An example of how graffiti is used to synthesise the ways oppressed citizens feel is seen in Yangon, Myammar. A young tagger known as ArkarKyaw creates a mural of President Obama smiling against a drop of American and Burmese flags. After the creation of the mural and the message being passed to both the public and the oppressing government, street art received a burn. In Myammar there is limited freedom of speech thus citizens like ArkerKyaw result to artistic formulas like graffiti to make their points heard. Although in such countries it is illegal for one to do graffiti, taggers take their chances and do their graffiti during weird times of the night and in very remote alleys (Mubi Brighenti 2010).

 

It is due to the oppression that is happening there that artist having decided to turn to graffiti as the only means of fighting for their rights. Graffiti are known to have revolutionary messages that passed to the citizens to see and to the government to know there is an underground fight going on in the streets (DeNotto 2014). Many revolutions in the world are known to get backings from graffiti if they are not the ones that started it. As there are verbal political activist other activist who has passion on art have decided on taking upon graffiti to express them and take the opportunity to fight for their rights in that way. An example of activist are the anarchy-punk band Crass who sensitised a campaign on anti-war, feminist, anarchist, and anti-consumerist through graffiti messages done in the London Underground system back in 1970s(Valle & Weiss 2010).