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...repressive junta that has ruled Burma for 45 years, the recent sight of shaven-headed clerics marching the streets has been anything but soothing. For more than a week now, tens of thousands of Buddhist clerics have rallied across the country, their daily alms routes turned into paths of protest. Some walked quietly with their begging bowls overturned - an implied excommunication of the military leaders whose punitive fuel hikes provoked the first demonstrations back in August. Initially, Burma's generals tried to extinguish the protests by arresting dozens of pro-democracy activists who had kick started the civil disobedience...
...spiritual serenity. Yet for the repressive junta that has ruled for 45 years, the sight of shaven-headed clerics marching the streets has been anything but soothing. For more than a week, tens of thousands of monks have rallied across the country, turning what started in August as a protest against fuel-price hikes into a much more potent threat to the generals' rule. Some of the monks turned their begging bowls upside down, a gesture that traditionally denotes excommunication but now also carries a political message: they want the junta out. After holding back for several days--during which...
...stop whining and get with the program?” It allows race relations to be solely a black issue, and not a national issue—it’s the reason why the vast majority of people who care enough to march down to Jena, La. to protest racially motivated injustice are black. The more white people see themselves as the rational and intelligent ones here, and black people as the opposite, the more it reeks of the superior beliefs that are the hallmark of racism...
Last Thursday, 10,000 civil rights activists from across the country rallied in Jena, La. to protest and commemorate events that occurred in and around the local high school. A series of racially-motivated altercations culminated in a cafeteria brawl in December 2006. The victim, a white student who allegedly taunted the black students with racial slurs, was hospitalized but released a few hours later and attended a party that evening. The defendants, six black minors, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder...
Whereas previous scholarship on the 1960s has focused on the perspective of participants in the protest movements of the decade, a new journal co-edited by Lecturer on History and Literature John C. McMillian aims to feature a diverse range of historical views and reach a broad audience. The journal, entitled “The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture,” is set to launch in June of 2008. “This journal is meant to be written in a jargon-free, accessible way,” McMillian said. “It?...