Mohamed Bouazizi

Factory Worker Lights Himself On Fire To Protest Working Conditions At Hyundai Plant

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Pay, Labornotes, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Mass Suicide, Video, Labor, Self Immolation, Daily Show, Apple, South Korea, Hyundai, Work Conditions, Protest, Foxconn, This American Life, Business News

The auto industry saw a largely strong year in 2011 with U.S. sales rising 10 percent, but a recent incident at a Hyundai plant in South Korea may rai...

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The Greengrocer That Broke the Camel's Back

Uriel Abulof | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring, Vaclav Havel, Vaclav Havel Dead, Velvet Revolution, Vaclav Havel Death, World News
Uriel Abulof

Vaclav Havel left an indelible imprint on the conscience of the entire world. His 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless, has lost none of its relevance, particularly in the wake of the stormy year that the Middle East experienced.

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A Year After Corruption Ignited the Arab Spring, Do Citizens Have a Greater Voice?

Cobus de Swardt | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Corruptions Perception Index, Corruption, Libya, Yemen, Transparency International, Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia, Egypt, Middle East, Arab Spring, World News
Cobus de Swardt

When citizens are silenced, fraud and corruption from the financial sector to building safety, go unchecked with disastrous consequences for economy and society. This year the world has been rocked by a Tunisian fruit seller who refused to let his voice go unheard.

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The Stories That Set A World Ablaze

David Tereshchuk | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Bouazizi, Media Images, Self Immolation, Arab Spring, Mohamed Bouazizi, Immolation, Protest, Vietnam Self Immolation, Vietnam Protests, Media News
David Tereshchuk

I'm disappointed to be still waiting for American media to fully recall the place in our own country of self-immolation as citizen protest.

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Compassion Is Our New Currency

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Occupy Oakland, Mohamed Bouazizi, Corporate Greed, Homelessness, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News
Rebecca Solnit

Perhaps the greatest gift that Occupy Wall Street and the other movements of 2011 have given us is a sharpening of our perceptions -- and our conflicts. One thing couldn't be clearer: compassion is our new currency.

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A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse

Michael Moore | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Bradley Manning, Michael Moore, Occupy Wall Street, Iraq War Manning, Wikileaks Bradley Manning, Iraq War Wikileaks, Tunisia Occupy Protests, Iraq Bradley Manning, Wikileaks Occupy, Politics News
Michael Moore

When anyone asks me, "Who started Occupy Wall Street?" sometimes I say "Goldman Sachs" or "Chase" but mostly I just say, "Bradley Manning." It was his courageous action that was the tipping point.

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Remixing Public Diplomacy: American "Hip Hop Jam Sessions" in Post-Revolution Tunisia

Maytha Alhassen | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Hip Hop, Mohamed Bouazizi, Cultural Diplomacy, Arab Spring, Music, Tunisia, Remarkable Current Tunisia, World News
Maytha Alhassen

My generation stands to learn from the enfranchisement blueprint designed by Tunisian youth (ones taking cues from the Civil Rights movement). Americans of all generations stand to learn about Tunisians beyond their historic revolution.

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The Arab Spring: A New Era in a Transforming Globe

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Arab Youth, Arabs, Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring, Facebook, Egypt, Occupy Wall Street, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

Contrary to what some commentators have said, the Arab uprisings are not a divorced phenomenon from the protests that have taken over many parts of the Western world due to the continuing economic crisis.

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Arab Revolution, Social Media Hype and Al Jazeera

Nehad Ismail | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Wael Ghonim, Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring, Al Jazeera Arabic, Social Media, Media, Tawakul Karman, Youtube, Twitter, Nobel Peace Prize, Waddah Khanfar, Arab Revolution, Ben Mhenni, Muammar Gaddafi, Monastir, Media News
Nehad Ismail

The impact of the social media on the Arab Spring has been wildly exaggerated. A week or so ago we witnessed the world's first YouTube lynching of a u...

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From The Streets Of Tunisia To Wall Street

Hedi Jaouad | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi Tunisia, Tunisia Arab Spring, Tunisian Elections, Wall Street Protests, Tunisia Protests, Tunisia Wall Street, Mohamed Bouazizi, Globalization Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Elections Wall Street, Tunisia Elections, World News
Hedi Jaouad

This Sunday, Tunisians will go to the polls for the first transparent, multi-party elections in their 3,000-year history.

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Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Arab Spring, Mohamed Bouazizi, Activism, We Are the 99 Percent, Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, World News
Rebecca Solnit

Dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year -- with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the power of despair and the margins of hope and the bonds of civil society.

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Fes Festival: A Spiritual Take On The Palestine-Israel Conflict And The Arab Spring

Katherine Marshall | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring, Indian Spirituality, Morocco, Islamism, Global Sacred Music, Fes, Israel, Palestine, Fes Forum, Religious Tolerance, Religion News
Katherine Marshall

Can the "spirit of Fes" help in breaking the vicious cycle of hate and indifference? Can it restore human dignity to the stalemate and hurt? Can this blend of history and present, spiritual and material, help bring solutions?

