Le Socialiste
17th January 2013, 02:35
Should make for an interesting panel and discussion:
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 6:00pm
Redstone Building • 3rd Floor Conference Room
2940 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
The Arab Revolutions of 2011 rocked world politics. Starting in Tunisia and Egypt and spreading to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, millions of ordinary people took to the streets, occupied their workplaces, and challenged dictatorial regimes that had ruled for decades.
Two years later, the heady optimism of the initial weeks of the uprisings has given way to a drawn out process of social upheaval. In Tunisia and Egypt, dictators Ben Ali and Mubarak were overthrown, but their replacements have failed to deliver on the masses' expectations. The uprisings in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen, were alternately repressed and coopted by the Gulf States and the West, while the militarization of the uprising in Syria has put a question mark over the outcome of its revolution.
But despite these setbacks, the antagonisms that drove the Arab Revolutions persist - and the revolutionary processes continue to play out. What does the future hold, and what do the revolutions mean for the global struggle against oppression and injustice? Join the International Socialist Organization (ISO) for a panel discussion:
Featuring:
Wael Elasady is a Palestinian-Syrian activist and member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University. He co-hosts One Land, Many Voices, a radio program focusing on Palestine.
Jeremy Tully is a member of the International Socialist Organization and has been active in organizing solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution
Additional speakers TBA
http://norcalsocialism.org/event/sf-resistance-and-revolution-arab-spring-2-years
Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 6:00pm
Redstone Building • 3rd Floor Conference Room
2940 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
The Arab Revolutions of 2011 rocked world politics. Starting in Tunisia and Egypt and spreading to Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, millions of ordinary people took to the streets, occupied their workplaces, and challenged dictatorial regimes that had ruled for decades.
Two years later, the heady optimism of the initial weeks of the uprisings has given way to a drawn out process of social upheaval. In Tunisia and Egypt, dictators Ben Ali and Mubarak were overthrown, but their replacements have failed to deliver on the masses' expectations. The uprisings in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen, were alternately repressed and coopted by the Gulf States and the West, while the militarization of the uprising in Syria has put a question mark over the outcome of its revolution.
But despite these setbacks, the antagonisms that drove the Arab Revolutions persist - and the revolutionary processes continue to play out. What does the future hold, and what do the revolutions mean for the global struggle against oppression and injustice? Join the International Socialist Organization (ISO) for a panel discussion:
Featuring:
Wael Elasady is a Palestinian-Syrian activist and member of Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) at Portland State University. He co-hosts One Land, Many Voices, a radio program focusing on Palestine.
Jeremy Tully is a member of the International Socialist Organization and has been active in organizing solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution
Additional speakers TBA
http://norcalsocialism.org/event/sf-resistance-and-revolution-arab-spring-2-years