that supports fair housing is boring. Very few people want to jump into a casual conversation about the best way to manage blight or reduce verbal street harassment. Unless you’re with friends, it’s next to impossible for a discussion about Confederate monuments or race and policing to become anything but inflammatory. (If you need evidence of that, refer to the comments section below any online article attempting to deal with those topics.) Yet these issues of urban justice can’t be left to trolls, or even politicians, to hash out — not if we want to see progress in our cities. Change will only come as a result of public awareness, dialogue and, ultimately, political pressure.

So, the question becomes a simple one: How do we get people to pay attention?

https://nextcity.org/features/view/urban-design-activism-socially-engaged-art-design-as-protest

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Hometown Of Kim Davis Gets New Billboard - Joe.My.God.

The Huffington Post reports: Anti-gay marriage clerk Kim Davis is about to get a rude awakening in her hometown. Non-profit organization Planting Peace just erected the above billboard in Davis’ hometown of Morehead, Kentucky. The message is plain and simple — if Davis is going to use Biblical rhetoric to justify her opposition to same-sex ...

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Well done.

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The Hidden Meaning Behind This Show Stopped Fashion Week in Its Tracks

Wow.

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Some/One by Do-Ho Suh

This art piece is made out of  30,000 dog tags. Korean Artist Do-Ho Sun explores the dehumanization of a soldiers role in society. (More Information)

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