Madagascar has been rocked by nearly two weeks of youth-led protests over crippling power cuts and economic hardship, posing the biggest challenge yet to President Andry Rajoelina's rule.
  • monogram@feddit.nlEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    We’ve seen this playbook happen in Egypt, Syria, Thailand

    Democracy through protest, seems to sadly be weak to Authoritarianism, I’m depressed for acknowledging it.

    • atmorous@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Its ok because when that is acknowledged then people know where to build off of

      Biggest thing is growing online community to affect in-person for a lot better

      Like Myanmar’s NUG but all the people together in a shared real-time online community 3rd space on Stoat, and Matrix (Element)

      Collective power changes everything super quickly