July 5, 2013

Rabble.ca: Under Ataturk’s gaze – On the ground in Taksim Square

July 5, 2013

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MOSECON CEO Yan St-Pierre in a candid interview with Samuel Ramos, contributor to the Canadian online news portal RABBLE.ca, where he discusses the situation in Turkey, the revolutionary process, and some of the tactical elements of protesting at Taksim Square:

… Every week sees a new batch of protests, and the situation around Taksim, says St-Pierre, is far from over, although seemingly calm and quiet. He’s well aware that what these demonstrators want is a revolution, but it won’t happen overnight. “A true revolution is not an instantaneous process,” he says. [….] Other countries, like Brazil and, recently, Egypt, have started protests of their own in defiance of the state of their own affairs. St-Pierre says that these frustrations stem from the same human thread of not being included in the process. “The trigger varies, but the reasons are the same.

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