The Resistance and the Left: Article by Naomi Klein. Intro: "My first run-in with Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army came on March 31 in Baghdad. The U.S. occupation chief, Paul Bremer, had just sent armed men to shut down the young cleric's newspaper, Al Hawza, claiming that its articles comparing Bremer to Saddam Hussein incited violence against Americans. Sadr responded by calling for his supporters to protest outside the gates of the Green Zone, demanding Al Hawza's reopening. When I heard about the demo, I wanted to go, but there was a problem: I had been visiting state factories all day, and I wasn't dressed appropriately for a crowd of devout Shiites. Then again, I reasoned, this was a demonstration in defense of journalistic freedom — could they really object to a journalist in loose pants? I put on a head scarf and headed over." Link
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