humour
Blog: The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA)
According to their website, The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) "aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society.
Blog: Humor as a tool of protest in Belarus
In Belarus, where censorship is pervasive and President Lukashenko presides over a repressive and autocratic regime, Pavel Marozau has used the power of humor and satire to undermine the government. Founded by Pavel in 2004, The Third Way Expatriates' Network began creating short satirical cartoons as a way to speak out against Lukashenko. Since then, the organization has begun using further cyberactivism tools to combat heavy government censorship of radio, television, newspapers, and most recently, internet.
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Blog: A History of Humor in Human Rights Advocacy
The use of humor in human rights activism is no new phenomenon with
examples of it dating back to Norwegian popular resistance in World War
II. Ranging from thought-provoking to humiliating, comical to
satirical, humor can be manifested in such a multitude of ways that it
has often been the venue of action for many human rights practitioners.
Although at first thought it may seem that organizations using humor in
their advocacy are doing so only for attention and publicity, this is
certainly not true. The experiences of numerous years of humor have
brought a deeper understanding of the effects it can have in advocacy.
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