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An Iranian Suicide

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Siamak Pourzand Suicide, Siamak Pourzand, Evin Prison, Mohamed Bouazizi, Suicide, Szmuel Zygielbojm, Iran, Albert Camus, Jan Palach, Azadeh Pourzand, World News
Ben S. Cohen

A prominent journalist and critic before the Islamist seizure of power in 1979, Siamak Pourzand had endured more than three decades of vicious harassment at the hands of the regime.

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World Bank, I.M.F. Unsure Of Solution To Middle East Inequality

New York Times | BINYAMIN APPELBAUM | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia, Egypt, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Employment, Jobs, Robert B. Zoellick, Imf, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Inequality, Business News

WASHINGTON — The World Bank once hailed Tunisia’s economic reforms, noting the country’s increasing prosperity over the last decade. Official...

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The Butterfly and the Boiling Point: Charting the Wild Winds of Change in 2011

Rebecca Solnit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Mohamed Bouazizi, Middle East Protests, Tunisia, Egypt, Revolution, Middle East Revolutions, Bahrain, World News
Rebecca Solnit

The boiling point of water is straightforward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious. When exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable?

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Arab-Style Democracy: The Answer to the Post Dictatorship Era

Elza S. Maalouf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arab World, Democracy, Arabs, Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia, Egypt, Middle East, World News
Elza S. Maalouf

The values of the industrial age are just emerging in the Middle East under the umbrella of the age of technology and knowledge. Arab cultures have no choice but to advance in this global world.

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Greatness From a Tunisian Fruit Seller

Jack Healey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, North Africa, Mohamed Bouazizi, North Africa Protests, Tunisia, Middle East, Revolution, World News
Jack Healey

The fire has not gone out. It burns brightly and clearly to all the young people in the region. This individual fire has lit the sky of the northern Africa as never before.

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Lessons In Life, and Love, From A Revolution

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Protests, Libya, Mohamed Bouazizi, Bahrain Protests, Muammar Gaddafi, Tunisia, World News
Christina Patterson

We live in history all the time, of course, but most of us have never seen history like this. It already feels like many months since a young Tunisian...

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The Arab Revolutionary We Failed to Imagine

Ethan Pack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Bouazizi, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Barack Obama, World News
Ethan Pack

We must realize that our ideas about Arab regimes, both those we support and those we fear, have ignored the most dramatic revolutionary force in Arab society: the people.

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The Breaking Point

Alyson Renaldo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia Protests, Tunisia, Egypt, Grassroots, President Mubarak, Middle East, Democracy, Impact, Impact News
Alyson Renaldo

However, let us consider this: when Mohamed Bouzizi set himself a blaze that Friday morning he did not have the external validation of a grassroots nation wide solidarity, or media coverage.

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For the U.S. in Egypt, Blowback Is a Bitch

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Omar Suleiman, Egypt, Mohamed Bouazizi, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Cia, Tunisia, Ibn Sheik Al-Libi, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics, Mohamed ElBaradei, Cairo, Hosni Mubarak, Khaled Said, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Michael Winship

Ironically, blowback from the propaganda offense claiming the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction now enhances the credibility among Egyptian protesters of a man that same campaign tried to discredit.

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After the Fall of African Dictatorships

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alemayehu G. Mariam

If Africans are to have hope of a better future, they will need to build a fortress of freedom impregnable to the slings and arrows of civilians dictators and the savage musketry of military juntas.

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As African Tyrants Fall

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Bouazizi, Orange Revolution, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia Protests, Africa Nonviolent Revolution, Velvet Revolution, Ethiopia Economic Crises, Ahimsa, Mohamed Ghannouchi, Quit India, Ethiopia, Mengistu Hailemariam, Satyagraha, Tunisian People?S Revolution, Mohandas Gandhi, Saudi Arabia, Bulcha Demeksa, African Dictators, Africa Passive Resistance, Meles Zenawi, Idi Amin, Constitutional Democratic Rally Party, Egypt Protests, World News
Alemayehu G. Mariam

The Tunisian people's revolution provides practical insights into the prerequisites for dismantling dictatorships in Africa. The first lesson is that when dictatorships end, their end could come with either a bang or a whimper.

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Shaken by Tunisian Unrest, Arab World Looks to Placate Street

Hani Hazaimeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordan, Demonstrations, Amman, King Abdullah II, Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisia, Football, Arab World, Juzbekistan, Syria, Asia Cup, World News
Hani Hazaimeh

Arab citizens continue to take to the streets, emboldened by Tunisia and the knowledge that for the first time in decades, Arab regimes are taking notice. Will this will be enough to placate the masses?

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Horrifying Copycat Suicide Protests Sweep North Africa

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self Immolation, Mohamed Bouazizi, Ine Al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Middle East Self Immolation, Tunisia Protests, Yacoub Ould Dahoud, Cairo Self Immolation, Tunisia Riots, Egypt Protests, Ayman Nour, World News

CAIRO/ALGIERS (Reuters) - The self-immolation that set off the protest wave which toppled Tunisia's leader has led to apparent copycat protests in ot...

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