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...Labor-reform efforts, Sari says, will probably be met by strikes and protests?the kind of civil unrest Yudhoyono would like to avoid. The potential wrath of the unions was on display Sept. 21 outside the High Court in central Jakarta. Hundreds of workers laid off last year from aircraft maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia raged in protest when the court rejected their claim that layoffs were conducted illegally. Nandang Rusmana, a mechanic who worked at Dirgantara for 20 years, is still unemployed more than a year after he lost his job and is borrowing money from his family to keep...
...have forgotten how we ever managed to ride in this damn thing without murdering one another. "I'm driving this car," says Papa George, "and I say we're listening to Toby Keith." Mama Laura taps her toes while Uncle John hums a Peter, Paul and Mary tune in protest. In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half start shouting to drown them out. Outside the window, vast prairies and scenic prospects pass by, and dark storm clouds gather, unnoticed...
...with his standing damaged by the news from Baghdad, his power to persuade is limited - as was obvious from the buoyant spirits at the Liberal Democrats' conference last week. The only major party to oppose the war, its credibility has been enhanced. "We are moving from a party of protest to a party of power," said leader Charles Kennedy. "Three-party politics are here to stay." Or at least they appear that way. Blair strategists hope that Labour's stutter in the polls will inspire some closing of ranks. At the party conference this week, says a Blair confidant...
...informants and could have been influencing the NPD's extremist policies. The publicity may have been good for the party. In September's election in the western state of Saarland, it won 4% of the vote, heralding its revival. The NPD's success in Saxony is partly due to protest voters angry about Schröder's economic reforms, especially plans to reduce unemployment benefits. NPD national chairman Udo Voigt claims there would be no unemployment in Germany if the government spent its money exclusively on Germans, and not on things like welfare payments to immigrants. "We succeeded in crystallizing...
Like so many other students and activists, workers and professionals, I went to New York for the Republican National Convention. I went as a concerned citizen to protest the policies of a political party whose divisive and reckless platform troubles me deeply. And although it was invigorating to participate directly in a democratic process which has become so stilted and stale, I came away from New York with a restless unease about the ability of individuals to effect change in this...