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- Accessible Horizon Activist film production with Koushalya
- Change of State Performance Project Careen across the dance-theatre spectrum, asking into today’s looming socio-political issues
- Clown One Italia Humanitarian Clowning from Italy to the World
- Ecological Construction Laboratory Passive Architecture Project in Urbana, IL
- Gesundheit Institute Revolutionary Health Care
- Herbert Brün Society Promoting the work of Herbert Brün
- Just Foreign Policy Achieving a just foreign policy based on cooperation, law, and diplomacy
- Liberation Ecology Project Linking Social Justice and Ecological Health
- Nonsense Company Experimental Theater and Music
- Pearl Heather Forge “Press” texts: DESIRE, CYBERNETICS, SOCIAL DESIGN, ACTIVISM
- PolyProject Wiki started by School for Designing a Society students
- Prince Myshkins Political satire on the outskirts of folk music
- Social Design Site An online network that likes the School for Designing a Society
- Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Non-corporate citizen-produced news media in Urbana-Champaign, IL
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Category Archives: Activism
The Nobel Peace Prize for Not Confusing People: Reflections on the 2010 Health Care Intensive
by Susan Parenti 3pm, May 27, Thursday in Olympia, Washington—Cool, rainy weather, deserted streets… Suddenly the friendly Olympia Community Center is swamped with a group that will swell into 122 people over the next three days—participants in the 2010 Thinking … Continue reading
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Da Crucial Artz
by Rob Scott I spent a day taping the wierdo champion Chu-uck D as he provided a spanarchist perspective on our little town of Urbana-Champaign. Over the course of the day, several locals received an exposition of da (not the) … Continue reading
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Blogging from the Health Care Design Intensive
The Health Care Design Intensive is ongoing at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore and Mark and Danielle have posted some descriptions on a blog here.
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Ecological Action
By Kyra Shaughnessy Sprouting from a shared desire to increase our freedom from the behemoth of industrial agriculture, a group of recent SDaS students and other members of the Urbana-Champaign community have been meeting weekly to share seeds and knowledge … Continue reading
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Leap Day House Concert
by Jacob Barton On Leap Day 2008, recent SDaS students presented a House Concert in the living room of La Casa Grande Colectiva, a co-op house in historic East Urbana. The offerings were variegated: a science fiction therapy scene, an … Continue reading
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Protest at Champaign City Council
Video -WMV | Video -QT | Video -JavaThe City Council of Champaign, IL voted last night 6-3 to remove Human Rights protections for Section 8 Housing Voucher recipients. Under the previous ordinance, it would have been considered an illegal act … Continue reading
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New Book from Taylor Sparrow
Click for larger view Mini Book Review by Rob ScottOne of our former students, who is also a tireless organizer, has now published his first full-length book: a collection of stories from his recent years studying history, travelling, organizing resistence, … Continue reading
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World Social Forum and Independent Media in Nairobi, Kenya
by Danielle Chynoweth In January, I joined 30 independent journalists from Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya met for 4 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya with a handful of folks from Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Prometheus Radio Project in Philadelphia, and … Continue reading
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