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...When the military and police moved to crush the demonstrators, they first went after the monks. Under cover of darkness, say several sources who did not want their names used, doors of monasteries were kicked in and the monks around Shwedagon, including some nuns, were bundled onto trucks and taken away. When asked where the monks had gone, one 30-year-old man who was at Shwedagon in the early days of the protests puts his wrists together in the sign of locked handcuffs. According to Burma's state-run paper, The New Light of Myanmar, raids on 18 monasteries...
Sometimes, the struggle against authority was literal. On Aug. 21, 1968, the day Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, Rostropovich played with the U.S.S.R. State Symphony Orchestra in London. Watched by hovering KGB minders - "Sputniks," the musicians privately called them - he was greeted by shouts of protest. But his performance of the mournful, defiant concerto by the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák brought the hall to a comprehending silence. "As I played, I saw the dead in the Prague streets through my tears," he later said...
...Among dedicated anti-Semites, or passionate supporters of the destruction of Israel, an Israeli film festival would no doubt be interpreted as ‘being political.’ By the same token, among anti-Palestinian racists, or passionate supporters of Israel’s right to crush Palestinians, a ‘festival centered around Palestine’ will no doubt be interpreted as ‘being political.’”“Of course there is a crucial asymmetry,” Chomsky writes. “Palestine is being destroyed before...
...over a loudspeaker, or lock your frenemy’s pet in a frozen-fry filled freezer? Fool that you are, you have been overlooking your most potent weapon: the Harvard section. With an arsenal of a few simple tricks, one hour a week is all you need to crush your nemesis. 1) The Bigot Upper-Cut “By suggesting (insert opponent’s point here), you are basically insinuating that (insert assertion of racism/sexism/xenophobia here). I find that problematic, and, to be honest, deeply troubling.” Effectiveness Factor: 9 Bullshit Factor: Infinite...
...just a corporate problem either: the weight of retiree health-care costs could crush state and local governments. The largest employers in the U.S., state and local governments sign the paychecks for more than 16 million Americans, many of them with generous health benefits in retirement. Municipalities, unlike private companies, are not required to account for their unfunded retirement obligations, but they will be soon...