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...musicians rebuke and encourage the people back home. Protest songs may have largely died out in the West after the Vietnam era. But in southern Africa, where music is more than just a soundtrack to people's lives, they still matter. "When I sing, I am raising the Zimbabwean flag," says Mtukudzi. If Mugabe, nature and circumstance have brought the nation to its knees, then these patriots are singing "Stand up!" You have to wonder whether Mapfumo and Mtukudzi are experiencing déj? vu. Both rose to prominence in the Harare township of Highfields in the 1970s, during...
...year before, I had no idea that police brutality was still very much on residents’ minds. When I arrived in Cincinnati, I immediately encountered a small, but loud group of black men and women holding signs railing against racial injustice. One man stood on top of a flag calling the police the real terrorists while others held up pictures of men killed by Cincinnati cops...
...York rally included a broad mix of groups—from Ivy-League college students to organized labor, the anarchist Black Bloc to the American-flag-toting Veterans for Peace. We are glad to see Harvard students active in this new movement, leaving their insular campus to declare their opposition to war. As students in positions of extreme privilege, we should not retreat to an ivory tower but stay vocal and involved in the broader political world—if not through our government, then in the streets...
...better job, Rangel has joined with South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings to introduce a bill that would reinstate the draft, which ended 30 years ago. "We're going through a period of what I call patriotism lite," says Rangel, a decorated Korean War vet. "Put a flag on your SUV, but when it comes to making a sacrifice, you hold the coat while someone else does the fighting...
Unfortunately, given the strength of this ideology amidst the ruling elite, simply disarming Saddam today will not prevent his future attempts to promote terrorism and revolution. Without real regime change, other Baath leaders will continue to hoist the poisonous Baath flag of violent revolution...