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Thousands of people took to the streets of the Tunisian capital demanding to end the rule of the Islamist government, which they accuse of assassinating prominent secular politician, Chokri Belaid.
The March 16 demonstration is the biggest in a series of protest events, which took place in the country after Belaid was shot dead outside his home exactly 40 days ago.
The rallies already lead to Tunisian Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, resigning from his position on March 14. Fellow member of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party, Ali Larayedh, who came in as a replacement, has formed a new coalition government with independents in key ministries.
But the move wasn’t enough to calm the people as they chanted "Ennahda go", "The people want a new revolution" and "The people want to bring down the regime" during their demonstration on Saturday.
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David__77
(23,879 posts)Revolutions must bring not just destruction, but construction in their wake. If the new leaders cannot make people enjoy better lives, live longer, healthier, happier lives - what was the point? If it takes 10 years to restore order, would it have been worth it?
dtom67
(634 posts)You occasionally hear this when you talk about the corporate owned political structure of the US; the idea of a "popular uprising". Such things worry me, in that they might easily be hijacked by those with their own agenda. Or that the end result will be just the exchange of one "Master of the Universe" for another. Or the only change would be an increase in government brutality towards its citizenry.
If the Monetary system remains the in place, then such "uprisings" will ultimately be failures. We all wear the " debt-as-money" slave collar around our necks. It is what keeps me( and many of you, I suppose ) on the sidelines of any real change in society. Most people cannot go " all in " for any such movement until they have lost everything. If you ( and your Family) are still holding on, you are still enslaved. The Monetary system owns you.
That is its primary function: control.
What we need now is an " evolution " of Civilization, not a Revolution....
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)to bring about any change without the revolutions that brought down the dictatorships. Decades of dictatorship made it impossible to use any democratic means of bringing about change.
But we do have the framework to change the way things are here. What would be way more effective, so long as we still have a process that could work if more people got involved politically, would be for the people to focus on local elections and on Congressional elections rather than on the Presidential elections.
To do that people will have to change they way they have contributed funds from giving them to their party leadership, to donating directly to candidates that THEY, not the Party, chooses. This has already begun to happen with the huge coalition formed before the last election.
Also we have to realize it will take a long time to get the changes we need since it took a long time to get to where we are.
But violent revolution is not the solution at all here and anyone promoting it at OWS events should be viewed with great suspicion imo.