Being held under house arrest by his government since 2011 has not stopped Chinese artist Ai Weiwei from taking his politically-themed art to the world. The opening of his new
Morocco – Mouad Belghouat, known throughout Morocco and Tunisia as the rapper El Haqed (or L7a9ed), was released from Ain Borja prison in Casablanca yesterday. Since 2011, Morocco’s government has arrested
Nadya and Masha from Pussy Riot launch MediaZona – an independent news service with focus on Russian courts, law enforcement and prison system. Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria
Heartbreaking work from Iranian American Shirin Barghi, with her Twitter stream @shebe86 as artistic expression, she has rendered one of the most powerful statements we’ve seen. This, and the victims,
From Ferguson, Missouri, shocking images of the police response to protesters there have shown to many the true extent and the reality of the militarization of our domestic police
A Ugandan court has invalidated the anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, ruling the measure to be illegal because it was passed during a parliamentary session that lacked a quorum.
We wanted to: 1. get up a link to the full video and transcript of Eddie Vedder’s speech and performance of “Imagine” in Portugal on Friday since we hadn’t been
DJs Fabian Alsultany & Derek Beres focus in on rebel music from around the world and musicians “who have looked at their cultures and found things wrong in the politics
On Thursday, French-raised Chilean hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux held an interview and performance for Democracy Now!, and had bold words to say about her home countries, the United States, and
The Voice Project’s director Hunter Heaney has joined Noam Chomsky, Julian Assange, Shepard Fairey, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Molly Crabapple, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alekhina in issuing a statement supporting