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1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 24 hours news in Arabic Bahrain Online TuneZine English Mahala Kubra textile workers protests April 6th Youth Movement April 6th on Facebook April 6th Mahala protests Gafsa - Redeyef mining workers protests Free Alla campaign Atef's Torture in Egypt blog Kefaya (Enough) movement in Egypt 1st Arab Bloggers Meeting in Beirut Iran Election #iranelection we are all khaled said tunileaks #sidibouzid #freetunisia #jan25th #tahrir Free Tunisia Bouazizi Said Sidi Bouzid protests Free Egypt - Tahrir Fock! Yezzi! (Enough movement) Nawaat.org Tunisian anti-censorship campaign 2nd Arab Bloggers Meeting Facebook Arabic 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Gafsa - Redeyef mining workers protests Fock! Yezzi! (Enough movement) Nawaat.org Tunisian anti-censorship campaign 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 TuneZine #sidibouzid freedom of expression, human rights, democracy economic hardship, unemployment, corruption urban middle class poor working class 'riots' 'bread' Mar 2010 Nov 2010 Abdesselem Trimeche Chamseddine Al Hani Dec 17 Mohamed Bouazizi Ali Bouazizi 'university graduate' 'a slap' "Images are like weapons. They can help topple a regime." Sidi Bouzid Independent journalists/activists 1st news on Sidi Bouzid protest + Horchani Dec 18 6:47pm 11:30am Dec 19 Tunisian Bloggers @SBZ_News #sidibouzid Dec 20 "images posted on social network sites show police intervening to halt disturbances ignored by national media" Dec 21 "high unemployment sparks Tunisian riots" Dec 22 Houcine Falhi Dec 23 Apparent suicide triggers youth protests against unemployment FreeTunisia.org Press Release suicide Dec 24 SidiBouzid on in Kasserine 100,000 protesters including lawyers Dec 25 al-Ragab Miknassi spread to Kairouan, Sfax, & Ben Guardane in Tunis Dec 27 1,000 protesters Dec 28 Tunis 300-lawyers protest Gafsa labor union protest Monastir, Sbikha, Chebba Dec 29 first national TV coverage Ben Ali on TV 'extremists' 'foreign conspiracy' 'Al Jazeera' factor Dec 31 Lawyers - national Jan 2 Jan 3 students & lawyers in Thala Tunisian Bar Association's strike Jan 4 Jan 5 Bouazizi died + funeral Jan 6 Jan 7 Jan 8-12 Jan 10 Kasserine was crushed roads were blocked protests in Thala, massacres in Kasserine Bloggers/activists/journalists arrest Jan 12 nation-wide protests Lawyers strikes Jan 13 army said no Jan 14 80,000 protestors, Ministry of Interior, Tunis "bare life" "freedom & dignity" instead of "bread riots" Arab digital activism started more than a decade ago on screens on streets "networked participatory journalism" framing: a twist, white lies