Written by An Xiao BEIJING — Photographer and installation artist Wu Yuren (吴玉仁), who Hyperallergic profiled last year for his activist work, has returned after a year to visit the 008 and Zhengyang arts districts, both the sites of a…
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Chinese Art Activist Returns to Ruins of Bulldozed Arts District
Tagged with: Ai Weiwei, All Articles, Art, art, Arts, Beijing, big brother, censorship, Censorship, Censorship in America, China, Chinese language, Evan Osnos, Free Speech, General Censorship, Government, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Images, New Yorker, Newsworthy, Photography, Twitter, Wang Lihong
Posted in Human Rights, Political Censorship
Posted in Human Rights, Political Censorship
50 People Get Naked for Art on Wall Street, 3 Get Arrested
Written by Hrag Vartanian Wall Street is a bizarre place. Major investment banks, hedge funds and other members of the world’s financial elite tank the world’s economy and practically no one gets arrested. Fifty participants in a performance art project…
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Posted in Human Rights, Political Censorship
Posted in Human Rights, Political Censorship
15 Years in Prison For Taping the Cops? How Eavesdropping Laws Are Taking Away Our Best Defense Against Police Brutality
More and more people use their smartphones to record police misconduct. But laws against wiretapping are being used to intimidate and stop them. Written by Rania Khalek Over Memorial Day weekend this past May, residents of Miami Beach witnessed a…
Tagged with: All Articles, Anthony Graber, censorship, Censorship in America, First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, General Censorship, Government, Human Rights and Liberties, Images, Jack McKenna, Maryland, Memorial Day, Newsworthy, Photography, Police Brutality, Police misconduct, Politics, Subscriber Identity Module, United States, United States Constitution, YouTube
Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
A Situation of Parenti Control? Has WikiLeaks Inspired Artist @ExiledSurfer Been Censored, Blocked on US Government Networks?
Re-published from Wikileaks-Movie.com under the Creative Commons License Written by Jacob Andrews @exiledsurfer censored? ArtificialEyes.tv, the website and blog operated by artist and “Wikivisionary” Michael Parenti, appears to have been blocked and censored on at least one U.S. government computer network. While WikiLeaks-Movie.com is…
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Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
Freedom Isn’t Free – And It Turns Ugly At Times
Children’s first exposure to the freedoms that Americans cherish sometimes comes not from kindly parents or wise teachers, but from an obnoxious jerk insulting someone or cursing at something. Ranting till the veins bulge in his neck. If confronted, the…
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Posted in Human Rights, Religious Censorship
Posted in Human Rights, Religious Censorship
Ransom Center Exhibition Explores Forces Behind Censorship in United States Between Two World Wars
AUSTIN, Texas — “Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored,” an exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, reveals the rarely seen “machinery” of censorship in the United States between the two world wars. The exhibition runs from Sept. 6 to Jan. 22,…
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Posted in Censorship, Government Control, Media Censorship
Posted in Censorship, Government Control, Media Censorship
Social Injustice Highlighted at Silverdocs Film Festival
More than 100 documentaries screened near US capital Social justice is a key theme at the 9th annual Silverdocs Documentary Festival, a collaborative effort of the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel. Regarded as one of the most important…
Burma Expels Hollywood Actress Michelle Yeoh Before Suu Kyi Film Release
Officials in Burma said Tuesday that actress Michelle Yeoh was deported when she tried to visit the country last week. Yeoh, who won international fame as a Chinese spy in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, plays Aung…
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Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
Censors Should Grow Up: Adults Can Handle Sex
The Australian censorship system blanches most consistently not at violence, but at sex. Torturing people to death presents relatively little problem to the censors. But dare to show actual sex on film or in print? Unless it’s animal copulation of…
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Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
Controversial ‘Jesus Ants’ Art Goes Marching Again — on Bicoastal Tour
A crucifix in the video “A Fire in My Belly,” part of the ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The image shows Christ on the cross with ants crawling over his body and face. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) A controversial…
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Posted in Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights
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