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Thu, Jun 20 2019

OBEY AWARENESS FIRE ISLAND COLLECTION

Obey Awareness was founded in 2007 as a way to educate and fundraise for causes and organizations Obey supports. It is a unique program in that it constantly evolves to support important emerging issues and organizations. Each season the...
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Sat, Apr 07 2018

OBEY Awareness - Stop The Violence

With the increase of senseless gun violence happening across the country, we felt obligated to address gun violence issues, and take a hard look at the prevalence of guns in our culture. We created a new series of OBEY Awareness shirts designed by Shepard Fairey and members of his design team at Studio Number One, to raise awareness and funds to educate and combat the problems we are seeing. We are calling this series Stop the Violence – available worldwide on May 4, 2018.
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Tue, Mar 13 2018

OBEY AWARENES: CHILDREN INCORPORATED

For our latest OBEY Awareness Collection, we’ve teamed up with Children Incorporated.Children Incorporated is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization that provides assistance to children in 23 countries around the world, including the U.S. For more than 50 years, their organization has helped offer sustainable solutions for children to receive food, clothing, and healthcare.
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Tue, Sep 26 2017

OBEY Awareness: Road to Baja

Road to Baja is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims to benefit orphanages in Mexico’s Baja California region. It aspires to strengthen the connection with our Southern neighbors by spreading creativity and unity, honoring their land and paying respects to their deceased loved ones.
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Sat, Sep 09 2017

#DefendDACA

This Tuesday, the Trump administration announced the cancellation of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era policy that protects the nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States before the age of 16 (nicknamed Dreamers) from deportation, and allows them the ability to work legally.
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Tue, Apr 25 2017

Fashion Revolution Week Starts Now!

Today marks the 4th anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, a tragedy that took the lives of 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh in 2013. We now refer to this day as Fashion Revolution Day, and use it as a time to reflect on how we can respect the process of how the clothes we wear are made. OBEY Clothing is proud to join Shepard Fairey and the fellow Fair Trade activists below to kick off Fashion Revolution Week.
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Wed, Apr 29 2015

Skateboarding Philanthropists

Meet Jordan Lovelis and Chris Weigele, two skateboarders from Costa Mesa, California that met while riding together for Siren Skateboards. After experiencing some harsh realities while on a trip to India, they decided to use their talent and love for skateboarding not to become rich or famous, but to help better the world.
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Tue, Mar 10 2015

Glen E. Friedman

GO Campaign improves the lives of orphans and vulnerable children around the world by partnering with local heroes to deliver local solutions. GO Campaign connects donors to high-impact grassroots projects aimed at changing lives and transforming communities, one child at a time.
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Fri, Sep 12 2014

Banago asks Kickstarter to help Rescue Typhoon Victims

Fashion company BanagoTM is releasing a new line of accessories as part of a novel post-disaster strategy which promises to speed the recovery of livelihoods for over 400 woman artisans in the wake of typhoon Haiyan.
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Thu, Feb 27 2014

PROTECT MOUNT TAYLOR

VICTORY ON TRIBAL PILGRIMAGE SITE MOUNT TAYLOR: Seventeen months of art, activism, law and love have resulted in Supreme Court rulings upholding the designation of this mountain as a sacred site and placing it under the protection of the National Register of Historic Places.
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Wed, Feb 19 2014

OBEY AWARENESS: AFRICAN DREAM INITIATIVE

This season OBEY Awareness has teamed up with African Dream African Dream Initiative. African Dream Initiative (ADI) gives promising but disadvantaged children the resources to become Africa’s future leaders by providing quality education and helping them build the skills they need to make their communities places where dreams can come true.
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Wed, Oct 30 2013

Bridge School Benefit

This past weekend was Neil Young’s 27th annual Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA, a non-profit raising money for the education of special needs children.
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Sat, Sep 07 2013

NEW “WE ARE STILL HERE” MURAL IN DOWNTOWN LA

I met Stephen Zeigler at my friend Stuart Noble’s memorial and he mentioned that he was working on a project to turn Indian Alley in downtown LA into a series of interlaced murals focusing on human rights and Native issues.
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Thu, Mar 28 2013

NEED SUPPLY CO. & RICHMOND, VA SHOP SPOTLIGHT

We wanted to take some time to highlight some of the great shops out there that have supported OBEY for so long and are doing interesting things in their parts of the country or the world.
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Thu, Feb 07 2013

Bringing Light To What Is Dark

HELPING BRING AWARENESS FOR THOSE LIVING IN A SHADOWA very close friend of mine who happens to be an extraordinary artist, Kevin Nocerino, joined forces with me to bring my vision of rebirth after chemotherapy treatments to light.
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Thu, Aug 23 2012

ALICE PASQUINI FEATURE

Once again we have a new feature up in the Propaganda section. This week we feature an article on street artist Alice Pasquini.“The first word that comes to mind when looking at Alice Pasquini’s work is ‘big.’ It’s bright and rich and full of colors, and seems to take up the entirety of a space.
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Wed, Aug 15 2012

OBEY AWARENESS: HONOR THE TREATIES

Today marks the official launch to our new OBEY Awareness campaign, Honor the Treaties. Honor the Treaties is an organization dedicated to amplifying the voices of indigenous communities through art and advocacy.
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Thu, Aug 09 2012

OBEY Awareness: Jail Guitar Doors

We are proud to announce the release our fall OBEY Awareness campaign with Jail Guitar Doors USA. All profits from the campaign will go to benefit the charity founded by Billy Bragg and Wayne Kramer of MC5 that focuses on working with prisions to use music as a form of rehabilitation.
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Thu, May 17 2012

Giving back

Check out the new video we have up on our OBEY Awareness program. Shepard speaks about what we do and the importance of getting people interested in fundraising causes.
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Wed, Feb 01 2012

OBEY AWARENESS: URBAN ROOTS

We just launched our new OBEY Awareness project with Urban Roots. We are raising funds in support of a call to action that creates farms within schools in urban areas. These farms are used not only to grow food but to educate as well.
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Fri, Aug 26 2011

OBEY AWARENESS: KAB

This season’s OBEY Awareness project involves The Keep A Breast Foundation founded by Shaney Jo Darden and Mona Mukherjea. Keep A Breast utilizes an array of art forms to educate young people about breast cancer and to inspire them to adopt healthy lifestyles with long-term benefits.
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Thu, May 05 2011

DARK WAVE/RISING SUN FOR JAPAN RELIEF

Today we are releasing the Dark Wave/Rising Sun shirts. OBEY has many friends and collegues in Japan. We hold a great respect for the Japanese people and their culture.
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Sat, Apr 16 2011

Non Toxic Revolution will not be televised

What's the story with toxins in your everyday life? Find out by watching this brand new video by the NON-TOXIC REVOLUTION and please share it with friends and family! YOU need to know daily harm you can avoid.
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Thu, Mar 17 2011

Help Japan

Our extended OBEY Japan Familia.. Nobu, Taka, Masaa, and Hashim B have been updating me on the daily and I’m glad they’re all right. Stay strong my friends!
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