It’s pretty difficult to tell whether or not such protests would be successful or not. For example, back in 1989, there were a lot of successful non-violent and violent revolutions that took place. The Fall of the Berlin War, the Velvet Revolution, and Solidarity were all pretty successful in creating democratic governments in Eastern Europe. [...]
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Iranian Protests from a Historical Perspective
Posted in china, economics, politics, tiananmen, tagged china, democracy, election, human rights, iran, protests, revolution on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
6-4
Posted in china, politics, tagged 6-4, china, politics, tiananmen massacre on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Another anniversary date has come and gone (at least in China). The media frenzy in the west with its coverage of human rights in China will slowly fade away and become forgotten for another year. The thousands of protesters in Hong Kong will go back to working, eating, fucking, and sleeping, their candlelight commemoration of the [...]
NPR, Forum, and the Interview with Orville Schell
Posted in china, politics, tagged boycott, china, npr, orville schell, politics, tiananmen on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve read a couple of Orville Schell’s books and some other collected works that he edited, like ‘The China Reader’, so I was really excited when I heard he was being interviewed on NPR. For the most part, I like NPR. ‘This American Life’ is a pretty awesome, ‘Prairie Home Companion’ has made me a [...]
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