I think I've finally got my dates figured out. It's Friday the Fourth. Phew. Okay.
Anyway.
Marielle went over the map, she did rather well.
Then we as a class went over it. Woopie.
Going over our assigned blogs -- the middle eastern ones. Pssh.
Egypt
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The Egyptian president stepped down and went along and listened to the protesters. The U.S. doesn't have a whole lot to do with what's going on there. The president did NOT end up killing his people. Which is good.
Moracco
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Basically the people were looking for political reform, and they have been having protests. They have found five people dead in the streets. Generally not a peacefull protest. King Mohammed the sixth has ruled for a while now, and is still ruling Moracco.
Algeria
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Their protests are about the leaders raising or lifting the emergency law, and another reason I didn't catch. Seria and Algeria have the same emergency law. The emergency law took away their freedom of speech and away the freedom to have a protest. They lifted it. So now they have more rights. Also, the high food prices, high housing costs, and high unemployment rates are a few more reasons for the unrest in Algeria. It started in Algeria and moved on to the other countires, but Algeria's unrest is not quite as serious as say Lybia's. This is the protest by the people, mostly young people, not terrorists or anything like that.
Tunisia
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It basically started in Tunisia. There is lack of job availabilty, and rising prices. A student set himself ablaze after the government took away his only source of income -- a food cart. The people who have facebook and twitter were leaking unoffical news about it and the president Ben Ali had to get it under control by shutting down facebook and twitter. Ben Ali stepped down and fled to Sudi Arabia. Corruption was another issue that caused his down fall. President Obama stated that the Americans stand with the Tunisian people.
Yeman
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Unemployment: 35%
Population: 23.5 million people
The need political reform. The biggest protest they've had was with 20,000 people. Protesters call for down fall of their president. U.S. has helped crack down on Al-quida forces in Yeman. Their president promises to NOT going to run in the next election. He's going to step down! Change will be happening.
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