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MEMBER BLOG TAG: democracy

Monday, May 4, 2009 3:52PM
 
Circumcision, Thought, and Freedom
Tags: Writing and Freedom, Freedom to Write, Illusion of Democracy, American Dictatorship, Nawal el Saadawi, Richard Crasta, Double Standards, Brown Men and Brown Women, Francine Prose, Rick Moody, SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association
 

Nawal el Saadawi's Lessons in Freedom

Alas, the Brown Woman's (and Brown Man's) Burden. To teach the Western world to think, to think in...

 
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:06PM
 
Charter 08: Decade of the Citizen
Tags: China, Charter 08, Liu Xiaobo, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Human Rights, Democracy, PEN, Inauguration, Barak Obama
 

   

Grandstands are rising around Washington, DC. The U.S. is preparing for the Inauguration of a new President whose campaign mobilized a record number of citizens and focused on themes of hope and change.  

Half way around the globe in the world’s most populous country, a relatively small group of citizens are proposing radical change for their nation, change which reflects in large part the ideals upon which the United States was founded. However, the proponents of this change have been interrogated and arrested.

On December 10, the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 300 leading mainland Chinese citizens—writers, economists, political scientists, retired party officials, former newspaper editors, members of the...

 
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