City Squares

IKADA, Jakarta, September 1945. Wenceslas, Prague, January 1969. Tiananmen, Beijing, June 1989. Midan Tahrir, Cairo, February 2011.

In these city squares, politics in its myriad forms converge. Clash. People risk their lives for freedom. Or the reverse: people gamble with repression, bet on the future while subjugating rebels with weapons. Or words.

In Jakarta in 1945, a public meeting was called to support the proclamation of independence tha

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