Saturday, March 24, 2012

Walking activism

  • For all but the last hundred years, walking has been humanitys primary mode of transportation. Today, though, simply strolling down the block in the evening might constitute an act of dissent. Some notes on the nascent pedestrian revolution.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • From staging a kiss-in at the Academy Awards that prevented celebrities from walking along the famous red carpet for ten minutes to stampeding churches that preached anti-gay messages, he and his colleagues at Queer Nation broke Hollywood out of its shell.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • As Soadwa recalls, the town was not only sharply divided by race, with Black people on the poor side and white people on the better half, it was separated by a highway on which the poor walked with baby strollers as speeding cars raced by.
  • (News One)
  • In his appearance at 92nd Street Y, where he was interviewed by Charlie Rose, much of his conversation focused on the confluence of art and activism in his life. He came on stage walking with a cane.
  • (Salon)
  • Walking out is not really doing anything Frustrated by the delay, some students took to social media and began organizing the walkouts. Their online activism continues.
  • (KQED)
  • Andrew Breitbart had done what no other conservative had ever done: physically destroy an important bastion of radical-Alinsky activism.
  • (New American)

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