SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Arab Spring
6 Dec 2016
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An interactive timeline of middle east protests. January 2011 in egypt a series of protests that grow in size and lead to downfall of political regime in egypt. This lead to many more protests in other countries. Mohamed b in tanigia a uni grade unemployed sold fruits and veggies on street. Police took away what he was selling and in protest he set fire to himself. So in egypt many people from diff backgrounds came together for a goal od greater change and democracy. Criitzing the government and its economic issues such as, unemployment, min wage and cost of food being to high and human rights and lack of human elections, police, abuse of power by military and political elite. Use of social media by protestors to inform the world of what was going on and to organize their protest and expose police and military brutality. Not as crazy of scale as middle east but large for to.
