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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Amazing Courage

Posted by Allana Marie Haist at 1:32 PM
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Labels: courage, heroes, non-violence, only-in-Egypt, protest

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Non-violent protest



Here is a video: on the history of non-violence in the Arab world
Posted by Allana Marie Haist at 10:03 PM No comments:
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Labels: egypt, non-violence, patriotism, peace, protest
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