01-06-2013, 04:48 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Yes! Trees are worth fighting for. Enough shopping malls already.
Quote:Demonstrators are angry at government plans to cut down trees in Gezi Park, next to Taksim Square, to make way for a replica Ottoman army barracks and a shopping mall. They say it is the last green space of any size in the center of Istanbul.
While the trees and Mall were the spark, the grievances go MUCH deeper. Al Jazeera really did a good job of pointing out that most of the [so far] young protesters really want a more liberal and open Turkey, and are against the turn to right and theocratic oppression coming down [again] in Turkey by the current administration. Well, it is Spring! Maybe someday it will come to my own decrepit country! Let's just hope this honest show of righteous indignation isn't hijacked as are many to most such movements.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass