It when they block roads and when they tires and when when the road and. When roadblocks were erected christina and her brother were caught in. It brought back memories of the civil war she was just a young girl when whole districts were separated from one another. She started crying and hugged us because i mean you cannot i guess when you live the things theyve lived you cant not have this fear of civil war breaking out again because i mean its not something clever so. Yeah you can see it in i mean my mom is a little bit. Nothing yet i always say i when i was there was a and even younger. I was much tougher when i became a mother. Im now. Before the office of a more. New even though i was never afraid but i think its there you know. This stone i have to live with again yeah of course i dont want you to live it. Not me i dont want you to live if you were many women. But like despite her mothers fears christina will not stop protesting. People start to think todays demonstration is set to be big shes going with her friend gianna whom she knows from university they had a similar childhood living with their families in the gulf states for a long time because the situation was so insecure in lebanon. This is quite typical there are thought to be about 14000000 lebanese People Living abroad and only about 6000000 in lebanon itself. For you know. I actually really want to be. Like i saw myself. Continuing my life abroad but theres like this new found new found love for 11 i think. In the past few weeks ive grown more attached to it than i ever thought but. There is chaos but this time its caused by the protesters they have chosen to demonstrate on the National Holiday to show the government how much support they have. The middle classes are rising up against politicians who have failed to keep the state from going bankrupt. The frustration has been bubbling her decades but if im not mistaken it was because of all the unnecessary taxing to start the car make some expert in the dark saying. Things like cigarettes. The protesters are also angry about widespread corruption this entire district in central beirut was developed at the behest of the former Prime Minister who profited massively at the cost of mobile business owners. All of this is closed off these arent even like. Taken. Most of the population could never afford to live here its dead capital for the owners. As things stand now there are more cats than people. Like there were people who lived here who had stores here before all of this happened and they would either force them out of their homes pay them a small fee. And everything that happened here just cost or theyre like renting out for god knows how much higher the price so its really its absolute corruption its not fair. The main reproach the protesters have against lebanons ruling class is corruption they say politicians have led the country to bankruptcy the state has massive debts with Interest Rates consuming half of government revenue the infrastructure has suffered all over the country theres no reliable water or electricity supply. The financial crisis is very noticeable in stores where prices have shot up. Theyre going to. Think its a coffee used to cost 2000 lebanese pounds that was 2500. 00. And this cheese used to cost 2000 now was 2750. Prices started going up weeks ago and continue to rise with the bill for you to hold it down again and if you and 5 or 600. 00 a week how can you afford this. And what i used to spend a month is now not enough. To cover a week when theres a misconception many of. Us i recently heard back were running out of grain which is massive. If we keep running out of these things and we dont have the money to import those of course its 35. 00 thats very scary because theyre going to be found innocent people because. Of that. This is another reason why she and the other protesters refused to give up. Today their meeting opposite a brooch a Cultural Center and museum about the 15 year long civil war which killed 150000 people between 1975990. Todays protests are about unity bringing together all the 18 officially recognized religious groups in lebanon the protesters are walking along the former line of demarcation the green line which once divided east and west beirut separating mostly christian and mostly muslim neighborhoods. Than extended. Family. Get out they saying get out you are all corrupt. And then they continue on to martyr square which existed well before the civil war and commemorates martyrs executed there under the ottomans its in the heart of the capital now former activists and people affected by the civil war are also commemorated here. Here we go to. My grandmother and her 2 friends and she believes in change to basically all those you see you. Soon i think now. She did live through the civil war as well. Although she had to carry an belonging i think she just gave up. And she sees me and her daughter were all you know fed up with this is them so she gets to use sectarian divisions are what. Contributed to the civil war and the aftermath in the 500. 00 that they paid the big world but for us its more about breaking this this. Ridiculous wall down that. John is a druze with palestinian roots christina is a christian with a syrian palestinian and italian roots but they both consider themselves simply lebanese. As does christinas boyfriend omar who is a sunni muslim this has logistical implications more than anything else its not an issue for the us but sometimes theyre in for a bit more conservative. As the truth of the so what happens when 2 people from different want to get married they have to see their religion on paper and that is where. A lot of people who are very informally and they just do it for the other people think you can marry me but its really frowned upon by yeah the rest of the family usually when someone wants to convert so you know like why did why are you going to convert more than why them why dont they convert for you. If mixed couples have children they automatically take on the fathers religion in this case and he children would be muslim like oh my generally christinas christian parents accept him. But i think they like no one no they love and they love 6 remove my mom will sometimes. See you christina i love all if only you were it was like if only i looked like i know one of them except for the person you know. This would not be an issue at all if civil marriage existed in lebanon and women generally had more rights but according to the World Economic forums gender gap report lebanon ranks 140. 00 out of 149 we kind of. Thats a shocking idea of a woman as a mother but we dont really go beyond that and see that shes an individual and a human and she she can achieve just as much as on my. Show the women here are also fighting for their rights and using a particular strategy if the situation gets dicey they go out onto the front line in a calculated move to contain the violence they hope to keep the peace by standing between the police and male demonstrators and effective stressful tactics. I was crying and screaming at them to stop telling you enough is enough all the fights that ive seen that happen between men and they always happen over some city misunderstanding that escalates so what we are trying to do is just kind of calm everyone down. Overall the protests have been peaceful and the idea is for them to continue in the same spirit. Christina and her fellow demonstrators know that there can only be real change if they show they are determined. Its going to last until we get what we want. Which is going to take time and i think its important for people to realize that its going to take time but i think its also important for the people in power to realize that we will not stop until we get what we want if it drags on till christmas been until Christmas Day here i will be here. Oh my gosh. 100 and the goats and the o. P. O. 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