The Arab Spring started in Tunisia. All though it was an ARAB spring, the entire world was captivated and enthralled in the bravery of those who stood in the face of brutal suppression of the Arab regimes with their tear gas, bullets and tanks. It started in Tunisia and spread to Egypt and then Libya, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria. Absent still are the voices of the Iranian protesters, but their time will come soon enough. The world watched with horror as people where slaughtered and despots deposed. Despite the continuing agony of the Libyan and Syrian people, and despite the heavy crack down in Bahrain, the aspirations of the people did not diminish. And the world watched with amazement with western powered too confounded to react. For decades they have tried to instill such change in the east and failed. They failed because they advanced such motions as means to advance their own interests rather than that of the people, and they failed because they supported some of these despots, also for their own interests. The oil must flow.
What was an Arab spring is now slowly growing and becoming a worldwide spring. The financial crisis of the last few years has left many people disappointed with the lies and corruption of their own governments. The failure of world governments, especially those of the western world, have sparked out cries from their people demanding a better life. Demanding their rights to be respected by the Political parties, the corporations, the banks and the bean counters who never factor in the human aspect of their ill advised decisions and policies. The money must flow.
The Greeks have taken to the streets to protest austerity measures that will diminish the rights and life of the Greeks. The Spaniards too have risen spontaneously to demand change and to challenge the injustice and in human ways of a system that has not only failed them, the Spaniards, but the entire population of the earth.
The greed of the corporations, the insensitivity of sellout politicians, the corruption of a system of governance that is old and obsolete and no longer of the people and for the people, the entire financial system which, as it currently stands, violates our human rights on a daily basis. A system that is un-egalitarian and that favors those who have rather than those who do not have. A system by which success is measured, as if being a successful human can be measured by the amount of money one has or makes. What of those who do not care about money? What of those who want to be free of the chains and restrictions of finance? What of those who no longer wish to be humiliated by a system that claims equality but that is far removed from it? We are being lied too. We have been lied too for a very long time. We are told that money will make our lives better and that it will improve our quality of life but from my personal experiences, and the experiences of a multitude of human beings, I know that this is not true. Especially when there are far too many greedy people in this world who force the rest of us to become salves to this unjust system. This system that is worshiped at the stock exchange market, a religion of numbers that have no human value. The numbers must flow.
Slowly the world is being caught up by the spark that started in Tunisia. The revolution is not going to remain a regional affair. It will, undoubtedly, spark flames where ever people are being oppressed and humiliated and it does not matter if the antagonist is a bloody tyrant, a bloody ideology, or the bloody un-egalitarian financial system. Humanity must flow.
Check out this map of protests around the world. See these red marks increase over the next few years. The after mass will be ugly but what comes after that hell will be a worldwide necessary change. Necessary because we the world population is nearing 7 billion, our recourses are dwindling and are being mismanaged by the small percentage of ridiculously wealthy greedy corporate and state tyrants.
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