People & Power - Syria: Songs of Defiance (by AlJazeeraEnglish)
A statement of defiance: A documentary on the ongoing Syrian revolution that was shot entirely on iPhone and aired on international news outlet.
Remembering #Jan25: Days of Rage and Dignity. The Egyptian revolution really isn’t over, but the eighteen days of rallying and demonstrating across Egypt starting on 25 January 2011 that ultimately ousted longtime dictator Mubarak deserve an incredible amount of celebration.
Here is a photographic retrospective of those eighteen days, shot by some of the best. I will never fail to be blown away by the images of the demonstrations in Tahrir.
- Yannis Behrakis/Reuters. 1/30/2011.
- Nasser Nasser/AP. 1/25/2011.
- Peter Macdiarmid/Getty. 2/1/2011.
- Lefteris Pitarakis/AP. 2/1/2011.
- Ed Ou/NYT. 2/1/2011.
- Hannibal Hanschke/EPA. 2/2/2011.
- Moises Saman/NYT. 2/11/2011.
- Felipe Trueba/EPA. 2/11/2011.
Egyptian soldiers beat a female protester in Cairo.
Though the tyrant is gone, the same old guards and their sympathizers are still prowling the streets. And they act based their own conservative judgement that treat women like games in trophy hunting.
Should President Obama sell $53 million worth of arms to Bahrain when it continues to violently repress its citizens?
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This morning, Time magazine announced “The Protester” as their 2011 person of the year. Here’s the protest montage we played at the beginning of the show today. Can you identify the protest voices?
-Jody, BL Show-
From the Arab Spring to Occupy Movement to anti-Putin demonstrations in Russia , everyone is a winner. The formidable people power can topple any unjust and undemocratic establishments.
