‘To Change Everything’ Outreach Project Introduces Anarchist Ideas to General Public with Free Primer in 20 Languages
WASHINGTON, DC — This week underground publisher CrimethInc. launched To Change Everything, a multimedia outreach project intended to introduce anarchist ideas to the general public. The project consists of a free, full-color 48-page print publication, a video by Submedia.tv, an interactive website in a many different languages, and a sticker and poster campaign. Participating collectives in […]
Celebrities, Luminaries, Journalists, Artists and Activists Release Video PSA Declaring ‘I Am Bradley Manning’
[Fort Meade, MD] A video PSA in support of Bradley Manning was released last week, featuring celebrities and journalists calling for the government to drop the dangerous “aiding the enemy” charge. The video follows a short teaser video that surfaced at the beginning of Manning’s court martial, and calls for an end to Obama’s […]
Wondering Around Wandering Pop-Up Community Art Space Hopes to Revitalize & Celebrate Crown Heights
[CROWN HEIGHTS, NY] Brooklyn artist Mike Perry’s recent endeavor, Wondering Around Wandering (WAW) is a 7,000 sq-ft creative wonderland nestled away amidst rows of former industrial spaces lining Dean St. in Crown Heights [938 Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11238]. Conceived and Designed by Perry, WAW doubles as both a free exhibition space and community free space for life-long […]
Vegucated Releases International DVD in Conjunction with NYC #ClimateWeek & Vegetarian Awareness Month
[NEW YORK, NY] Award-winning eco foodie documentary Vegucated continues striking a chord with viewers at environmental film festivals around the world. It is available digitally, on DVD and for community screenings licensing worldwide in celebration of Vegetarian Awareness Month (October) and International Vegan Month (November). Vegucated features three meat and cheese lovers who agree to accept the challenge to abandon their […]
Occuprint & OWS: Notes on Art as a Weapon for Non-Violent Insurrection
On the evening of February 16, a group of about 20 artists, designers, muralists, art historians and activists gathered at Interference Archive in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to discuss a selection of posters that have emerged out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The event was organized by Occuprint—a collaborative project that curates, collects, prints and distributes various posters and […]
Award-Winning Documentary LIFT UP Sets Distribution for Two-Year Anniversary of the Haitian Earthquake
Last year Maurice Mitchell had an amazing idea, to do 100 shows that benefit Haiti all in a completely DIY fashion. The Sparrow Project was excited to join him in that ultimately successful adventure. Along the way we met film makers Phillip Knowlton and Huguens Jean who had just finished their feature length documentary chronicling […]
The Art of Insurrection: An #OWS Creative Roundup
At the heart of insurrection, beneath both good and ugly, is something eerily beautiful. This beauty sits with the unbridled passion of the insurrectionaries. With such passion creativity explodes …on canvasses, in printed materials, on film, scrawled on the walls of public places, etched across ad-spaces, or braided into songs. The exponential growth of the […]
Help us on Kickstarter as we Publish 100,000 Copies of the Declaration of Occupy Wall Street
With a generous outpouring of support from activists, artists, and occupiers The Sparrow Project was able to print the first print-run of 10,000 copies of The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City and now we are going to need your help to reach our goal of printing and distributing another 100,000 copies! We […]
The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Help print 100,000 copies of the Declaration of the Occupation by donating at THIS LINK. With a generous outpouring of support from activists, artists, and occupiers The Sparrow Project was able to print the first 10,000 copies of The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City but we are going to need your help to reach our […]
Please Help the Sparrow Project Print the First Declaration of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
Help us print the People’s Declaration of the Occupation of Wall Street on 10,000 booklets by donating at THIS LINK. Please help The Sparrow Project print tens of thousands of pocket-sized booklets of the first declaration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. We have access to a terrific offset printer, recycled paper, and soy inks, […]
ACLU Infographic Raises Questions About Prison Industrial Complex
Although it may be hard at times to compartmentalize the work that we here at Sparrow do, avid readers of our blog and followers of our work will see some re-occuring themes. One theme is that we are critical of capitalism, another is that we are critical of the military & prison industrial complexes. With […]
