Sam Howe Verhovek on the Rebellion of the Displaced.

residents have launched a vigorous public protest and lawsuit that has attracted considerable attention here, in no small measure because the would-be developer of the site is at the center of a real estate fraud scandal that is being investigated by Beijing authorities and could yet ensnare other developers and even government officials here...Many of the plaintiffs and others who have taken part in increasingly public protests over their forced relocation say their real goal is not so much to preserve the old housing. Few wax nostalgic about the confined, dingy tenements where they live now, and a common goal of most protesters is to secure an affordable apartment in one of the new high-rises planned for the spot where they were living.

Hmm. That's all very well, but there's nary a word about Chinese government accusations that Zheng Enchong, the lawyer helping the residents, was "revealing state secrets". Or how Zhou Zhengyi's case may reflect badly on Jiang Zemin.