Trump Baby is the latest in a long history of visual protests. But is this 'cheap shot street theatre' truly effective, or should we ask more of protest artists?
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Elin Ersson was accused of frightening children – but it's more likely that she inspired them.
The young activist acted morally and intelligently when staging her protest against the deportation of asylum seekers from Sweden.
Oleg Sentsov's trial was a farce, but the world continues to ignore his plight.
One of South Africa's finest hip-hop crews message was that you couldn't box identities forged through multilingual living in the ghettos.
The changing aesthetics of protest allow many more voices to be heard.
An immigration expert breaks through the alphabet soup of federal agencies responsible for enforcing immigration laws.
Activism increasingly relies on strong visuals that can be shared online, and – somewhat surprisingly in a digital world – physical billboards still play an important role.
Massive noxious garbage dumps piling up around Moscow have sparked citizen protests. And those protests are turning into criticism of the political system, which could threaten the Putin regime.
Palestinian nonviolent protests and mass movement of resistance is one of Israel's biggest fears.
As CCTV cameras become more widespread, it's becoming more difficult for people to protect their locational privacy in public.
NFL players, historically losers in power struggles with team owners, can retake control of the kneeling-protest issue if they use social media to connect with the public.
Markets have mobilised feminism to advance political goals and add value.
Young Palestinian activists are risking their lives to protest against Israeli occupation – here's why.
Thanks to a violent fringe of protesters backed by Hamas, a far larger non-violent movement is struggling to control the narrative of what's happening in Gaza.
The chaos visiting South Africa's North-West province shows that ordinary people in rural areas have got a raw deal from ruling party.
The Atelier Populaire produced many of the iconic images of the student and worker movement that gripped France 50 years ago.
As companies and governments attempt to intensify extraction, cultural resistance offers a space for imagining alternative futures.
The protest song "Stimela" remains as much a song about present and future aspirations, as it is of the past.
Since the Brexit vote in 2016, rebellious movements have repeatedly shown their ability to shape political outcomes across the globe, often in unexpected ways: So what lies next?
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