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We struggle every day against our obstacles (November 11 2012) We struggle every day against our obstacles (November 11 2012)

Mohammed Matter ‘Abu Yazan’ the Palestinian political activist, writer and a member of Gaza Youth Breaks out movement, writes “My story is marked by violence, persecution, arrests, abuse and resistance.” Matter has published an article on Aljazeera stating “It has been almost two years now since we wrote our manifesto. We called it a manifesto, but in reality, I’m not sure what it was. Was it a manifesto, or was it a cry for help? Perhaps, an accusation, or even perhaps a demand to the world and to ourselves; a demand for change from the outside and from within. It was before the uprisings began around us, and they have been roaring the last two years in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Bahrain. But we had felt like shouting in the dark, and while this raging had brought light into the darkness of the dictatorships around us, the night around us has not thinned even a bit. No, if anything, it has only become darker. … We struggle every day against our obstacles and for our dreams, and you can see that in all the amazing creativity coming out of Gaza, in our art, poems, writing, videos and songs, you can hear it and meet us in the talks we give all over the world. Yes, we wrote a manifesto, and maybe that was just the bright and loud outcry of the beginning of a journey, whose path is hard and tiring, thorny and also often very quiet and dark. But it is always there. So two years later, we say: We will be free. We will live. We will have peace. And we are always out there, fighting our daily struggle, full of the resistance we inherited from a long struggle for Palestine. We live and write and say and sing silent or loud manifestos every day. Just listen to us.”

 

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Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie the 64 year old French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs I do not feel I have committed any wrongdoing (March 6 2011)

Michèle Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie the 64 year old French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs has been forced to resign after criticism for sending teargas to Tunisia as civil unrest spread throughout the country and suggesting that France send the Tunisian regime riot police support to help restore order during the Tunisian Revolution. Revelations had also surfaced that she and her family had links to former President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and his regime via a business arrangement, and that she had visited Tunisia during the course of the uprising on a personal holiday that included flights on a private jet belonging to an associate of Ben Ali. Alliot-Marie has denied any wrong doing and blames the media for creating suspicion.

 

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Samir Zaid al-Rifai the 44 year old Prime Minister of Jordan and the son of former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and grandson of Samir al-Rifaihas Talked the talk of reform but little actually happened (February 3 2011)

Samir Zaid al-Rifai the 44 year old Prime Minister of Jordan and the son of former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and grandson of Samir al-Rifaihas been replaced by king Abdullah II with Marouf al-Bakhit following weeks of protests in the country stemming from high food prices and poverty. Rifai oversaw a government subjected to a prolonged recession with record public debt heavily dependent on foreign aid for survival. Opposition forces are calling for constitutional changes to the king’s powers in appointing governments and approving legislation, drawing inspiration from the successes of Tunisia and the mass rallies in Egypt. Rifai was only appointed as Prime Minister in December 2009 but had an extensive history working in the Royal Court.

 

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