off our backs, January 1st, 2006
Events in Nepal came to a crisis as we were completing this issue of off our backs. After three weeks of protests, dictator King Gyanendra was forced to reinstate parliament--a victory for the Nepalese democracy movement. We interview Sharmila Karki, a Nepalese democracy activist, in this issue. off our backs collective member Angie Manzano was in Nepal during the protests. She joined the demonstrations, and when the police attacked the demonstrators, she was knocked down and beaten, and her camera was broken. But the photos that she took, published in this issue, survived.
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