What We Have Learned From The Arab World
posted by Anthony Scarpulla | February 11, 2011
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Icerockethttp://stevebeckow.com/2011/02/learned-arab-world/#more-33751
Just wanted to post this fantastic link from one of my favorite sites of the past few months. Quote from the story below.
"People do not yet realize that our basic nature is compassion and kindness, love and peacefulness, harmony and unity. I think that many feel there is a place to get to rather than something that must be left behind. Some people I hear on TV are speaking as if there is more road to go, more to be overcome, rather than a simple cessation of what does not work and an allowance of essential human nature to emerge."
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A new Face
— Feb 12, 2011
The two weeks of constant street level interviews and reporting from Cairo has done a lot to change the face of the Arab world to American audiences. This revolution was a people's revolution. It wasn't one faction's latest action, and when it started there were no leaders, no strong man wanting Mubarik's title and his crooked bureaucracy. This was a movement by people we here in the US can identify with. Middle class young people who have degrees but don't have connections so they can't get work, and face imprisonment for complaining about it. Is that really so different from main street America? This was not just a movement against Mubarik, it is a rejection of The System.
Additionally Egypt has an 80 million population, and 1.5 million are employed in the security apparatus - almost 2% of the population! So if peaceful solidarity can topple Mubarik's regime...
6 Tektite Serpent
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine
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