Bhutto: when a charismatic leader dies

In a country like Pakistan or India, when a charismatic leader dies, people are not sure that the traditions he symbolized will continue—there’s a lot of illiteracy and there isn’t the same access to information. So they tend to transfer allegiance from a male leader to a female descendant, in the hope that his policies will be continued. But in Westernized societies, it’s a little different, because people have greater education and greater access to information—they don’t have the same need to be sure of the message of the leader. here

Jesse Jackson on Wall Street

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"Not so much telling ... as...retelling old folk tales,”

Teachers College Demonstration
Professor Constantine has a right to feel violated and disgusted, but rather than a lonely voice in danger of being silenced, there’s almost nothing at American universities more welcomed than a professor who specializes in the study of racism. PETER APPLEBOME nyt
Columbia University, Teacher's College, Noose Incident video

Buddhist monks demonstrate at UN - Spooks take note

Free Burma demonstration, September 27, 2007

“The big missing piece of the puzzle is what is going on in the minds of the senior leadership,” said Thant Myint-U, a former United Nations official, “Nothing that they have said in the last 20 years would suggest that they will back down.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

On Monday, September 24th, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke and participated in a question and answer session with university faculty and students at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum.
This was the demonstration

Barney Rubin, a New York University professor who attended the dinner hosted by Ahmadinejad, said he felt that, despite the unprecedented access to the Iranian president this year, most people will continue to see what they want to see: either a man from a misunderstood country who can be reasoned with, or an evil dictator who must be confronted