Craftivism / Knitting, stitching and reclaiming the streets

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I had heard lightly about this before but I did not know that it was way more interesting and active than I thought.

So from Wikipedia :

Craftivism is a form of activism, typically for social justice, environmentalism or feminism, that is centred around practices of craft - especially handicrafts. Practitioners are known as craftivists.

I think it is really creative, it is DYI, it a has a bit of punk attitude and street art in it.
It has more to it than the "fun" side and I believe it could help rebuild the whole forgotten crafts and networking we will need in the future.
It's craft + activism.

I just post a few links because there is a lot lot more to check out and discover if you're interested in it :

_http://craftivism.com/blog.html/(Interesting blog, interestingly the author is starting articles about the origins of craftivism)

_http://www.counterfeitcrochet.org/ (Critique of a political economy / counterfeiting designers brands with crochet)

_http://www.knittaplease.com (Kitting and street art)

_http://radicalcrossstitch.com/(Australia cross stitch activist / reclaiming areas for people to live there)