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Should Art Volunteers Be Paid? Some Suzanne Lacy Volunteers Say Yes

by Whitney Kimball on October 18, 2013
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Like many of Suzanne Lacy’s works, tomorrow’s performance—Creative Time’s largest undertaking to date—aims to get widespread attention on the issues of a local marginalized community. “Between the Door and the Street” enlists around 350 activists, mostly female, to stage small conversations on city stoops about issues of class and labor inequality. So it seems fitting that the project has already opened a discussion about a perennial activist problem: volunteers want to get paid.

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Where Is Occupy Now?

by Noah Fischer on June 7, 2013
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Where is Occupy Now?

June 1, 2013. Answer:Turkey.

Longtime Occupier and Occupy Museums participant Noah Fischer offers his thoughts on where Occupy is, and how it’s changed since September of 2011.

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Cooper Union Students Prepare to Maintain Barricades Indefinitely

by Whitney Kimball on December 4, 2012
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They’ve got a toilet. They’ve got Twitter. They’re not leaving til their demands are met.

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