Unity Production’s Creative Video Response to Islamophobia
From Unity Productions comes a powerful testimonial of the 1.8 million Muslim Americans who are as “every-day” as the rest of us. All cliches aside, they’re our doctors, our police, our teachers, and our first responders. To paint this diverse constituency of millions with a broad brush of prejudice because of the actions of a […]
Democracy Now! Invites Will Potter, Marshall Curry & Andy Stepanian to Discuss ‘If a Tree Falls’
Today Andy Stepanian of the Sparrow Project, Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red, and Marshal Curry were invited on Democracy Now to discuss ‘If a Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front‘ Curry’s new documentary about the life of Daniel McGowan and the Earth Liberation Front. ‘If a Tree Falls’ […]
Vaute Couture, Making Headlines & Veganizing Fashion
We’ve all heard someone say lightheartedly that they “fell in love” with a new article of clothing or some similar object, but has a coat ever made you literally fall in love? what about it’s designer? what about her message? Love is a central theme in Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart’s design sensibilities and that is reflected […]
Bansky Shanks FOX with Storyboard for Simpson’s Intro
Usually we reserve space on this blog only for projects we are actively involved in or for activist efforts that we support but today may be one of the few exceptions. The semi-elusive UK street artist Banksy was commissioned to storyboard the intro to the primetime animated television show The Simpsons which airs weekly on […]
35 Seconds – Short Stories From Haiti
Yesterday, Sparrow cofounder & contributor, Andy Stepanian wrote an article for The Huffington Post about a new documentary short by Dustin Miller, Nate Williams & Eric Hires about what life is like in post-earthquake Haiti. There are serious concerns that with a lack of popular media attention that the relief efforts to Haiti will subside during […]
Russell Simmons on Activism, Spirituality & Bold Native
After hosting the New York premiere of Bold Native, the first fiction film about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Russell Simmons sits down to talk about veganism, spirituality and radical activism. On the nine billion animals bred, raised and killed for food annually in the U.S., Simmons says, “Aside from all the suffering we’re causing […]
Calling All Designers! – New Book, Designing For Social Change, Makes Call For Submissions
Calling all community-based graphic designers! Author Andrew Shea is looking for projects to feature in his upcoming book. Have you used a graphic design to help a community in need? Do you have insights into this process? If so, visit andrewshea.com/book.html and submit your work. From the website: “This book will emphasize strategies to help […]
Bold Native: Like All Revolutionary Films…
When Open Road Film’s Denis Hennelly and Casey Suchan set out to make Bold Native they wanted to work in the spirit of revolutionary films like Easy Rider. They succeeded. Bold Native is a feature film on the subject of animal liberation but at its heart, much like Easy Rider, it’s a road film about […]
BP’s Greenwashing & Greenpeace’s Rebranding
For those reading this via RSS or on facebook click here to view the full post w/ video. Last week Andy Stepanian of The Sparrow Project wrote an article for The Huffington Post declaring that, “all of BP’s greenwashing can clean up their spill,” and this week that is becoming evident. The article drew […]
Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgart of Vaute Couture
Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, founder of Vaute Couture, the first and only vegan winter coat line on the market sat down with the Sparrow Project this fall for an interview where she detailed her 8 months of fabric research for a vegan alternative to wool that was slim & pretty but ready for a Chicago winter. […]
Speak With It Too
The following video has been circulating around activist communities in the past few weeks, it’s a brilliantly animated typographic depiction of a poem by Taylor Mali. The artist, Ronnie Bruce, made it as a class project over a year ago and later posted on his vimeo page. Without over analyzing, this video is a prime […]
50%50 Solidarity Shirts
For those visiting from SuperVegan.com Please be sure to check out our new online store here. It’s exciting news to say that after a lot of saving up money, designing, and signing contracts the Sparrow Project is proud to announce that this Spring 2010 we will be launching a line of benefit shirts, that are […]
Island to Island Opening 1/23/2010
Recently we were hired to make a video short to help promote Brent Gentile’s latest exhibition called Island to Island. All smooth-talking aside, it can hardly be considered work when you are dealing with content as interesting as Brent’s. Merging what some call graffiti with victorian styles Brent Gentile uses ornamental flourishes, stencils & urban […]