Emmapemma Wenjun Xu

This is a video from BBC.com.uk. It’s about the new rising Neo-Nazis in Russia. According to the video, some Russian young people are trying to use physical violence to force non-white migrants leave the country. A parliament man who is running for president of the country said,”only educated white people should be allowed to come.” I find this movement is dehumanizing migrants. In fact, the migrants bring in cheap labour and economic opportunities to Russia although some Russian lose their jobs. The Russian government should focus on how to balance between unemployment and globalization. Undoubtedly, Neo-Nazis is absolutely infamous.

 Here is the link to the video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7100000/newsid_7106700/7106706.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=54

I just finished watching a movie called This is What Democracy Looks Like. It is a documentary on 1999 Seattle Anti-WTO Protest. As we all know, WTO is an organization which promoting economic globalization. It does benefit corporations and governments. However, it hurts workers who can get job before, but are not competitive enough after foreign trade being operated. Approximately 50,000 people joined the protest. Among them, there are people coming from different job positions, ranging between different ages, and belonging to different ethnic groups. The protest was so serious that it blocked WTO representatives from reaching the conference and postponed the WTO conference. In order to dismissal the protesters, the police used OC spray and pepper gas on protesters who claim the protest being peaceful. 630 protesters were arrested and put into jail. People can’t help asking if this is so called democracy ofAmerica? Those people stood together and yielded at the same time to let their voice being heard and believed that they could change the situation if they unite each other.

 The protest did raise awareness among nations afterwards.TheUnited States government began working out measures to protect the working class later. However, it exposed a problem of democracy of the United States. If it is a democratic nation, how democratic it is after all? It allows freedom of speech, but voice of working class can only be heard through this kind of large protest. When the protest grew to be a threat, it decided to apply force on peasants. On government’s position, it has a global role to play, a range of classes’ benefits to take care of as well as a lot other complicated facts to consider. It hopes the public to be cooperated and peaceful. However, these can not be persuasive excuse to ignore working class and place force on them at all.  

I feel it is so ironic that a self-described democratic government, which criticizes others not being democratic enough, hurt its own people whom have already been hurt by its policy. Is democracy an ideology? I think it is.

I checked out the videos on Darfur genocide on youtube.com today. The feeling of mine right now is so hard to describe.

I don’t want to talk cause I have nothing to say about it but feeling helpless……Something I can do for them? something…

here is the link, please check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Darfur