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Guerrilla filmmakers celebrate anniversary of Morocco’s ‘Arab uprising’

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This story was published by Global Post on February 24, 2014 

By ALLISON SHIRK

RABAT, Morocco — As the sun set behind the train station in Morocco’s capital, a young man sat behind a café window watching protesters march past the parliament building, demanding jobs from the government.

Youness Belghazi, who once was an active member of one of the biggest protest movements in Morocco, no longer marches. Now, Belghazi said, he uses the camera he held firmly in his lap as his weapon against the injustices he says his country faces.

In Morocco, Activists Struggle to Keep Protest Fervor Alive

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Moroccans labor activists march in protest on March 31, 2013.
(Abdeljalil Bounhar/AP) The Christian Science Monitor

By Maddy Crowell, Contributor / April 14, 2013 at 5:17 pm EDT

Rabat, Morocco
Avenue Mohammed V, a wide street that runs directly through Rabat’s centre-ville and past Morocco’s parliamentary headquarters, is the site of nearly daily protests against the country’s government.

Living in Morocco in late 2012, most days I saw the protesters tussle with the police, grow bored, and disperse, laughing over the chase like American children playing tag during recess.

But last November, I witnessed something different: hundreds of unsmiling protesters blocking both sides of the street, demanding government jobs in an economy with massive unemployment.

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