The annual Person of the year by Time magazine is over, the winner is ‘Protester’, refferring to all protesters in the Arab Spring, helping Western states reaching their aims in Tunusia, Libya and Egypt.
NEW YORK / NationalTurk – “The Protester” has been named Time’s Person of the Year for 2011. The selection was announced yesterday on NBC’s “The Today Show.” The magazine says dissent across the Middle East had spread to Europe and the United States and protesters were reshaping global politics.
Time Person of the Year title goes to protesters
The title of Time’s Person of the Year is given to the person or thing that has most influenced culture and the news during the past year for good or otherwise. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor in 2009. The 2008 winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush ! and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.
Protesters are redefining people power
Time said it gave the crtedit to protesters because they were “redefining people power” around the globe.
The Time article by Kurt Andersen said it began in Tunisia, where the dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ‘s power grabbing and high living crossed a line of shamelessness and a commonplace bit of government callousness against an ordinary citizen, a 26-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, became the final straw. “Bouazizi lived in the charmless Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, 125 miles south of Tunis.,” the article said.
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