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  Video

  Actions Speak Louder Than Talk: Slanguage Superheroes

  August 5, 2013 - 

  Dressed up as The Magic Mariachi and The Green Crocodile, Slanguage artists ask, “who are the superheroes in your community?” in the first episode of a youth-driven art initiative to engage bilingual students and teachers in cross-border conversations about identity, community and action.  More

  By Slanguage

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  Dispatch

  Imagine What It Was Like To Be Me

  August 5, 2013 - 

  In the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal, which has intensified conversations about racial profiling and systemic discrimination, pioneering conceptual artist Adrian Piper presents a faded black-and-white image of Trayvon Martin peering through crosshairs.  More

  By Adrian Piper

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  Mixtape

  Transnational Sounds, Local Struggles: A Brooklyn Rent Strike Mix from DJ/rupture

  August 5, 2013 - 

  Jace Clayton (aka DJ/Rupture)’s mix conveys both the sounds and struggles of a mostly Latino and Chinese working-class Brooklyn neighborhood that became the center of a rent strike last summer.  More

  By Jace Clayton

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  Op-Ed

  The Bradley Manning Truth Battalion

  July 31, 2013 - 

  Bradley Manning faces up to 136 years in prison for espionage, though he was cleared of the most serious charge, “aiding the enemy.” As sentencing begins, artist Molly Crabapple describes the enthusiastic support for Manning at the military court in Fort Meade.  More

  By Molly Crabapple

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  Video

  The Time In Between: Displacement After Hurricane Sandy

  July 15, 2013 - 

  Sandy Storyline, a participatory documentary project, shares the first of a series of pieces for Creative Time Reports exploring the “in-between homes” where people lived after the storm, telling the story of an elderly Queens resident displaced to a psychiatric center for months.  More

  By Sandy Storyline