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2 m2 m1 a. N0 q+ ]& _4 e! ETVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。《時代》周刊每年都會挑選風雲人物,有的時候讓人心服口服,有的時候卻教人摸不着頭腦。喬治布殊兩次當選都沒有甚麼說服力,特別是○四年再當選簡直教全世界瞠目結舌,禁不住問「為甚麼?」。今年《時代》周刊選出全球的示威者( The Protester)卻實至名歸,教人心悅誠服。不管是美國總統、中國國家主席或金融大亨今年都及不上示威者搶鏡,都不像示威者那樣改變全球政治經濟面貌,甚至撼動看似牢不可破的政經體制。 $ y; B9 A( i2 j2 I9 L; q5.39.217.765.39.217.765 g* ^6 B) G0 R8 T2 n
一年前的十二月,誰也沒料到掌政超過三十年的埃及強人穆巴拉克會狼狽下台,成為階下囚;誰也沒有想到會出現一場席捲北非中東的茉莉花革命,令回教世界遍地開出民主之花;誰也預計不到被視為最牢固的專權政體在人民力量下可以如斯弱不禁風。可就從一一年一月開始,北非、中東人民突然被春風吹醒了般紛紛走上街頭,走向廣場,堅持抗爭,即使流血喪命也不計,即使當權者以坦克重武器打壓威嚇也不怕。抗爭者付出血與淚的代價,咬緊牙關堅持再堅持下,令一個又一個專權者倒下,中東北非整個地緣政治情勢出現翻天覆地的巨變。而且震波還未平息,未來一、兩年甚至更長時間這股人民力量還將繼續重塑地區以至全球的地緣政治格局,例如以色列如何自處,美國在區內有何角色,敍利亞會否成為下一塊骨牌……等。公仔箱論壇' D6 Y; q/ ?( l/ {8 B
/ M% a5 @% d! t$ a* E公仔箱論壇中東北非的茉莉花革命當然醒目,但在多個發達國家城市出現的「佔領」行動特別是「佔領華爾街」行動意義同樣深遠。自八九蘇東波巨變,蘇聯東歐集團崩潰後,不少人認為歷史已終結,社會發展已到盡頭,全世界只剩下資本主義市場經濟加民主政體這條路可以走,其他路特別是社會主義或共產主義是走不通的。政治干預、群眾運動不再是推動、改變歷史的力量,只能等待市場讓世界變得更美好。一場金融海嘯不但掃走巨額的財富,更掃走了很多人對資本主義及市場經濟牢不可破的信心。從政黨、政客到一般人發現過去二、三十年原來華爾街及其他金融機構都在玩着「我賺錢、你付鈔」、「公仔我贏字你輸」的不公平遊戲。每次炒賣出事或冧市,出錢救市的總是納稅人,賺取豐厚利潤、花紅的金融精英大鱷卻分毫不損,把金錢袋袋平安。今次的情況更糟,多國政府為了救市被迫削減其他開支,令一般市民的生活苦上加苦,令一般市民更深切體會現行體制的不公平不合理。結果,一個又一個城市有民眾站出來,質疑金融霸權,質疑資本主義體制,打出「 1vs99」的口號以反映體制只讓極少數人得益,大多數人受苦。目前還不知道這場在發達國家城市遍地開花的運動能持續多久,能否繼續壯大;假若「 1vs99」運動發展下去成為持久戰,發達國家的統治意識型態便會受到嚴峻挑戰,久未看到的「階級戰爭」便有可能重燃。9 E( W) K2 P6 j0 u
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二○一一年的風雲人物的確是示威者。其實,一九六八年、一九八九年的風雲人物也是示威者特別是示威學生,只是《時代》周刊眷戀帝王將相,沒有把人民放在心上而已。作者: felicity2010 時間: 2011-12-17 10:24 AM
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公仔箱論壇/ y* k: s8 t3 f& L TIME Person of the Year ' p: w+ e; I- }# G5.39.217.76 " Y" w2 z: E; Z- F) ]5.39.217.76 " g7 V) ?( Y' b9 ~. [; D1 Ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe Protester by Kurt Andersen(Excerpt) ( l; @ r9 ^' ~0 C& @0 @0 dTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。5.39.217.76) e$ g$ O1 q5 B) _& Z w
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6 m+ p: G( i. _/ k0 A0 ~5.39.217.76History often emerges only in retrospect. Events become significant only when looked back on. No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square in a town barely on a map, he would spark protests that would bring down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya and rattle regimes in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. Or that that spirit of dissent would spur Mexicans to rise up against the terror of drug cartels, Greeks to march against unaccountable leaders,Americans to occupy public spaces to protest income inequality, and Russians to marshal themselves against a corrupt autocracy. Protests have now occurred in countries whose populations total at least 3 billion people, and the word protest has appeared in newspapers and online exponentially more this past year than at any other time in history.公仔箱論壇( A8 q1 n. \9 @( R5 M/ t( I6 ]/ x
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Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it seems, people said they'd had enough. They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the answers came back in a cloud of tear gas or a hail of bullets. They literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective, colossal change. And although it was understood differently in different places, the idea of democracy was present in every gathering. The root of the word democracy is demos, "the people," and the meaning of democracy is "the people rule." An they did, if not at the ballot box, then in the streets. America is a nation conceived in protest, and protest is in some ways the source code for democracy — and evidence of the lack of it. , ~3 u8 A7 n( H5 ~5.39.217.76 - F) |9 u e! c$ }3 T* Z0 L5.39.217.76The protests have marked the rise of a new generation. In Egypt 60% of the population is under the age of 25. Technology mattered, but this was not a technological revolution. Social networks did not cause these movements, but they kept them alive and connected. Technology allowed us to watch, and it spread the virus of protest, but this was not a wired revolution;it was a human one, of hearts and minds, the oldest technology of all. ( t4 S3 v' `9 P5.39.217.765.39.217.769 K$ R0 ~( v) o& k# j# O
