“You are only clearing a camp… You can’t clear the idea,” reads a message written across an eight-lane Hong Kong highway occupied by pro-democracy protestors until the camp’s recent clearance by

“How are we going to respond?” goes the challenge vocalized by poet Amanda Johnston to her fellow African-American artists. The line between art and protest has grown increasingly blurred in

Kalsang Yarphel, a popular Tibetan singer, has been sentenced to a four-year prison term by Chinese authorities for performing at concerts and singing songs encouraging the embrace of Tibetan culture.

As an election day passes in the United States with many states facing record-low voter turnouts, activists in Hong Kong continue to mobilize in pro-democracy demonstrations in spite of being

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky cut off a part of his earlobe while sitting on the wall enclosing the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry during his protest action

In the week of 29 September till 3 October, Marloes van Houten guest lectured at the HQ Art School in the Netherlands for their “Arts and Society” series. Together with

Morocco’s leading rapper-activist says he’ll choose the path of rap and resistance every time, at whatever cost.   El Haqed was released from prison on September 18, 2014 following his

  Chinese police detained a well-known poet and seven other people ahead of a poetry reading planned in Beijing to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, relatives of the detained

“Under a Vast Sky” (????), has become the unofficial anthem for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests, Occupy Central Hong Kong, also called the #UmbrellaMovement or the #UmbrellaRevolution for the umbrellas used by

Eddie Vedder has released a cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” to benefit Voice Project grantee HEARTBEAT.fm, an organization that uses music to foster peace between Israel and Palestine. The song is now available