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...garb as he heads to class or Boston as part of the Mission Hill After School Program, which he helps coordinate. “Not dressing like that doesn’t mean that you still don’t rep that neighborhood,” says the social activist and blogger. “It’s just that you’re becoming an adult.” “Chimaobi acts scary but he’s really a big-ass teddy bear,” says friend Andrew H. Golis...
...There’s not a thing that our people haven’t gone through in the 350 years since the invaders came,” said Tall Oak Weeden, an historian, activist, and elder in the Wampanoag-Pequot tribe...
...also comprise the “noise and hardcore” duo The Facts We Hate, began the Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll. The organization aims to increase accessibility to the music scene and music resources on campus. Hufstedler is also an activist. She is an outspoken member of the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Trans Task Force, and an intern at the Women’s Center. She is a vegan, which she feels symbolically “makes people think about systems of oppression that extend beyond human ones...
...leaders, including President Hu Jintao, speak often of the importance of "administering the country according to law." The legal profession and legal education have mushroomed; China's government has enacted thousands of new laws; and major institutions like the legislatures and the courts have been strengthened and professionalized. But activist lawyers who try to take advantage of these developments still face enormous obstacles. Many courts simply refuse to take certain cases. "If the subject is sensitive or new, most judges will just decide they don't want the hassle," says Guo Jianmei, founder of the Peking University Center for Women...
...news media, which are still subject to Party control, are often unable to cover the most sensitive cases. One story that has been reported extensively in the foreign press but that has remained off limits to journalists in China is the case of Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist detained by police last year after he tried to help victims of a forced-abortion campaign sue their local government. Convicted in August of destroying property and "organizing a mob to block traffic," Chen was sentenced to four years in prison. A higher court ordered a retrial, but the conviction...