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There’s one more week of People’s Choice voting in the Art of Politics 2008 show. Below you will find our submissions, with specs and details; please consider voting for us!

The Groundswell Collective submitted four poster designs for the competition.

Throughout the month of May 2008, a democratic People’s Choice system of voting will determine which posters make it to the final round. Three posters will be chosen as the final contest winners in early June.

Help us make it to the final round! Follow the links below to vote:

You Can’t Buy Revolution

Click “Read more” to see our other submissions.

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New York City, Rio, London, Dharamsala, Cairo, Jerusalem, Kigali and others united for Pangea Day earlier this month.  The massive, grassroots film festival was broadcast live via the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.  Mainstream media giants ABC picked up the story, calling it “groundbreaking.”

You can catch highlights from the May 10 program here.  More, their YouTube channel is brimming with submissions and discussion.

One of my favorite blogs, Art Threat, reviewed the event, finding that the event was ultimately a success, with hopes for a higher profile and deeper impact in the next go-round:

With Noujaime’s vision and the mass of people who have mobilized behind it, the 2010 event should have even more of a worldwide impact and resonance.

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Moving Targets was a guerrilla exhibit staged most recently on the Metrovias train system in Argentina on Friday February 29, 2008. Presenting the print medium in a specific and meaningful way, the international print effort involved socially concerned artists moving their work via public transportation across borders.

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Noel Douglas and the Movement of the Imagination produced rolls of vinyl tape for the European Social Forum in Paris that read “Ceci n’est pas le capitalisme.” The tape has been used on numerous occasions since.

Also seen on rebel:art. Images above courtesy of the artist.

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As shareholders at Google’s annual convention were counting their well earned dividends, America’s premier billboard improvement corporation, Billboard Liberation Front, assisted the Austrian arts collective monochrom in a monumental advertising coup designed to celebrate Google’s online partnership with the Peoples Republic of China.

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