This year Time magazine is honouring every protester around the world. From Egypt to Lybia to America....... Time has decided to pay tribute to everyone who was a part of a movement for change.
According To Time..............
In the end, it was the image of The Protester — summarizing mass actions against dictators in the Middle East, anti-drug cartel sentiment in Mexico, marches against unaccountable leaders in Greece, the America-spawned Occupy movement, and dissent from the Putin regime in Russia — that appeared on Time’s 2011 Person of the Year cover.
The runner ups were....Admiral William H. McRaven, who organized the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden in May, Ai Wei Wei, the Chinese conceptual artist and activist who helped design Beijing National Stadium for the 2009 Olympics — and was held incommunicado for 81 days and interrogated some 50 times by Chinese authorities last spring and summer while supporters around the world petitioned for his release.
No. 4 on Time’s list is
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Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican whom the magazine credits with bringing to the front of the national consciousness an issue that Washington was loath to confront: America’s ballooning national debt.
And coming in No. 5: Duchess Kate. Having captured the attention and affection of millions, the magazine says, the former Kate Middleton is now “poised to reinvent celebrity with restraint.”
“There’s this contagion of protest,” The managing editor ,Rick Stengel said on TODAY Wednesday. “These people who risked their lives... I think it is changing the world for the better.”
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