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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>I grew up in a family with a history of resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands in WW2. I lived with and discussed for many days with people that were in the resistance against the East German regime while studying in Dresden. I spent time with people fighting for <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a> at Tahrir square in Cairo. One lesson is universal. Avoid risk by never having a central collection of information that could be found. Be it paper, audio recording or digital data outside of your control</p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>Pictures I took at Tahrir in Cairo, December 2011. Yes, I was AT Tahrir, not just outside of it or on the rooftop bar of the Hilton hotel, where the international journalists were. I was invited as speaker at a government sponsored conference on <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/OpenSoucre" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSoucre</span></a> in <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Egypt</span></a>, MEAOSS. And somehow I ended up at the protests. I got into a LOT of trouble for that. <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Jan25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jan25</span></a></p>
prasoon<p>Listening to Laith Marouf explain the historical context of the Arab world - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ISIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISIS</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wahabism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wahabism</span></a> terrorists, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArabSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArabSpring</span></a>, mistakes that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> has made in the past - I couldn't help but place it in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indian</span></a> context.</p><p>What the West did to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a> is exactly what they're doing in Indian Subcontinent - demolishing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, fueling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NGO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGO</span></a> led <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IdentityPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdentityPolitics</span></a>, fake <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a>, religious <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a>, arming terrorist groups, breaking solidarity between neighboring countries.</p><p>Hope we learn</p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>IMHO. “Social” networks that are centralised and only have ads as their source of income will never empower people. We saw it with <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Arabspring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arabspring</span></a>. Unite in other ways.</p>