With gratitude to the LA Times, Susan Brenneman, Wesley Bausmith, Cherry Gee. Happy New Year!
The Chinese practice of institutionalizing dissidents is coming more to light. This small article about a farmer Xu Lindong. who dared to challenge authority, was placed in a mental hospital and then was released after 6 1/2 years with $43,000 in damages. There is an increase in protests and activism there as well as a … Read more
Last night at the opera. Debussy shone supreme, as did the singers. The show in the audience was a close second.
Here’s my Year End Review for Need to Know.
Edited and animated by Jacob Williams and Bryan Brinkman, respectively, of The Refinery.
Here’s to a wakeful 2011.
Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.
In 2010 some of the most significant stories played out as if they weren’t.
Blacklisted from academia and barred from publishing in China, Mr. Liu has been harassed and detained repeatedly since 1989, when he stepped into the drama playing out on Tiananmen Square by staging a hunger strike and then negotiating the peaceful retreat of student demonstrators as thousands of soldiers stood by with rifles at the ready. … Read more
