New political off-Broadway show in New York seeks to delve into the mind and life of freedom fighter turned dictator in play about Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe
Political Artwork archive on Democracy Chronicles
These Political Artwork articles reflect the strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change. Also see our main section on Political Art or our extensive articles on World Protest.
Interview with Occupy’s Nowhere Man
Occupy’s Nowhere Man Brian Connolly has been an OWS activist and instigator for nearly two years – he’s the guy who’s the spitting image of John Lennon
Turning Weapons Into Art in Liberia
Art in Liberia: after tragic violence in Liberia, new generation seek rewards of peace including one artist turning weapons of civil war into new objects of art
The Man Behind Women’s Activist Group Femen
Ukrainian women’s activist group Femen seek attention by revealing their breasts during protest but it may be that a man was the mastermind of movement
An Appeal for New Writers
Written exchanges can enrich one’s life or hold it back, depending on how much attention and care one gives to them.
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America’s Illicit Trade in Orwell and Steinbeck
Surveillance and wage slavery are openly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, creating a new class of Winston Smiths and Tom Joads – a trade in Orwell?
Gentrification is Symptom of Neo-Colonialism
Political action to oppose gentrification has been some communities’ response against unintended economic eviction
Some Revealing and Surprising Anti-Obama Graphics
Opposition to President Obama is fierce, vitriolic and at times a bit ridiculous as shown by conservative blog’s anti-Obama graphics
What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom?
Adam Curtis is an English award-earning, film maker who made the film, “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom”