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Article: New Works Redefine Political Movement
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- The Washington Post
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- October 18, 2009
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Freedom of movement has often been fraught with drama. Who gets
to move about and why, and who does not -- these questions have
sparked invasions, wars, racial and ethnic discrimination, border
controls.
Moving freely can be a political act. It can also be metaphoric.
Sometimes it can be both.
Midnight, Oct. 3, 1990: The border separating East and West
Germany officially dissolved, and young Berliners celebrated by
shoving themselves through the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of the
political divide ever since it had been closed off by the Berlin
Wall. I was living in Germany at the time and was part of that
stampeding crowd, marking passage to a new era in an especially
physical way.
The ...