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December 15, 2011

Time Anoints "The Protester" as "2011 Person of the Year" 
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Time Magazine has chosen "The Protester" for its vaunted annual "2011
Person of the Year." Time Magazine editor Jim Frederick said the choice
reflected the growth of people's movements from Tunisia to Tahrir Square
to Occupy Wall Street.

Jim Frederick: "Time chose the protester, the global protester, as
Time's "2011 Person of the Year" because for the past 20 to 25 years,
almost a full generation, protest had stopped being a really viable way
to change the political order. And then suddenly, almost out of nowhere,
all across the globe, you have global, mass market protests that, we're
two regimes down and counting, whether it's in Russia and London, Wall
Street and all across the Middle East, suddenly the protest has become
one of the ways people are actually taking back political power."