The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Key dates in the revolutions that swept across eastern Europe 2 May Hungary dismantles the barbed wire and electric fencing on its borders with Austria. Moscow does not act. 3 June Solidarity, the Polish trade union that became a social movement, wins virtually every seat it contests . 23 August Protesters form 400-mile human chain in Baltic states, demanding autonomy from Moscow. September...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Unfortunately, it doesn't take much. Minnesotta wingnut Republican House member Michele Bachmann called on the teabagging protesters to descend on the US Capitol building today to "scare" Members of Congress into not passing health care reform. Read the article, it's quite illustrative. Bachmann notes that Democrats got "scared" by the Teabagging protests last August,...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This morning, Bachmann called such planned confrontations "all about true democracy in action."She also said the protesters will "remind members of the lessons of August," when protesters known as tea partiers disrupted congressional town hall meetings across the country.In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity,...
