Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Banning is one of the most chilling methods for suppressing dissent in South Africa. There is no requirement for formal charges, no trial, no appeal. Individual cases vary, but banned people may be confined to specific districts away from their homes and are often restricted to their quarters at night or on weekends. They must report regularly to the police and are never permitted to meet socially with more than one person at a time. (The authorities recently made a brief exception: Mrs. Mandela was allowed to attend her brother's funeral. On her way home...
...yard of folk superstition, passes for the most advanced medical thinking." Sontag attempts to refute such theories, ascribing them to fear and ignorance in the face of a disease that eludes any comprehensive cure. Yet, cogent arguments seem pale beside Zorn's anguished testimony. Testimony that drowns out dissent through its own vehemence...
...thousands of the nation's youth. If the government attempted to hunt down and jail that many people, it would transform the country into nothing less than a police state. The late Sixties and early Seventies also taught that the draft is used as a means of suppressing domestic dissent. There are many who remember the special attention anti-war organizers received from the Selective Service and local draft boards...
Chojecki discounted reports that resistance to martial law is dying down, saying that nearly 80 per cent of workplaces are shut down, that large numbers of journalists have refused to take loyalty oaths to the government, and that there are still police patrols in the streets suppressing dissent...
...make it almost impossible for students to receive fair hearings. It met behind closed doors, accepted hearsay evidence, prohibited appeals outside of itself and did not give students equal representation in its membership. Because of these conditions and because students felt the CRR existed only to stifle political dissent, they boycotted the committee from the outset...