Word: freedom
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...worldwide, if need be through terrorism and murder. How many more deaths will it take for us to understand that we face a cruel, well-coordinated and determined enemy? How long will we in the West allow open terrorist propaganda in mosques and religious schools? Muslim terrorists use democracies' freedom of speech, association and movement against them. It is time we abandoned political correctness and started calling things as they are. Alan Carpenter, Cairns, Queensland...
...Charter 08, which takes its title and inspiration from the "Charter 77" document that demanded rights for Czechoslovakia in 1977, called for an extensive list of rights in China, including free speech, freedom to form political parties, an independent legal system and direct elections. The 4,000-word document was released during a time of several sensitive anniversaries, including 100 years after the promulgation of China's first constitution, 60 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 30 years after Beijing's "Democracy Wall" movement. The charter was first signed by 303 intellectuals living...
...Opinion polls in France show that slightly more than half the population want shops to have the freedom to open on Sundays. But a powerful range of opponents combined against the idea. Leftist politicians and unions, for example, denounced the plan as introducing a seven-day work week. That, they say, would allow bosses to force workers to work Sundays - despite measures in the original bill that stipulated Sunday hours were both optional, and higher-paid. Conservatives, meantime, brushed off Sarkozy's assurances that the extra day of activity would boost France's economy, and focused on the fact that...
...many, art is an area in which individualism is exalted and freedom of expression is glorified, but to define art as such would be to take artistic freedom for granted. “The Art of Subversion: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union,” an exhibit at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies running until Jan. 22, showcases artists that struggled to uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task...
...understood that a film moves forward on the axis of narrative. Equally fundamental is the notion that the viewer consents to that narrative. For Nathaniel Dorsky—an experimental filmmaker, professional film editor, and film essayist—these rules impose unnecessary constraints on the freedom of the process. Instead, he says, the very idea of the moving image implies a sort of narrative.“Film is a narrative form. Something is laid out and builds upon it continually,” Dorsky says. The viewer has no prescribed conceit, no narrative to give consent to. Narrative...