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ISSUE: VOLUME 46.04 WINTER 2017
What price protest?

How the right of assembly is under threat

The winter 2017 Index on Censorship magazine explores 1968 - the year the world took to the streets - to discover whether our rights to protest are endangered today. Micah White proposes a novel way for protest to remain relevant. Author and journalist Robert McCrum revisits the Prague Spring to ask whether it is still remembered. Award-winning author Ariel Dorfman's new short story -- Shakespeare, Cervantes and spies -- has it all. Anuradha Roy writes that tired of being harassed and treated as second class citizens, Indian women are taking to the streets. Editorial: Poor excuses for not protecting protest | Full contents | Podcast

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Ariel Dorfman
Author
Ariel Dorfman
Author

Ariel Dorfman is a playwright, author, essayist and human rights activist. His play Death and the Maiden won the 1992 Lawrence Olivier award and was adapted into a film.

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Anuradha Roy
Author
Anuradha Roy
Author

Anuradha Roy is an award-winning novelist, journalist and editor. She has written three novels, including Sleeping on Jupiter, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.

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Micah White
Activist
Micah White
Activist

Micah White is an activist, journalist and academic, who co-created Occupy Wall Street. He is author of The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, which was published in 2016.

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Editorial: Poor excuses for not protecting protest

Fifty years after 1968, the year of protests, increasing attacks on the right to assembly must be addressed, argues Rachael Jolley.

Sadly this basic right, the right to protest, is under threat in democracies, as well as, less surprisingly, in authoritarian states. Fifty years after 1968, a year of significant protests around the world, is a good moment to take stock of the ways the right to assembly is being eroded and why it is worth fighting for.

December 2017

Contents

A look at what’s inside the winter 2017 issue, which explores the power of protest.

December 2017

Magazine Extra: Podcast

Featuring interviews with Pavel Theiner, an observer of the Prague Spring, Sujatro Ghosh, an Indian artist protesting unfair treatment of women and Steven Borowiec on the South Korea leader. Also hear from Floyd Abrams about threats to the First Amendment.

December 2017

Magazine launch

A look at the magazine launch party for the winter 2017 issue #WhatPriceProtest

December 2017

Special focus: Book fairs and freedom

After Gothenburg and Frankfurt book fairs faced tension over who was allowed to attend, we asked four leading thinkers, Peter Englund, Ola Larsmo, Jean-Paul Marthoz, Tobias Voss, to debate the issue.

December 2017

China’s middle-class revolt

As China’s economy slows, an unexpected group has started to protest – the country’s middle class. Robert Foyle Hunwick reports on how effective they are

December 2017

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