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...summer heat lay oppressively low on Shanghai, and Zheng Mingyi, 14, turned to the radio hoping for a diversion from the soaring mercury. What he heard that day changed his life and the lives of every citizen in the most populous nation on earth. In urgent tones, a news reader announced that Mao Zedong was exhorting citizens to rise up and "bombard the headquarters" to rid the party of his rivals and enemies. That day the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, announced two months before, took hold...
...been in Seattle on and off for nine months, helping organize this mobilization on behalf of the advocacy group Public Citizen, with a coalition of unions, environmental groups, faith-based and human-rights networks, family farmers and consumers. We knew this confrontation between civil society and corporate rule was going to be exciting when we went to the Ruckus Society's direct-action camp in September and learned how to scale overpasses, hang banners and get busted. We knew it was going to be big when we joined the AFL-CIO in planning sessions to mobilize workers from all over...
Dolan is an organizer with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
DIED. HOWARD FAST, 88, best-selling author of vivid historical novels of social justice, including Citizen Tom Paine and Freedom Road; in Old Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...justified in attacking Iraq, the human consequences of the invasion compel us to stand up against the march to war. If, on the other hand, the benefits of war outweigh the costs, then every citizen has a responsibility to push the country towards war. The conflict in Iraq is the defining choice for our generation. Differences of opinion are understandable; apathy...