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Bouazizi Grafitti from SF
Mohamed Bouazizi Graffitti, Mission St., San Francisco

Mohamed Bouazizi (d. 2011) from Tunisia to San Francisco to SOTU

Juan Cole 01/25/2012

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Graffiti from Mission Street, San Francisco in honor of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation kicked off the Tunisian Revolution, inspired the Tahrir Square demonstrations, and the Arab Spring:

Bouazizi Grafitti from SF
Mohamed Bouazizi Graffitti, Mission St., San Francisco

OWS San Francisco demonstration, California Street, January 20, 2012 (inspired by the Tahrir Square demonstrations of January 25, 2011, and after in Egypt):

Occupy Wall Street in turn put pressure on the Obama administration to get tougher with, well, Wall Street. So he announced in his State of the Union Address that he was establishing a financial crimes unit and would make sure the big banks would get no more massive taxpayer bailouts.

Thank you, Mohamed Bouazizi.

Filed Under: art and photography, Tunisia, Uncategorized

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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