{"id":875,"date":"2011-03-05T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:08:54","slug":"the_battle_of_zawiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the_battle_of_zawiya\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Zawiya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very brave people in Libya are fighting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41921215\/ns\/world_news-mideastn_africa\/\" target-new=\"tab\" target=\"op_battle_of_zawiya\">in Zawiya<\/a> to free themselves from the corrupt dictator Ghadahfi and his cronies.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/libya\/8363927\/Gaddafi-and-rebel-forces-in-heavy-clashes-in-town-of-Zawiya.html\" target-new=\"tab\" target=\"op_battle_of_zawiya_05mar\">battle is raging<\/a> as I write.<\/p>\n<p>The people fighting for democracy may not win.  They may lose.  But things have changed. The zeitgeist is now imbued with the ideal of democracy.  It&#8217;s just an ideal, without an organized leadership or ideology.  Partly that&#8217;s good because, among other things, it is not a fundamentalist religious movement.  It is an uprising by millions of people who have reached a tipping point. They see the world on the Internet, they see the conditions in their own country.  They want change now.  It&#8217;s not perfect and never will be but it is good change.<\/p>\n<p>If this battle is lost, the war will continue.  This change is inevitable, however long it takes.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, you&#8217;re in line.<\/p>\n<p>Does the power structure in the United States want this?   After having supported so many dictatorships in the world for so many decades?  Well, it&#8217;s time for some change here too.<\/p>\n<p>The working people of the United States, including &#8220;illegal&#8221; people, are also witnessing the events.  Labor, what should be a revered and cherished aspect of our society, can savor this change being lead by the Arab world and other places like Bolivia, whose president is a Llama herder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very brave people in Libya are fighting in Zawiya to free themselves from the corrupt dictator Ghadahfi and his cronies. The battle is raging as I write. The people fighting for democracy may not win. They may lose. But things have changed. The zeitgeist is now imbued with the ideal of democracy. It&#8217;s just an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the_battle_of_zawiya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Battle of Zawiya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}