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...officials remember that civil order and corporate authority rarely are equivalent, they can disengage themselves from a particular piece of social oppression. Liberalism, once again, is seen as retreat or strategic withdrawal. But the protection of civil disobedience depends on the state's ability to respond to changing communal values. It depends on the state's responsibility to power being commensurate with the citizen's responsibility to dissent...
...three million people, packed four times as closely together as are New Yorkers, still seems a large village. In each quartier the people know one another and seem fairly close together. Most of the sections of Paris, in fact, are quite disinter from the rest of the city. Would communal living and working facilities for a hundred or a thousand people, inside the giant complexes give people the kind of community they need Or will we have to give up cooperation on a large seale altogether and move back to the farm, where we can get close to the land...
...work. An average and ample income for a typical movement person is only between $100 and $150 a month. Yet $100 can go a long way, given a whole infrastructure of radical institutions-funded largely by liberal contributions. There are co-ops providing cheap food in bulk for communal living, free clinics for quality medical aid for almost everything but major surgery, legal defense funds for free legal assistance and bail money in political cases. Radicals for the most part have no insurance and no credit payments. Furniture is inherited from friends, books borrowed from the library, transportation by bicycle...
...overtures from Moscow and Peking. The island's population is wildly mixed -421,390 Hindus, 227,129 Creoles descended from European plantation owners and imported African slaves, 133,441 Moslems, 25,067 Chinese and a handful of British and French. Most previous attempts to form parties that crossed communal lines had been ineffective. The tensions have now eased considerably, largely because fiery young
Leaders of the women's liberation movement have shown a penchant for oddball causes-from ban-the-bras to communal child rearing-that leave many women cold. Now the liberationists have trained their ire on a new target: the distorted image of women in advertisements. And this time the militants are gaining wide support among women...