[governance] Watch "'Real Arab Spring in Bahrain which West ignores'" on YouTube

[Fouad Bajwa]

Dear Fahd, what do you think?

-- FoO

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Fouad for the link. It was interesting to see the Analyst's
> perspective on different treatment of the West which he points to the US's
> position on Syria and Bahrain.  Not too long ago, we watched in horror as
> the Syrian Government through its army was shooting its own civillians and
> it appears from the link that Fouad sent, that the same is happening in
> Bahrain.
>
> i find interesting the decision by the UN SG Ban Ki-moon and League of Aab
> States SG on the appointment of a new Joint Special Representative for
> Syria. It would be great to try to get Lakhdar Brahimi to the Arab IGF to
> talk about the pursuit of an end to the conflict in Syria.
>
> I also hope the people of Bahrain attend the Arab IGF or at least
> representatives. I know that ISOC has a chapter in Bahrain and they have
> royalty as a patron. It will be great for our civil society who are present
> in the Arab IGF to skillfully weave a workshop and help encourage dialogue
> and diplomacy on why it is critical for the Internet to remain open and
> free. It was around May this year, when I was in Washington DC that I had
> met with an Iranian activist in the IGC who shared with me how the Iranian
> government was deliberately slowing internet access for ordinary people so
> that they could not access things like facebook etc.
>
> Without a doubt there needs to be awareness of the governance aspects and
> multiple issues and maybe help convince people that the internet is a way
> also that you can get communities to partner with government. A place where
> they are not threatened by criticism. When people are suppressed this over
> time boils and simmers and finds a way to spill into what we have seen as
> "uprisings or revolutions". I was very impressed with a saying that I saw at
> the US Federal Court of Appeals and can't remember what it said "word for
> word" except that it was something along the lines that the State or
> government must be quick to act against itself before the people...and I
> remember thinking how lucky the US was to have that philosophy so engrained
> within their culture because there are many parts of the world where this is
> not so.
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Caught this news footage from RT that may inspire food for thought at the
>> ArabIGF. I haven't edited the subject line as its posted by RT:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5BIIEx1srI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>>
>> Foooo
>>
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