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11 November 2023

The Indignant Movement, the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement Here to Stay

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379421000597

In Tunisia in 2010, spontaneous protests broke out after a street vendors self-immolation to protest government corruption. This spread throughout North Africa and the Middle East and became known as the Arab Spring. Collectively, protesters toppled a governments and held their leaders accountable. Unfortunately, the lasting results have not fared too well, with civil tumultuousness taking hold and autocratic regimes replacing the previous order. These countries are still asking, “Where is the democracy we demanded?”

The Indignant Movement and its extension, the Occupy Movement arose directly out of the Arab Spring. A city square in Madrid, where los indignandos began to first garner attention, was named after Tahir Square, the most frequented of squares where protests convene in all Egypt. The Indignant Movement came to counter austerity and crush political corruption by telling corrupt politicians to go home or go to jail, but it is a fledging movement still all throughout Europe. Here is an epistle wherein you can learn more:

> It is so nice to find you are enjoying such a splendid time in Italy! Sounds wonderful to be in a largely medieval town. I learned recently that during the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages patronage in the arts from the Church in Italy led to great cultural creations, many cathedrals, for instance. I would love to see those cathedrals someday! I plan to go back to Athens not too long from now, along with Delphi, maybe I could hop up in Italy and meet with you some if you’re still there or if you head over again. You do the summer abroad trip to Italy sometimes, which makes me happy you have likely gotten the chance to explore all over the country. I am just so grateful that I was able to travel all over Greece when I was a student at Allegheny. Athens became my favorite city! It is economically a bit better off since the wake tide of what happened there in June 2011, with the anti-austerity, pro-democracy protests, the Indignant Movement, being clamped down on by the governmental and continental Europe authorities. But I’m still concerned about the creditors who paid the bailout money coming to the nation and telling them to pay the ante. Between 2010 and 2018, Greece took out 320 billion euros in debt in order to avoid defaulting on its loans. As of 2019, it has paid 41.6 billion euros. The scheduled payments go out beyond 2060. They started protesting in 2010. They didn’t want the bailout. Now it’s following them for over half a century. To avoid a Greece default, creditors forced Greece to take a bailout. Everyone in Athens was against the bailouts in 2011. On 26 June 2011, two million people in Athens marched on the streets to support democracy and to say they were against the bailouts. I was with them there. And I learned in Barcelona about similar stories from all across Europe at the International Indignant Movement Conference that summer where a representative of Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain, and the U.S. (myself) was present. I pled ignorance on behalf of the American people about the injustices perpetuated by the troika— the IMF, the ECB and the EU— stating that of course Americans wouldn’t support those policies if they were understanding those Europeans lived situations.

> The Greek people were against the bailouts and voiced their will democratically, thoughtfully, and effectively, then the bailouts were forced upon them, gutting the social sector with their imposed austerity measures. How long will the Greeks have to pay when they’ve already paid in austerity?

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The Arab Spring, the Indignant Movement and the Occupy Movement need to succeed lest there is a global oligarchic regime.

For more:

https://theprodigalgreek.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-chronicle-of-a-struggle/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/sudan-last-domino-stood-arab-uprisings-has-fallen

https://www.usip.org/tunisia-timeline-jasmine-revolution

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/05/end-arab-spring-and-there-price-pay

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/02/egypt-coup-morsi-arab-spring-us-obama-democracy-middle-east/

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/15/141382468/occupy-wall-street-inspires-worldwide-protests

https://www.usip.org/egypt-timeline-arab-uprising

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/7/1-28m-people-protest-macrons-pension-reform-plan-ministry

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/31/the-arab-spring-is-not-dead

- Ryan Ventriloquist MMus (Ben Bussewitz), Director of Human Rights Watch