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...members took office. The group did well this year despite voter intimidation, including some poll closings, witnessed by TIME. A U.S. State Department spokesman still praised the vote as "an important step in the democratic reform process." The many calls for change from the U.S. and Europe, acknowledges Brotherhood activist Essam Erian, "made a difference...
...weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern “Amistad...
...Parks was having a good day," writes Giovanni at the start of her retelling of the Rosa Parks story. But, as most Americans know, that chilly, ordinary workday of an extraordinary seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately helped ignite the civil rights movement. Giovanni, a poet and black activist, keeps her evident moral outrage in check as she tells the tale of Parks' bus ride into history, maintaining the same firm, level tone that Parks did when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Parks, Giovanni writes, was tired. "She was tired...
DIED. VINE DELORIA, 72, sardonic scholar widely regarded as the century's most influential Native American thinker, writer and activist; of complications from an aortic aneurysm; in Denver. In more than 20 books, most famously the 1969 manifesto Custer Died for Your Sins, the Standing Rock Sioux debunked stereotypes and articulated the legitimacy of Native American intellectual and spiritual beliefs, once noting, "We have brought the white man a long...
...With the publication of an English translation last month, readers around the world finally have a chance to see what all the fuss is about. Weaving an account of the sexual awakenings of four young women through different stages in the life of Catholic-priest-turned-rights-activist Saman during the brutal regime of President Suharto, Utami offers a richly nuanced exploration of a grim chapter in Indonesia's recent past. With references to real events and characters, Saman evokes painful memories of an era marked by land grabs, forced evictions and military brutality. "The authorities have the power...