"How WikiLeaks Rocked Tunisia"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/118396/how-wikileaks-rocked-tunisia.html

How WikiLeaks Rocked Tunisia

Thursday, 7 July 2011

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It was a Tunisian group that created a web page called “Tunileaks” where they published all the reports on Tunisia from WikiLeaks, which point to the corruption of the former authorities.

When the regime blocked this website, I – using the name Hamadi Kaloutcha - took the initiative to translate the wiki cables about Tunisia into French through Google translate, and then distribute this information on Facebook. The page I created “Tunisie Wikileaks”, got 170,000 visitors during the first three days.

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WikiLeaks came at the right moment; the regime did not have any internal popular legitimacy, though foreign governments believed that Ben Ali was supported by his population. WikiLeaks taught the Tunisian people that even foreign diplomats from the West, among them the Americans, were not on good terms with the regime. When Tunisians realised that their suspicions had grounds and were even well documented by foreign diplomats, there was no longer any excuse - the regime had to change.

In January, I was picked up by the police and held in custody. Although I was not sent to prison, I had to go through three days of interrogation. They straight away started questioning me about the Facebook page I had created, but they were also keen to know my real identity – they only knew me as Hamadi.

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[EFerrari]

1. Did you watch Amy's chat with Julian and Slovoj Zizek?

I never "got" Zizek as well and Julian was at his best, too.

[Hissyspit]

4. Transcript:

http://www.alternet.org/news/151531/julian_assange_on_why_calls_for_his_death_and_the_mccarthyesque_crackdown_on_wikileaks_are_good_signs_/?page=entire

[wingzeroday]

2. we are

what you made us.

We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, And our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.


i am the first of me.

[gateley]

3. K&R nt

[LetTimmySmoke]

5. The free flow of information was, is, and always will be the best weapon against the fascists.