The Hunger Games are REAL. They are a reality for 3 million New Yorkers exchanging hard work for low wages. Global chains like McDonalds and Walmart make record profits while their workers barely get by on public assistance. It’s time to end the McHunger Games. We're...
Artist John Hawke presents at Not An Alternative's Occupied Real Estate installation in Exit Art on May 12, 2012. The installation was featured in Collective/Performative, the final exhibition of Exit Art’s influential 30 years as a non-profit gallery and cultural center. John has since moved to...
62% of bankruptcies are linked to medical debt. Over 75% of those driven to bankruptcy had health insurance when they incurred those bills. How do we avoid medical debt? STRIKE DEBT. http://rollingjubilee.org http://strikedebt.org Video produced by Hidden Driver + Animation by Not An Alternative Thanks to Heather McIntosh + Ange Tran...
Video documentation from Occupy Their Desire, a research discussion in conjunction with the exhibition Our Haus at the Austrian Cultural Forum with art/activism collective Not An Alternative, political theorist Jodi Dean, and Occupy Wall Street organizer Matthew Smucker....
On March 27-31 Not An Alternative took part in Como Acabar Con El Mal (How to End Evil): 5 Days of Art and Activism in Barcelona, Spain. After the Arab spring and the summer of mobilizations, after the autumn of Occupy, and a winter full of...
On June 18, 2009 internet theorist and author Clay Shirky joined us for a talk on the concepts of fork and failure in the open source process, particularly in the context of activism and creative practice. This event was part of the monthly Upgrade New...
"Subversive Tech and Burma's Struggle for Democracy" involved a presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma's borders, footage from the Sept 2007 Saffron Revolution, where mobile phones and the internet allowed protesters to coordinate and publicize the largest protests...