Word: dissent
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Only days after the first students staged a sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., Harvard graduate student Michael L. Walzer was there to cover the events for Dissent magazine. And just days after that, Walzer was back in Cambridge, organizing students at Harvard and around the Boston area to stage similar protests...
...female comedians who make it big often do so by finding a particular shtick that differentiates them—consider Sarah Silverman’s hyper-vulgarity, Janeane Garofalo’s liberal dissent, or Kathy Griffin’s tabloid trash-talk. These are comics I personally respect and admire, but I don’t think that their brands of comedy have the broad appeal needed to anchor a mainstream network talk show...
...patronage came when Thaksin appointed his cousin as army chief in 2003. That move sparked a backlash among soldiers who were not part of Thaksin's patronage network. They feared the army would become a political tool for the Prime Minister, who was known for his inability to tolerate dissent. In 2006, top generals believed Thaksin was planning to remove them for refusing his orders to crack down on protesters, so they moved against him while he was attending a U.N. meeting in New York. In one of the many ironies in Thai politics, the man they installed as Prime...
...media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul placed sanitary napkins soaked with menstrual blood around a Bangkok monument as part of a spell designed to vanquish Thaksin. Many locals seem to believe that witchcraft will be just as influential in driving the course of Thai politics as good governance or normal political dissent. In the end, that may be the true curse of Thailand's politics...
...preliminary meeting, workshop students experimented with draping saffron material from trees and considered asking exiled Burmese monks to meditate and pass out rice in the yard—an act that references past demonstrations in which monks symbolically overturned rice bowls to express their dissent against the military. Sugarman, who had envisioned a slightly simpler project, was thrilled by the way her ideas grew during the initial dialogue between the artists and activists in the workshop...