The protests that overthrew half a century of autocratic rule in Tunisia are spreading. The governments of Egypt, Algeria, and Yemen are feeling the wrath of decades of repression as people take to the streets and demand freedom.
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Some music to go along with the old and young in civil society fighting against the sclerotic kleptocracies, who are ripe for a shoe in the face :
http://enoughgaddafi.com/?page_id=294
(via @avinunu)
Continuing with the music, this fits in here as well with Marwan Bishara’s last comments :
CHAINS
(Vietnam, Cambodia, Bagdad, Fallujah, Lebanon, Gaza…)
Tendrils
Bring out some vague image to the light of day
And push back the curtains, another victory
We close our eyes to breathe
The warm sand from the desert there
Cut like the flesh around the prize
The master tethered to it where
His faithful servant lies
Constellations
Thrown like gems, are locking heads, as deaf and dumb
As tattoos lingering above the canopy
We watch it from beneath
The planes give through the severed air
Necklaces of fire from the sky
That fall down to our hands laid bare
To scatter them like grains
That grow to be so high
Everything’s pulling to break these chains