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Reimagining the Landscape of Fear

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. Posted September 29, 2004.


Rights are like muscles, they disappear if you don't use them.

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Rebecca Solnit is the author of 'Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities' and seven other books, including the award-winning 'River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West.'

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