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Saturday, December 17, 2011

17 December - My Yahoo!

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Howard ZinnCover of Howard Zinn
From Tunis and Tahrir to Wall Street, and back again
Since Bouazizi's self-immolation dictators across the Arab world have been ousted, but is the old system still in place?
The lack of hope or possibility to find decent work, or overcome the corruption and repression there that defined life in the town, was a microcosm of political and economic life in Tunisia under Zine Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt under Hosni Mubarak and most every other country in the region.

Six ingredients that have become paradigmatic in the Arab Spring were in place in Tunisia the fateful day of December 17 - a youthful population, an internet savvy, multi-lingual and cosmopolitan activist cadre, a working class that had already stood up to a bloody government crackdown, a religious movement with deep roots in society, a regime that had devolved from authoritarian to just plain mafia and a population that had lost all hope - and thus all fear.
Nasri 4 hours ago
"...democracy is a means, not an end" this is a central idea in our struggle for dignity and freedom. It's important to build  the democratic institutions but more important is to build the mecanisms able to put them into the sevice of the people. It has been made clear through history that in many places, including the United States, the so called democratic institutions fell short of fullfilling their instituted assignments and people found themselves obliged to take to the streets and press for their rights (take for example the labour mouvement in the US in the 1930's, and civil mouvement during the 1960's...) . It looks absurd to have such huge institutions and complicated system of so called checks and balances and in the end people have to go back to their most primitive institution, the street, to claim their rights.

Here, I'd like to quote professor Howard Zinn as saying " what matters for me is not who is sitting in the white house, what matters for me is who is sitting in", so the challenge for me is how to keep the street alive without pushing the population into exhaustion. 
John Kendall 6 hours ago
Mark says

''Ultimately, however, no matter how well organised the emerging democracy and justice movement become, transforming a global system that has taken decades and even centuries to evolve is a herculean task. ''

Here's where I think Mark falls into a Cartesian moment . It is Capitalism in all its contradictions that creates the revolutionary movement taking place all over the world . It often takes a contradictory form , but nonetheless , necessity is driving change .

Struggles all over the world will now transform , and change their methods , and will move from protests in Town squares to actively taking over workplaces and community organisations .

Capitalism is firmly on the edge of its contradictions and its financial and economic centres are just on the cusp of falling into the abyss, and Mark knows this but leaves it unemphasised. However this more than any other factor will drive millions into action out of necessity.

The Middle East will not be defined just from inside itself , but by what is happening in the West .It is an interpenetration of opposites in unity. The speed and qualitative change of each facet is connected to the other , and by the laws that govern the whole.

Historians are good at describing the world , but not so good at explaining it . Try being true to the Dialectic Mark ,......and start from the whole and not the part...it would be a whole lot more useful to all of us in the long run.
 
 
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To everyone asking who burnt the Scientific Society building, I ask who didn't put out the fire? And why?
( Who remembers the decapitation of teachers, doctors and scientists in Iraq during the Occupation ) 
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Is this what the Egyptian army is now doing to female protesters???? Shocking
 
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Citizen journalists and others report army officers entering flats / hotels overlooking , confiscating cameras
 
 

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