Cheer the Count! is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that ensure every vote is counted in the 2020 U.S. election, relieve tension, and build healthy institutions in the aftermath. Cheer the Count! Ready? Ok! The Cheer the Count toolkit provides local activists or enthusiasts with tools …
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Unstoppable Voters Projects: Post-Election Edition
This is the roundup of the artistic activism projects we’re supporting aimed at ensuring every vote is counted in the 2020 U.S. election, relieving tension, and building healthy institutions in the aftermath. These projects are taking place after Election Day in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, California, New York, Connecticut, New Mexico, and …
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The Good Liars: Making Voter Suppression Personal
Making Voter Suppression Personal is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Making Voter Suppression Personal The Yes Men and The Good Liars are teaming up to draw attention to voter suppression tactics ahead of the 2020 Election by doing …
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Our Printers-in-Residence
In partnership with Eureka! House, we have two talented Printers-in-Residence helping with Center for Artistic Activism projects: Willa Goettling and Mary Tremonte. Goettling and Tremonte have been hard at work over the past weeks creating marvelous flags, bandanas, posters, flyers, and more for our Unstoppable Voters and Free the Vaccine for COVID 19 campaigns. Willa …
Don’t Mess with My Vote
Don’t Mess with My Vote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Don’t Mess with My Vote The simple “I Voted” sticker given at polling places has become a signifier of participation, but during this critical moment in American …
#MyJamMyVote
#MyJamMyVote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. #MyJamMyVote #MyJamMyVote is part of the next phase of the Songs for Good 2020 Challenge – a songwriting contest to amplify civic engagement in the 2020 election cycle. This campaign uses …
Float the Vote
Float the Vote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Float the Vote Float the Vote calls upon individuals with mobile services, such as food or ice cream trucks, to “float” around specific voting districts in Detroit, increasing access …
Courting Voters with Court Fees
Courting Voters with Court Fees in North Carolina is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Courting Voters with Court Fees in North Carolina On September 4th, 2020, a North Carolina court ruled that court fees could no longer bar …
Drawing out the Vote
Drawing out the Vote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Drawing out the Vote Drawing Out The Vote is a voter mobilization campaign and project series including videos, installations, artist-designed “I Voted” buttons, and other actions focused in …
Project Your Vote
Project Your Vote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Project Your Vote Project Your Vote uses original, moving video footage and high powered projectors to project video on or near large polling places, drop boxes, and vote counting …
Delivering Democracy
Delivering Democracy is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Delivering Democracy Imagine troupes of dancing mailboxes, amusing people in public spaces in different towns all across Pennsylvania, and then giving out flyers with useful and accurate information about how …
Cirque d’Vote
Cirque d’Vote is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Emergency Circus presents Cirque d’Vote This election season the Emergency Circus is enlivening polling places across the nation with Cirque d’Vote, an initiative to put the fun back in fundamental …
Fuck Talking, Go Vote
Fuck Talking, Go Vote is is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Fuck Talking, Go Vote The Compton Cowboys are getting out the vote! We’re calling on communities to vote early by mobilizing diverse cowboys and cowgirls across the …
Unstoppable Voters Projects
This is the roundup of the artistic activism projects we supported aimed at celebrating voting rights and countering voter suppression in the 2020 U.S. election. 16 States Over 60 events 127 artists, designers, activists Over 20 art forms Over 2.6 mil people exposed to these projects through direct contact and media coverage videos, songs, images, …
Are Harsher Vote-By-Mail Laws Really Just Voter Suppression?
We’re fans of Roy Wood Jr. here at the Center for Artistic Activism and his video on Voter Suppression in the United States is a fun watch The Daily Show: Are Harsher Vote-By-Mail Laws Really Just Voter Suppression?
How to talk about voter suppression
How do you talk about voter suppression and election issues without amplifying the doubts and fears seeded by those who benefit from voter suppression? This resource we’ve been sharing with our Unstoppable Voters Project participants. It’s an interview with Anat Shenker-Osorio in Rolling Stone: “There’s a Right and a Wrong Way to Talk About Trump’s …
Laugh at a Campaign Pitch? Sure. Visit the Grandparents? Not So Much. – NYTimes.com
MIAMI — When Sarah Silverman told young Jews to get their lazy rotund rear ends to Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama, one question loomed: Would they go? This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has been building with …
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by Jonathan Alter Published Aug 23, 2008 From Newsweek magazine issue dated Sep 1, 2008 It’s hard to predict what will stick. ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ was a hand-scrawled sign hung in Little Rock. When NEWSWEEK reported earlier this summer that the McCain family owns at least seven houses, few outside the hothouse of politics …
The New York Times: Street Maps in Political Hues
This is an old Eyebeam R&D Project. If you haven’t used Fundrace, try it out. There’s something amazing about having access to the information. But what is happening exactly? Accoutability? Transparency? What is the result? Maybe we should talk to Jonah. Excerpt of NY Times piece Fundrace was created by a small team at Eyebeam, …
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