‘While the teachers are detained, the classrooms will be closed,’ reads one artist’s painting on a wall.
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Iranian artists are showing renewed determination to promote freedom as a cultural necessity in Iran, even in the face of a government crackdown.
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In 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson slashed a painting London’s National Gallery to attract publicity to Emmeline Pankhurst’s imprisonment.
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Russian artists are finding an artistic home in Kirkenes, a small Norwegian town 15 kilometres from the Russian border.
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For young Nigerian protesters on social media and on the streets, #ENDSARS is as much an expression of a will to modernity as it is a yearning to be treated with dignity.
Black Lives Matter has moved beyond polite protest and is challenging dominant narratives in new and successful ways.
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By rejecting traditional norms of “respectable” protest, BLM activists compel police and the public to confront anti-Black racism.
Hong Kong’s first Lennon Wall appeared in 2014.
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First seen in Prague in 1980, a form of public protest and free expression has spread throughout Hong Kong and around the world.
Extinction Rebellion or XR functions like a brand, albeit a non-commercial one.
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Visual arts and performance have always been central to protest movements - but the unified branding of Extinction Rebellion shows a new approach to activism.