Backbone Campaign builds and distributes artistic props and tools that convey solutions, challenge the dominant paradigm that “everything is for sale” and protect that which is sacred: life, community, nature and our obligations to future generations. They travel across the United States to deliver trainings and workshops to change agents on the front lines of their communities. All of their work is done in service of building capacity for the progressive movement and to amplify people’s impact on issues that make a real difference in their lives. 
WHAT IS ARTFUL ACTIVISM? Backbone created a 210 foot long Constitutional Preamble, celebrating WE THE PEOPLE that has been take to many events nationwide and thousands of people have signed it. 
PFW’s grant was used to make a giant ORCA.
Orcas worldwide face a number of threats, many of which are the same regardless of ecotype or region. Prey depletion is a problem for many orca populations, as is biocontamination, increasing ship traffic, harassment, conflict with fisheries, habitat loss, risk of oil spills, and noise pollution. In some regions – Greenland, Japan, Indonesia, and some Caribbean islands – they are still victims of whaling efforts. Historically, populations in the Pacific Northwest and North Atlantic were targeted for live captures to be sold to oceanariums like SeaWorld. The Southern Residents were extensively targeted and still struggle to recover – they have never come close to regaining their pre-capture population numbers. Orcas in the Pacific waters off Russia are still captured and sold into captivity,
