Sentence examples for perform a protest from inspiring English sources

A young woman named Ezili, who described herself as a singer-actress-writer-composer, stopped by one afternoon to ask advice about how and where she might perform a protest song she'd written.

Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, alongside fellow band member Yekaterina Samutsevich, had been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing a protest song in Moscow's main cathedral.

Veteran songwriter Wolf Biermann, who was kicked out of the GDR in 1976, performed a protest song called Ermutigung (Encouragement) and took a number of swipes at politicians from Die Linke (the Left party), successors to East Germany's ruling party, the SED.

Band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who served prison sentences after performing a protest song against Russia president Vladimir Putin in a church, were among five band members and a cameraman attacked by Cossacks as they performed under a sign advertising the Games on Wednesday.

Ahead of his visit, British musicians have appealed to Russian authorities to give punk rock group Pussy Riot - due to stand trial for performing a protest song in Moscow - a "fair hearing".

Russia also chafes under U.S. criticism of human rights abuses like the prosecution of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the jailing of Pussy Riot punk rockers for performing a protest song against Putin and the repression of its own whistle-blowers like Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody in 2009 after disclosing widespread corruption among tax authorities.

He said he would continue to perform as a protest "against the contempt ordinary Moroccans endure at the hands of the state and politicians".

She and another band member, Maria Alyokhina, were jailed after performing a crude protest song in a Moscow cathedral.

The Israeli-Argentinian conductor Daniel Barenboim has been in talks to take one of Germany's top orchestras to Iran to perform a concert, drawing angry protests from Israel.

Mr. Dylan, whose songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Masters of War" were sung at many a Vietnam War-era protest, is scheduled to perform a set list of his own determining on April 10 at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City.

The activists also performed a Thanksgiving-inspired protest.