dissident
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Anne Martens, a workshop attendee as well as an artist and poet, said the idea of surveillance and dissident art intrigues her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Nearly all of the regime’s economy is dependent on the U.A.E. network,” the Iranian dissident journalist Mojtaba Pourmohsen says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A man suspected of leading a dissident faction of a left-wing rebel group has been killed in a military operation in central Colombia, officials say.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Not whether Ellison privately considers himself a conservative, a liberal or a man above ideology, nor whether Weiss thinks of herself as a dissident or a reformer.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
The nearest thing classical music had to a genuine political dissident in the 1930s was the Hungarian modernist Bela Bartok.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Taught by L.A.-based artist and poet Kate Ingold, the workshops center on samizdat, a practice in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature, criticism and poetry to bypass state censorship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
While a handful of moderate dissidents are tacitly tolerated as a matter of expedience, most other heretics have been driven from the tent.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
They argued the vast new embassy next to the Tower of London would increase the risk of a terror attack and of espionage and harassment of dissidents and protesters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
One of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has gone into exile in the US, after leaving Cuba where he had served a five-year prison sentence.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
I’ve heard the men say that there are dissidents everywhere—even among the armed forces and policemen and cabinet members—just waiting for a signal that El Jefe is out of the way.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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