Image via Wikipedia The protests have various elements that make the whole group of events (events that are still ongoing as I write this post) transcendental:
A group of people, from all kind of backgrounds and walks of life, gathering to protest peacefully for what they believe is wrong and have been wrong for many years: oppression, injustice, corruption, unemployment, poverty, and lack of opportunity and hope. This peaceful demonstrations, as we all know, were unfortunately disrupted with violence from some supporters of Mubarak, but it is admirable how protests have returned to being peaceful again.
Several things have happened that are amazing examples, and for myself are huge signs of hope: the people hand by hand surrounding the Alexandria Bibliotheca and Cairo Museum to protect them from thugs, the Christians making a human wall surrounding and protecting Muslims in their prayers........it was just beautiful and amazing; humanity in the making.
Peaceful demands and action for fair and positive change sure will spread in the world, at least that's my hope. In one country where actions like these are highly needed is the Dominican Republic. In December of last year I was very happy to see the development of a peaceful protest movement in the Dominican Republic. These protests aimed at the comply by the government with a part of the Dominican Constitution which makes a law the provision of the 4% of the budget to be used in education and education initiatives. This law hasn't been applied by any Dominican Government for decades; this have been a true setback for a country that has a high percentage of illiteracy among its citizens Dominican Republic's literacy score was 89.1 in 2007 as reported by the UNESCO; but in my opinion, a more realistic score for the country should be much lower). A poor and inefficient public schools system, not enough good teachers, a complete lack of public libraries, and many other problems that have been worsen with the violation of this law.
The peaceful protesters were very well organized, and they gathered into a massive peaceful protest on December 6 of 2010, Monday. It was called "El Lunes Amarillo", or Yellow Monday. All people was encouraged to dress yellow that day, and thousands did. It was a great way of peacefully protesting and was spread in the whole country. El Lunes Amarillo was a success, at least in partial terms. The president of Dominican Republic made provisions by increasing the education budget for 2011, but it fell short of the 4%. Several groups have been formed around the protests and are continuing the peaceful fight for achieving the objective; an objective for the better of the people of the Dominican Republic.
I think that whenever a good and fair thing is seek by good means by and for the majority, a good change comes.
I hope things start to improve in Egypt, Dominican Republic, and the rest of the world as a result of the good actions of the good people everywhere.
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