Haunting music for the martyrs of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia.
Posted by A Tunisian Girl بنية تونسية (@benmhennilina).
– We are not Free yet!
– Tunisia’s Revolutionary Blogger and Freedom Fighter: Lina Ben Mhenni, “A Tunisian Girl”
– Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia
After 23 years of iron-fisted rule, Tunisia's president was driven from power by 29 days of violent protests
Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you. — Paulo Coelho
The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better. — Paulo Coelho
If the people one day decide to live, fate must answer and the chains must break.– Abolkacim Ashabi
Violence in Tunisia now is a product of decades of repression. Regime in Egypt must understand that peaceful change is only way out. — Mohamed ElBaradei
When people take to the streets and totalitarian regimes fall, it happens very quickly. When it happens it takes everyone by surprise, even the participants.
Remember the fall of the Berlin Wall? One totalitarian regime after another fell. That was Eastern Europe and the former communist Bloc.
I remember Romania, when Nicolae Ceausescu addressed a square full of people. They booed, they slow hand-clapped, they heckled, the collapse was then extremely rapid.
Now it is the turn of the Arab world. One dictator ousted, forced to flee the country. Tunisia has fallen. Now having seen it can be done, people across the Arab World, across the Middle East, including Iran, must take to the streets and liberate their countries.
Arab leaders watch Tunisia with fear. The people of the Middle East watch with delight. [see Mid-East bloggers hail change in Tunisia]
The BBC tried to interview people on the street in Egypt to ask them their opinion of events in Tunisia. Within minutes the police moved in.
Tunisia has sparked the flame which will sweep clean the Arab world and Iran of corrupt despots. Social media is fanning the flames.
The Mullahs and Ayatollas in Iran are jittery. The Green Revolution summer 2009 almost succeeded, had more people taken to the streets it would have done. Earlier this week, books by Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho were banned. These are now flooding Iran free to download from the net in farsi. Those who dare to openly criticise the regime are imprisoned and tortured. [see Iran denies banning Paulo Coelho’s books]
Where the Green Revolution in Iran failed, the Jasmin Revolution in Tunisia has succeeeded. The despot has gone, forced to flee the country, the regime though is still in place but for how long?
As we saw with the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, once started, it is unstopable. [see The Shape of the Table]
Summer 2009 the Green Revolution in Iran made extensive use of social media and in particular twitter. The death of Neda was posted by Paulo Coelho on his blog (the doctor who went to her aid was a close personal friend), it was re-posted and reported by his followers and then went viral. UK Uncut has made use of twitter to report and coordinate actions as has the student protests against the hike in student fees. The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia has made extensive use of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Social networking has come of age.
Shame on Barack Obama. Not a beep from the Coward in the White House when protesters were being killed on the streets of Tunisia. Not a beep from the Coward in the White House until Ben Ali fled the country like a rat up a drain pipe. It is not that he does not know as the wikileaks diplomatic cables shows that he knows. Hilary Clinton knows as that is why she is on what she calls her Apology Tour of the Arab World.
The prisons in Egypt are full to bursting with political prisoners. The biggest recipient of US largesse after the Zionist Sate of Israel is Egypt.
Who will be next, the evil Mullahs and Ayatollas in Iran, the corrupt House of Saud? The flame of freedom has been lit, it will continue to burn until all despots in the Middle East are removed.
As Benazir Bhutto wrote in Reconciliation, democracy and Islam are not contrary or in oposition to each other. The Koran calls for tolerance, pluralism, listening to and heeding all opinion.
According to reports on twitter, YouTube has been blocked in Libya, top level meetings are taking place, an internal state of emergency declared.
The repressive regime in Iran, hated by the people, must be very very worried.
We are all Tunisians now!
Also see
Tunisia: The fall of President Ben Ali
Dedicated To The Liberators Across Our Globe
Tunisian Revolution can inspire the world
Mid-East bloggers hail change in Tunisia
Amidst Violence, Thousands in Tunisia Protest for Democratic Reforms, Demand Ben Ali’s Resignation
Tunisia Leader Flees and Prime Minister Claims Power
Tunisian swears in interim president amid chaos
Tunisia seeks to form unity cabinet after Ben Ali fall
Three questions for Marwan Bishara
Tunisia: A Moment Of Destiny For The Tunisian People And Beyond?
Could other Arab countries follow Tunisia’s example?
The ‘bin Laden’ of marginalisation
Why Tunisia’s Revolution Is Islamist-Free
Iran denies banning Paulo Coelho’s books
Cables From American Diplomats Portray U.S. Ambivalence on Tunisia
Social Media Made Tunisian Uprising Possible
Tunisia unrest a wake-up call for the region
Could other Arab countries follow Tunisia’s example?
To the tyrants of the Arab world …
Tunisia Special: What Happens When an Uprising is Ignored? (Shahryar)
Arab Activism: Brought to you by a White Man
Should twitter receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Tunisia: A media led revolution?
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