Do U2 3D and The Tree That Remembers include political statements or stances?
yes
U2 3D
U2 3D is a 2007 American-produced 3D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006.
 The film contains performances of 14 songs, including tracks from "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (2004), the album supported by the tour.
 The concert footage includes political and social statements made during the shows.
 It is the band's second feature film, following their 1988 rockumentary "Rattle and Hum".
 Among several cinematic firsts, "U2 3D" was the first live-action digital 3D film.
The Tree That Remembers
The Tree That Remembers is a 2002 animated documentary by Iranian filmmaker Masoud Raouf, exploring the lives of former political prisoners like himself who had been active in the democratic movement during the days of the Shah of Iran, only to face imprisonment and torture under the Islamic regime after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Bread and Roses (album)
Bread and Roses was a 1976 album by Judy Collins that attempted to merge the singer's political convictions with the commercial success of the previous year's "Judith".
 Political statements like the title song, originally a poem by James Oppenheim commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, were balanced with such pop compositions as Elton John's "Come Down in Time", but the album failed to achieve the commercial success of "Judith". Political abuse of psychiatry in Russia
Political abuse of psychiatry is the purported misuse of psychiatric diagnosis, detention and treatment for the purposes of obstructing the fundamental human rights of certain groups and individuals in a society.
 In other words, abuse of psychiatry including one for political purposes is deliberate action of getting citizens certified, who, because of their mental condition, need neither psychiatric restraint nor psychiatric treatment.
 Psychiatrists have been involved in human rights abuses in states across the world when the definitions of mental disease were expanded to include political disobedience.
 As scholars have long argued, governmental and medical institutions code menaces to authority as mental diseases during political disturbances.
 Nowadays, in many countries, political prisoners are sometimes confined and abused in mental institutions.
 Psychiatric confinement of sane people is uniformly considered a particularly pernicious form of repression. Three (U2 EP)
Three, also known as U2 3, is the first release by Irish rock band U2.
 A three-song EP recorded and released in 1979, it was produced by the band with Chas de Whalley and was available in Ireland when released. Jeremy Jennings
Jeremy Jennings is an English political theorist and Professor of Political Theory at King's College London.
 He is predominantly interested in the history of political thought, often with specific reference to France.
 He has authored a number of books on politics and became the founding editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.
 Further interests include Political Ideology and Contemporary Political Theory.
 He has been employed by the Universities of Swansea and then Birmingham. Political views of Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer.
 Dawkins himself has stated that his political views are left-leaning.
 However, many of Dawkins's political statements have created controversy even among left-wing and atheist communities. Political abuse of psychiatry
Political abuse of psychiatry is the misuse of psychiatry, including diagnosis, detention, and treatment, for the purposes of obstructing the human rights of individuals and/or groups in a society.
 In other words, abuse of psychiatry (including that for political purposes) is the deliberate action of having citizens psychiatrically diagnosed who need neither psychiatric restraint nor psychiatric treatment.
 Psychiatrists have been involved in human rights abuses in states across the world when the definitions of mental disease were expanded to include political disobedience.
 As scholars have long argued, governmental and medical institutions code menaces to authority as mental diseases during political disturbances.
 Nowadays, in many countries, political prisoners are sometimes confined and abused in psychiatric hospitals. Battle of the Palaces
The "Battle of the Palaces" occurred in the Russian Empire in the last decade of the reign of Catherine II (1784–1796) and the reign of Paul I (1796–1801), with ripple effects extending into the beginning of the reign of Alexander I.
 A bitter standoff between Catherine and Paul, her only legitimate son and heir, manifested itself in transient political and ideological conflicts, but also had a lasting, tangible impact on Russian architecture.
 Both parties materialized their political statements and their understanding of sovereign power in expensive construction projects involving the most illustrious architects of the period – Vasily Bazhenov, Vincenzo Brenna, Charles Cameron, Matvey Kazakov, Giacomo Quarenghi, and Ivan Starov.
 Catherine's palace projects followed the neoclassical canon of the Age of Enlightenment, while Paul deliberately leaned to emerging Romanticism.
 Buildings that stylistically fell apart from these programs were demolished or rebuilt without hesitation.
 The "battle" began in 1785 with the demolition of the main palace in Tsaritsyno, and culminated in 1796 with the demolition of Pella, the largest imperial palace in the Saint Petersburg area. Speaking of Dreams
Speaking of Dreams is a 1989 album by Joan Baez that mixed personal compositions like the title song with political statements like "China", which was inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
 (Baez also dedicated the album to the students of Tiananmen Square who "nonviolently, and at an enormous price, have changed the face of China forever.")
 The album featured collaborations with Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and the Gipsy Kings, and marked the beginning of a period where Baez notes she put her music ahead of the political activism that had preoccupied her for much of the prior decade.