Forum Post: EU awards Arab Spring activists
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 14, 2011, 11:01 p.m. EST by chaires
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these types of story's you won't hear, from within the boarders of the us. sadly you don't live in a free country, anymore.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2011/12/20111214161512466982.html
The European Parliament has awarded five "Arab Spring" activists the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Among the winners, which include both men and women, is Mohamed Bouazizi - a Tunisian fruit seller who set himself on fire in a sign of protest that set the region ablaze with historic revolutionary movements.
Other winners included Egypt's Asmaa Mahfouz and Libyan dissident Ahmed al-Zubair Ahmed al-Sanusi. Syrian winners, lawyer Razan Zeitouneh and cartoonist Ali Farzat, were unable to attend the award ceremony due to ongoing strife in their homeland.
In addition to the honour of being named, the winners will share a prize of $65,000.
Past winners of the Sakharov Prize include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and former UN chief Kofi Annan.
Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba reports. training web page http://tinyurl.com/7rvpv43 works
The anniversary of Mohamed Bouazizi's death is this weekend.
Burlington is planning a candle light vigil.
A candle light vigil for an immolation victim. Ironic.
yeah, well.
I dunno. It is an event that deserves remembrance and commemoration.
There is a bit of irony to it, but does that make it inappropriate?
I don't think so.
It's entirely appropriate. It's the thought that counts for sure. I just couldn't help but see the irony. I sometimes have an offbeat way of looking at things. Hope I didn't seem too callous, I definitely sympathize with his family and friends. We actually had someone do that years ago (St. Louis) in the middle of a busy intersection. It was kind of disturbing driving through there and see the burn spot in the pavement for months after.
Someone else did it in Maine fairly recently.
I'm not sure why.
I've considered it myself, on occasion.
It is one way to . . . illuminate . . . an issue.
It sure is!
History will report that the world freedom movement, began with him--- Mohamed Bouazizi (29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011; Arabic: محمد البوعزيزي) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. His act became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring, inciting demonstrations and riots throughout Tunisia in protest of social and political issues in the country. The public's anger and violence intensified following Bouazizi's death, leading then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down on 14 January 2011, after 23 years in power.
The success of the Tunisian protests inspired protests in several other Arab countries, plus several non Arab countries. The protests included several men who emulated Bouazizi's act of self-immolation, in an attempt to bring an end to their own autocratic governments. Those men and Bouazizi were hailed by some Arab commentators as "heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution."[1] In 2011, Bouazizi was posthumously awarded the Sakharov Prize, jointly along with four others for their contributions to "historic changes in the Arab world".[2]
I misspoke above I take it.
The Revolution has a new theme song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-GOHa5-YQ
http://occupywallst.org/forum/in-the-name-of-allah/
The Revolution starts here!
You people are still praising this?