Everywhere this year, people have complained about the failure of traditional leadership and the fecklessness of institutions. Politicians cannot look beyond the next election, and they refuse to make hard choices. That's one reason we did not select an individual this year. But leadership has come from the bottom of the pyramid, not the top. For capturing and highlighting a global sense of restless promise, for upending governments and conventional wisdom, for combining the oldest of techniques with the newest of technologies to shine a light on human dignity and, finally,for steering the planet on a more democratic though sometimes more dangerous path for the 21st century, the Protester is TIME's 2011 Person of the Year.公仔箱論壇* n0 f. H7 S$ {3 k+ ~
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; C) Z9 `0 _6 B...... , _2 E; K2 A1 h) I( Rtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbOnce upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons to declare themselves opposed,it was the very definition of news — vivid, important, often consequential. In the 1960s in America they marched for civil rights and against the Vietnam War; in the '70s, they rose up in Iran and Portugal;in the '80s, they spoke out against nuclear weapons in the U.S.and Europe, against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, against communist tyranny in Tiananmen Square and Eastern Europe. Protest was the natural continuation of politics by other means. tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb6 y) v: Q; l: O, l
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And then came the End of History, summed up by Francis Fukuyama's influential 1989 essay declaring that mankind had arrived at the "endpoint of ... ideological evolution" in globally triumphant "Western liberalism." The two decades beginning in 1991 witnessed the greatest rise in living standards that the world has ever known. Credit was easy, complacency and apathy were rife, and street protests looked like pointless emotional sideshows — obsolete, quaint, the equivalent of cavalry to mid-20th-centurywar. The rare large demonstrations in the rich world seemed ineffectual and irrelevant. (See the Battle of Seattle, 1999.) TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。' n; w/ L! D: v+ X, V8 L& f
! K) ~& Z, x$ Z* |. e- U% s, U& FTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。There were a few exceptions, like the protests that, along with sanctions,helped end apartheid in South Africa in 1994. But for young people, radical critiques and protests against the system were mostly confined to pop-culture fantasy: "Fight the Power"was a song on a platinum-selling album, Rage Against the Machine was a platinum-selling band, and the beloved brave rebels fighting the all-encompassing global oppressors were just a bunch of characters in The Matrix. 5 v# L' }; F, V( p& _; h
8 x( `0 ~9 Z. [: a8 eTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。"Massive and effective street protest" was a global oxymoron until— suddenly, shockingly — starting exactly a year ago, it became the defining trope of our times. And the protester once again became a maker of history.
