April 2012
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New Museum: ACT UP: Twenty-five years of AIDS... →
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Tara Hart and Megan Heuer
“Let the record show that there are many in the community of art and artists who chose not to be silent in the 1980s.” —William Olander, 1987
Tomorrow Wednesday April 25 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to…
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WatchTIME 100 video feature of Ai-jen Poo
Ai-jen Poo leads a nationwide movement of nannies, housekeepers and care workers to gain long overdue workers’ rights.
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Ai-jen Poo on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People...
Congratulations to Ai-jen Poo for being listed among TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Thanks to everyone who supported and voted for her. Ai-jen has been someone I’ve long admired, been lucky to work with in the past, and learned much from.
Ai-jen Poo, the 38-year-old daughter of pro-democracy immigrants from Chiang Kai-shek’s Taiwan, has been...
“Our destination is fixed on the perpetual motion of search. Fixed in its...”
– Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
“Exile is predicated on the existence of love for and a real bond with one’s...”
– Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993)
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WatchFundraising for a documentary on Corky Lee, “the Kevin Bacon of the Asian American community”
Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story A one-man campaign to document Asian Pacific Americans
Corky has wanted to publish a book of his photographs for the past 30 years. He is the Kevin Bacon of the Asian American community, it seems that everyone knows Corky Lee! Our hope with this...
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WatchVideo series for Civic Action: A vision for Long Island City, an interactive multimedia installation on community, resident, and artist-driven green-space initiatives for LIC/Astoria, sponsored by the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park.
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“The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as...”
– Lierre Keith (via tomjoadsghost)
