Next Stop for the Facebook Revolution: Algeria

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Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations...

Plastic bullets and tear gas were used to try and disperse large crowds in major cities and towns, with 30,000 riot police taking to the streets in Algiers alone.

There were also reports of journalists being targeted by state-sponsored thugs to stop reports of the disturbances being broadcast to the outside world.

But it was the government attack on the internet which was of particular significance to those calling for an end to President Abdelaziz Boutifleka's repressive regime.
Protesters mobilising through the internet were largely credited with bringing about revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.
"The government doesn't want us forming crowds through the internet," said Rachid Salem, of Co-ordination for Democratic Change in Algeria.

Telegraph

Egypt was inspired by Tunisia, Algerians appear to be inspired by both. And Egyptians and Tunisians are sending messages of encouragement to the people of Algeria.

For a long time 'Globalism' meant Multi-National Corps who did not recognize borders, they operated, as we now know particularly from the Wikileaks Cables, in every country in the world, influencing and supporting oppressive regimes. The people of all these countries were isolated from the rest of the world, while the Globalists were working together.

A sea change is occurring now where the PEOPLE are joining together to fight the policies forced on them by Global Capitalists through the use of their bought and paid for dictators.

So, while each country's revolutions are different, it appears to be a people's movement that is sweeping the Arab World right now, and to some extent starting last Summer, Europe. Hopefully Europeans will renew their efforts to throw out THEIR puppet governments, as Iceland has already done, and start retrieving the money stolen from them while the thieves have the arrogance to force 'austerity' programs on the very people they robbed.

It is probably the first time that we, the people of countries all over the world, have joined forces through the internet, to support each country that is rising up against these draconian and brutal policies.

A Global People's Revolution. And that is why the first thing they try to do is to cut off communication with the rest of the world. It's easier to oppress one country isolated from the rest of the world, but it is not so easy to do so when the world is watching and millions, billions actually, are on the side of the people.....

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REPORT: Five Arab Countries That The ‘Jasmine Revolution’ May Spread To Next

ALGERIA: Algeria has been in the iron grip of a military government since 1991, when the regime cancelled elections after an Islamist party won the first round. This set off a bloody civil war in the country, which peaked in violence between 1993 and 1997. In recent days, Algerians, inspired by their Tunisian and Egyptian neighbors, have organized large protest marches demanding democratic reforms. Today, despite officials outlawing the protest, nearly 10,000 people marched in Algiers anyway, facing off with three times as many riot police. Perhaps fearing that they will be the targets of the next revolution, Algerian officials recently announced that they will be lifting the country’s own emergency law — which has been in place for decades — in the “very near future.”

BAHRAIN: Bahrain’s Sunni leader, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, has long oppressed his country’s Shi’a-majority population. Last August, his ruling party arrested hundreds of Shi’a activists and shut down the main opposition party’s websites right before the parliamentary election, fearing that it may lose its grip on power. Yet recent events in the Middle East have the king fearing for his rule, too. He has ordered “a hike in food subsidies and reinstated welfare support for low-income families to compensate for inflation,” and plans to deliver a speech today where he will offer further concessions. Additionally, Bahrain’s government announced that it will be giving $2,650 to each Bahraini family yesterday. Yet pro-democracy activists plan to march Monday anyway, demanding real reforms in the country.

JORDAN: Likely also fearing a Tunisian-style revolution, Jordan’s King Abdullah sacked his government and appointed a new Prime Minister at the beginning of this month. Yet some of the largest protests in modern history have rocked the nation in recent weeks, indicating that Jordanians do not see the concessions as enough. In perhaps a sign of the regime’s weakness, President Obama dispatched Adm. Mike Mullen, the head of Joint Chiefs of Staff, to meet with Abdullah this weekend.

SYRIA: Earlier this month, protesters planned a “day of rage” where they would protest their grievances against the unelected president Basher al-Assad. While the protesters ended up being few in number, the regime did deploy its security services in increased numbers across the country, visibly fearful of a protest movement like the ones in Egypt and Tunisia. The government also lifted a five-year ban on Facebook, in a move widely seen as appeasing a nascent protest movement.

YEMEN: The president of Yemen, “one of America’s foremost allies” in the region, promised to step down in 2013, as his people began to demonstrate against the ruling elite. Today, thousands of pro-regime demonstrators attacked anti-government demonstrators with clubs and knives, an eery parallel to an Egyptian tactic that failed to quell protests and destroyed the regime’s public reputation and international support.


http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/12/...e-arab-states/

[lefty]

Huh?????

My parents just sent me an email (Algeria)

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http://www.businessrevieweurope.eu/i...outage-algeria