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Domino Effect: Omanis protest high cost of living, corruption
Tunisia’s revolution sparks questions in the Arab World on poverty and distribution of wealth…
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Domino Effect: 3,000 Jordanians protest govt economic policies
Via Ahram Online…
More than 3,000 Jordanian trade unionists, Islamists and leftists held a sit-in on Sunday outside parliament to protest the government’s economic policies.
“For how long should we pay the price of corruption and theft,” read one of the banners carried by protesters who also held Jordanian and Islamist flags.
The demonstrators chanted “enough of lies, we lost our future,” and called on Prime Minister Samir Rifai to “listen to the voice of the people.”
“Jordan’s blood has been sucked,” they chanted.
“Poverty, starvation and unemployment, we’ve had enough,” and “Jordanians are on fire… the soaring prices are killing us,” were among the other slogans they chanted.
Parliament was in session during the sit-in, which comes after a popular revolt in Tunisia ousted its strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
On Saturday, about 50 Jordanian trade unionists held a sit-in outside the Tunisian embassy in Amman, shouting “Tunisia’s revolution will spread.”
Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of the kingdom on Friday to protest soaring prices and unemployment, despite a 169-million-dollar plan to improve their living condition.
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ABOUT 3ARABAWY
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
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