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Gafsa mining basin uprising (2008)

On the Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution map as “The Redeyef revolt”

5 Jan – Jun 2008 — When the Gafsa phosphate company publishes hiring results for 380 jobs that seem to reward connections, Redeyef, Moularès, M’dhilla and Métlaoui rise in six months of sit-ins and marches, led by local trade unionists. On 6 June police shoot Hafnaoui Maghzaoui dead.

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Turning point
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Tunisia under Ben Ali (chapter 8 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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Map showing Gafsa mining basin uprising (2008), turning point in Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
TURNING POINT · PROTEST AND CHANGE: SECOND-WAVE FEMINISM AND TUNISIA, 1945–2015

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● 1987 coup● Gafsa trials◆ Ghriba● Ben Guerdane

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