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Nick Forster had the idea for Etown in 1990, when he returned to the U.S. after touring in Eastern Europe. The environmental devastation he saw there - the legacy of communist misrule - inspired him to do something to stem the tide of climate change. He realized - given his fundamental belief in the power of live music to bring people together - that a radio show was the answer. On Earth Day 1991 Etown broadcast its first show. "We wanted to build a community through music," he says. "The music was always the hook to bring people...
...Chinese Communist Party wasn't explicitly mentioned, but since it holds virtually all of the power in China, the articles were clearly about how to limit the party's all-pervasive reach and allow the Chinese people some wiggle room. Anything that touches on limiting the power of the party is extremely sensitive - and often very dangerous. So amid the euphoria of the Olympics, it was pretty gutsy of Southern Window to publish stories with headlines like, "When Administrative Power Obstructs the Law" and "Putting 'Boxing Gloves' on Police Powers...
...found yourself at Beijing's Capital Gymnasium on Friday afternoon, you might have thought you had stepped back into the Cold War. Part of it was the venue itself - a squat, concrete block of Communist architecture, an almost quaint anomaly amid the city's gleaming new sports cathedrals. Inside, the U.S. and Russian men's volleyball teams faced off for the right to play in Sunday's gold medal match. Their respective fans were whipped into states of shared hysteria and the Chinese joined in, just for the fun of it. Though relations between Washington and Moscow are worse than...
...early '50s he was a well-known poet, journalist and civil rights and labor activist. Like his friend Paul Robeson and others, Davis perceived the Soviet Union as a "staunch foe of racism" (as he later put it in his memoirs), and at one point he joined the Communist Party. "I worked with all kinds of groups," Davis explained. "My sole criterion was this: Are you with me in my determination to wipe out white supremacy...
...conservative group Accuracy in Media (AIM) is eager to paint the radical picture. In press releases and website articles, AIM calls Davis "Obama's Communist Mentor," although by the time they met, Davis had been out of politics for decades, and "mentor" may exaggerate his role in the young man's life. Still, it's clear that Obama did seek advice from the old man and that what he got was undiluted. "You're not going to college to get educated. You're going there to get trained," Davis once warned Obama. "They'll train you so good...