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...hard to imagine getting overheated about a chain of uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea. But a Japanese activist last week crashed a bus through the gates of the Chinese consulate in Osaka, livid about the mainland's claim of sovereignty over the DIAOYU ISLANDS. The Diaoyus?known in Japan as the Senkakus?have been under Japanese control for more than a century, but feuds still rage over who owns them. In March, Chinese nationalists planted a flag on Diaoyu soil; their subsequent arrest by the Japanese navy led to furious demonstrations in Beijing, with Chinese protesters burning Japanese...
...culture is nothing new for Gab. Blackalicious have garnered much critical acclaim for their interesting collaborations with other artists, especially musicians not known for fitting into the narrow hip-hop roles of DJ and MC. On Blazing Arrow, songs featured people such as slam poet and activist Saul Williams, Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha and the legendary poet and jazz singer Gil Scott-Heron (most famous for his fiery work, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?...
...State Department said this week it is investigating reports that Kennedy School of Government graduate and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli has been physically abused in the Beijing prison where he has been held for almost two years...
...Charles Hamilton Houston was a scholar and an activist who had a tremendous impact on American society. Some have called him the man who stopped Jim Crow,” HLS Dean Elena Kagan said in a statement released yesterday. “[I]n many ways, Charles Ogletree continues the work of Houston today—I’m thrilled that he will lead this new institute...
DIED. LARISA BOGORAZ, 74, one of seven Soviet dissidents who in 1968 participated in a risky demonstration in Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia; of a stroke; in Moscow. The linguist and human-rights activist, who spent four years exiled in a Siberian woodworking plant, once wrote an open letter to KGB chief Yuri Andropov to inform him that she was keeping a record of Soviet oppression...