Fighting
the Power
Due to a Capital City Rescue Mission policy requiring patrons
to sit through a Christian prayer service before receiving
a free meal, Eugene Burt stopped seeking help from the mission;
Eugenie Mukeshimana and her daughter, Mystica, moved to
Albany to start a new life after fleeing the Rwandan genocide
of the mid-1990s; Roumen Dimitrov, who was doing postdoctoral
research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was forced
to leave the university and return to his home country of
Bulgaria after becoming embroiled in a dispute over intellectual
property; after four years of being knocked around in family
court, which included a no-contact order with his children,
George Ihlenburg decided to take his case to the court of
public opinion, a decision that earned him six months in
jail.
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