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But public petitions are, if anything, far more open to abuse than secret ballots. These cards are solicited by union organizers and signed in a face-to-face process that inherently involves intimidation and peer-pressure. If a half-dozen co-workers show up at your door (these cards can...
Chen's only recourse now is China's Byzantine petitioning system, a holdover from imperial days that exists in parallel with the legal system. As Li notes, it is rare for a petition even to be accepted by the relevant office, much less be acted on. And in many cases...
The appeal to nationalism, predictably enough, brought an avalanche of outrage. Rui's online petition to remove Starbucks from the Forbidden City garnered half a million signatures; the Beijing News carried the story; Starbucks PR people made placating noises (there are already 200 outlets in China and the company aims...
In May 2001, TIME published my article about democracy denied in Qixia. A few weeks later, the four Qixia village chiefs showed up at our Beijing bureau while I was out. "There are some peasants to see you," an alarmed assistant informed me. "They seem quite scared. You'd better...
Last Tuesday, a sufficiently large minority of the Massachusetts Legislature voted to advance a 2008 ballot referendum that, if approved by the Commonwealth’s electorate, will impose a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. In so doing, the Legislature compromised one of the most fundamental principles of our...