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...might still be tilling his family's paddies. The floods left 200 fellow villagers homeless, and the government promised $2,000 per family in compensation. Lu says because of local corruption, not all the money reached the families. In 2001, Lu bought a copy of China Reform-Rural magazine, which 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...
...follow Beijing's lead. China does have enlightened laws on the books, but often they are ignored. Activists like Lu seek to ensure the laws are obeyed. "We're seeing a real grassroots movement organized around local abuses, and that's never happened in China's 25 years of reform," says Robin Munro of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, a workers' rights group. Campaigners are working in the one area where China has true democracy. The vast majority of villages are allowed to elect their local chiefs, although many elections remain improperly run or rigged. Activists hope...
...protection of the legitimate interests of common people. Sometimes Beijing punishes local governments in order to defuse popular tension, sometimes it allows local governments to pursue their interests freely. But as unrest continues to mount, how long will Beijing be able to strike this balance without real political reform...
...Instead, Petrich said, the CLC “needs people to promote parties who are as excited as possible, and it needs to make more of an effort than e-mails and posters.” This suggestion brought up another issue tackled last year when a UC Reform Commission proposed instituting direct elections to each of the UC branches. This would have changed the current system of elections to the UC, in which the representative with the most votes from each House or Yard chooses a committee on which to serve—either the Financial Committee, the Student...
...chair to get elected with only two semesters of UC experience in at least five years. JOHN S. HADDOCK ’07: Haddock joined the UC and SAC as a sophomore, becoming SAC vice-chair last semester and working on projects such as 24-hour libraries and reform of the blocking groups and inter-house transfer systems. Vice-chair last semester, Haddock was a favorite for the the chair position this year, but he was defeated by Gadgil. Haddock is now one of three vice-chairs of SAC. JOHN F. VOITH III ’07: Voith...