+ Busy creative people can relax and express themselves at their convenience, taking 'armchair activism' to another level.
+ Creative intellectual thinkers have an outlet for expression and discussion centred on issues that are important to them.
+ Awareness becomes dependent on activity and using creative abilities to push messages as far as can be.
+ Joining online networks and communities to form a collective critical mass, online campaigning becomes fun and expressive, providing the artists with a platform and the audience with a product.
+ Artists can utilise their existing networks, create new networks and plug into an existing art activist hub.
+ Campaigning can be done when there is no other suitable outlet for the creative activist, online and collectively.
+ Issues can be ad hoc and reinforcing topics that are highlighted or under scrutiny in the media or in the community as well as allowing for a platform for creative activist thinkers to express themselves on concerning issues on a constant basis.
+ Getting attention for what you do is empowering, find an existing audience and watch your confidence and motivation soar.# Cross-educate with other activist artists who are working on campaigns of their own, meet like minded artists locally and globally, and network with others who want to heal the world.
+ Collaborate with other passionate artists.# Take advantage of the promotional and organisational opportunities the group may be involved in, such as applying for grants, online campaigning and other promotional media and events.# Be known as a caring soul.
+ Help the 'power of one' become the 'power of many', find your public voice.
+ Maybe make a little money on the side from your art.
+ Find an existing audience who want to see (and maybe even buy) activist art and also an audience that can benefit from being exposed to activism.
+ Art Action Union (in conjunction with partners and sponsors) provides visual artists and writers with a FREE mode of delivery of their ideas that is advertising free.
+ Art Action Union does not support or condemn one cause or another, each artist is independent and expresses their own ideas and feelings about things that are important to them, there is an emphasis on INCLUSION, open free thought/discussion and MUTUAL RESPECT.
+ Art Action Union provides opportunities for artists to improve their standards and professionally benchmark their productions with other like-minded artists through selective features and artist interviews.
+ Receive regular bulletins about art action on current issues and subscribe to the Art Action News mailing list and thus contribute and grow the network.
+ Join an already thriving creative community.
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Peace
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March! Remembering the Armenian Genocide
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