1/. "We now have a weapon. It’s called Tahrir Square"
An activist told me this in 2011, after the #ArabSpring had spread there from Tunisia
It was a heady time
It that felt change was possible
10 years on, it's hard not to look back on those times without a painful nostalgia
An activist told me this in 2011, after the #ArabSpring had spread there from Tunisia
It was a heady time
It that felt change was possible
10 years on, it's hard not to look back on those times without a painful nostalgia
2/. Over the last decade, I've watched as the #ArabSpring turned quickly into the #ArabWinter & the dreams of so many turned sour or were crushed
The civil war in Syrian for has cost 590,000 lives & displaced millions of people
And yet the hope lives on vice.com/en/article/nn4…
The civil war in Syrian for has cost 590,000 lives & displaced millions of people
And yet the hope lives on vice.com/en/article/nn4…
3/. The energy of the #ArabSpring spilled around the world
People were thinking about alternatives
The Occupy Movement attempted to give space to that thinking
Jefferson wrote “A little rebellion is a good thing”
But maybe "a little" isn't quite enough newint.org/features/web-e…
People were thinking about alternatives
The Occupy Movement attempted to give space to that thinking
Jefferson wrote “A little rebellion is a good thing”
But maybe "a little" isn't quite enough newint.org/features/web-e…
4/. Where did all that energy go?
A poet from #WesternSahara, birthplace of the #ArabSpring(?), writes:
“What have we done with the years, so distant & yet so close?
Did they fall, squandered, between the oblivion of tradition & the thirst of the dunes?”
A poet from #WesternSahara, birthplace of the #ArabSpring(?), writes:
“What have we done with the years, so distant & yet so close?
Did they fall, squandered, between the oblivion of tradition & the thirst of the dunes?”
https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1339501053486768128
5/. “In memory of the #ArabSpring, whose energy still fizzes in our hearts”
Bread - Freedom - Social Justice
#Tunisia
#Bahrain
#Egypt
#Libya
#Syria
#Yemen
#ArabSpring10
Bread - Freedom - Social Justice
#Tunisia
#Bahrain
#Egypt
#Libya
#Syria
#Yemen
#ArabSpring10
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