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...educates peasants on their legal rights. He visited the magazine's office in Beijing and talked with its editors. Later, the magazine invited Lu to a conference on peasant rights with China's leading legal scholars. "I realized then that I could use the Village Committee Organizing Law to impeach my village chief," Lu recalls. Eleven months later he did just that, and even won a seat on his "township people's congress" as an independent write-in candidate...
...Banglie was once a hero in Beijing. A 34-year-old farmer from the rice-basket province of Hubei, he was praised last year by the Communist Party-owned China Youth Daily for leading a movement to impeach a village chief who residents say was corrupt. The paper told Lu's tale: launching a five-day hunger strike, getting roughed up by thugs and investigating political conditions in other villages across China. When his campaign finally forced his village chief to resign in 2003, the paper said, Lu emerged as "the front runner of peasant grassroots democracy...
...That was then. Last week, Lu was beaten unconscious in the Pearl River Delta town of Taishi, where? accompanied by a journalist from the Guardian, a British newspaper?he had gone to help residents impeach their own village chief. "Three hundred meters from the village headquarters, we were stopped by men on motorcycles and the car was suddenly surrounded by many people," Lu told TIME last week, speaking in a safe house in Wuhan. "They recognized me and said 'That's the one!' I guess they'd been shown my picture. They opened the door and dragged...
...there no one else?" EDMUNDO REYES, Filipino congressman, pleading for the six signatures necessary to pursue a call for impeachment against Philippines president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Her congressional allies successfully blocked moves to impeach her last week...
That cause was an unprecedented resolution to impeach President Ferdinand Marcos on charges that he and his family and friends have enriched themselves at the country's expense. The action was sparked by a report in the San Jose Mercury-News, a California daily newspaper, that the Marcos clan has invested some $766 million in real estate in the U.S. and Europe. Marcos' party, which controls the Batasan, easily defeated the motion before the committee. But the President was not relishing his victory. "It's hard to just laugh off these things when you're hurt," he said. "It makes...