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...last Friday, scores of police vans wove through the donkey carts on Liaoyang's streets. Workers were demanding the release of four leaders detained by police and the sacking of government official Gong Shangwu, a delegate to the National People's Congress?a dangerous appeal that smacked of political dissent. "It's the first time I've heard of worker demands going beyond economics and into politics," says Ching Kwan Lee, a sociologist at the University of Michigan who researches labor. "Now we have great power," said one worker, "especially if we stay united...
...Dissent: Bureaucratic Disincentives
...Dissent: Let The Core Stay...
...Dissent is stifled as people become afraid to speak up,” he said...
...Dissent: The Good Shepherd