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Bernie Sanders

cascadiance

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8. We should replace Columbus day with Mohamed Bouazizi day, the man who inspired Arab Spring...

Reply to Voice for Peace (Reply #5)

Sun Jan 3, 2016, 03:23 AM

Jan 2016

... that also helped Occupy be a global movement when the Arab Spring basically swept through the Middle East after he set himself on fire in Tunisia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

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