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    Davis Square Tiles Project

    A 30-year-old art project in a subway station is repurposed into a tool that reveals hundreds of perspectives on transportation, development, and a changing city. 

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  • Enough Fear

    Getting Americans to call congress and ask for peaceful negotiations with Iran is good. Getting members of Congress to make direct calls to students in Iran is better. 

     

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  • Worth While Gaming

    What do you get when you cross a slot machine with a savings bond? A new kind of gambling that replaces short-term harm with long-term benefit for the players.

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  • Turn Your Back on Bush

    A simple action and a decentralized organizing model brings 5,000 people from 47 states to hijack Bush's inaugural parade. SNL's Weekend Update and The Onion provide coverage. (Also: the BBC, CNN, and newspapers on every continent except Antarctica.)

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  • The NIMBY Game

    How do you plan an urban area so that residents share the positives and negatives of new developments? The NIMBY Game is a tool that can be used by stakeholders to builds skills and develop strategies that lead to better outcomes for everyone. 

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  • Philly's Ballot Box

    Denied the right to vote on whether they want Casinos in their neighborhoods, Philadelphians build their own parallel election system in four weeks. Secure online and phone balloting and voting stations across the city included. 

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  • Winter Soldier

    Unsatisfied with media coverage of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, an anti-war veterans group hold four days of first-person testimony and broadcast it live via satellite, radio and online. Membership jumps 25% in the weeks that follow. 

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  • Save Fenway

    Facing down a major league baseball team, a city government, and a state legislature that plan to tear down their neighborhood along with Fenway Park, residents, sports fans and architects design a better ballpark and save their homes, hundreds of millions in tax dollars, and an American institution.

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