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...simply a place to file and forget American mistakes - and its population mainly sits around sweltering in the deadly desert heat, without adequate food, sanitation or medical attention. Now and then, insurgents subject it to mortar fire, randomly killing some of its inhabitants, who from time to time riot in protest over their treatment. If there's a grace note to be found in this grim tale it is provided by an American guard, a former real estate agent named Benjamin Thompson, an open-faced innocent who cannot believe that the nation whose uniform he wears can enforce...
...leveled later against the overwhelmingly white, middle-class makeup of the Second Wave. Third Wave feminism arose in the mid 1980s and 90s, adding emphasis to queer theory and racial challenges. Part of this movement involved the cultural development of Girl Power, originally exemplified by the no-holds-barred Riot Grrrl and later by a series of pop-stars (Spice Girls, anyone?) as a commercial strategy to sell music and clothes. It’s difficult to imagine a time when the underground prevalence of feminist political magazines bearing titles like “Diabolical Clits?...
...Confined by the riot police to a downtown square, the protesters, who chanted "Russia without Putin!" "Down with the corrupt authorities!" and "Revolution!" broke through the police cordons and marched down Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg's main avenue. Squad cars wedged in the angry marchers ranks, and riot police moved in, wielding clubs and throwing smoke grenades. It took several hours to disperse the crowds and restore police control over the area. The authorities later claimed that 50 protesters were detained. The Other Russia, however, states that at least two hundred protesters were taken into custody and beaten, with hundreds...
...While the OMON riot cops were dispersing and beating up the Other Russia in St. Petersburg, several hundred people gathered for a quieter but no less emotionally packed protest action in Moscow. They were mostly senior citizens, who argue that they have worked all their lives for the state and now are dying because they can't survive on the state's meager pensions...
...Popular discontent in Russia rises along with prices and utility rates. And in the absence of legitimate expression, it pours out into the street, where protests are met with clubs and smoke grenades of the riot police. Two years ago, the authorities spent $12 billion to quell a nationwide wave of protests, caused by abrupt canceling of social benefits, in order to prevent the dissent from growing into conspicuous melees in main cities like the one this weekend. But the money doled out then has been now superseded by the growing costs of life. And a new such massive financial...