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The Baboon.
Rome, Italy

'Il Babuino' ('The Baboon')

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.
Many of the cakes carry insulting phrases flung at journalists and protesters that have now been co-opted for the movement.
food

To Protest a Feared Extradition Bill, Hongkongers Turn to Mooncakes

A bakery is churning out profane, popular protest pastries.
Claire Voon June 6, 2025
The cufflink found at the site of the Brunswick Town tavern.
bars

Found: A Seditious Cufflink From the Colonial Resistance Wardrobe

It holds a semi-secret message of opposition to the king.
Isaac Schultz July 10, 2019
The memorial.
Prague, Czechia

Velvet Revolution Monument

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.
Elsie Wolff Van Sandau's medal in its original case, as it was found in the drawer.
mystery

Found: A British Suffragette's Protest Medal in a Bureau Drawer

No one knows how this piece of history ended up there.
Matthew Taub June 28, 2019
The Upside Down Painting of King Philip V
Játiva, Spain

The Upside Down Painting of King Philip V

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.
An aerial view of Oxford during riots sparked by the enrollment of an African-American student, James H. Meredith, at the University of Mississippi in 1962.
statues

The Artists and Writers Who Fought Racism With Satire in Jim Crow Mississippi

How William Faulkner and a small group of provocateurs challenged segregation in ways that resonate today.
William Browning May 29, 2019
The mural overlooks a basketball court and a public piano.
Vancouver, British Columbia

'Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971'

This enormous photomural pays homage to Vancouver's infamous history of public activism.
A sign warns visitors against fishing from the Passaic River in Newark.
food

The Swap-a-Fish Program That Traded Tilapia for Seafood Contaminated by Agent Orange

New Jersey's Passaic River has been unsafe to fish for decades.
Reina Gattuso March 15, 2019
This library wasn't meant to be so empty.
libraries

Inside the Belgian Library That Tore Itself Apart

In the 1960s, a conflict between Dutch-speaking and French-speaking students divided a historic collection.
Matthew Taub February 14, 2019
Riel House in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Riel House

The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.
Vientiane, Laos

Lao National Museum

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.
A map at the Visitors Center lays out student protests across the USA in 1970.
Kent, Ohio

Kent State May 4 Visitors Center

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
The 1916 Easter Rising Leaders' burial plot.
Arbour Hill, Ireland

Arbour Hill Cemetery

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.
Police raid treehouses at the Hambach Forest campsite.
treehouses

After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted

They've been trying to stop coal mining in Germany's Hambach Forest.
Cara Giaimo September 21, 2018
Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Cambodia–Vietnam Friendship Monument

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.
Houses with eyes.
politics

How the Mesmerizing 'Sibiu Eyes' Became a Protest Symbol in Romania

The eerie windows of one Romanian town are watching for political corruption.
Sarah Laskow July 20, 2018
A forest of stone trees
Sirjan, Iran

Stone Garden

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.