"ساحة الشهداء" بانتظار المتظاهرين السبت و"طلعت ريحتكم" تؤكد أن "الشارع ملكا للناس"

Asaad, please be honest, just tell the public that you are being driven by your Marxist ideology and stop hiding behind lofty named NGOs.
Besides the garbage issue would have been resolved by now except that "someone" had been blocking the government from functioning properly, shouldn't you be addressing them too?

dream on! and hezbollah weapons and its wilayat al fakih will let you do it your way.;)How are you going to deal with resistance-army-people equation;)

I agree with Baroud...it is the municipalities that should be handling the trash collection and disposal instead of a centralized party which is obviously not capable of meeting everyone's needs.

My dear Lebanese compatriots. I just want to be extra careful. I don't mean to frighten you for demanding your rights.... but it started with similar demonstrations in Syria and the rest of the Arab Spring.... look where they are now. There are people who want to destroy Lebanon and those who are pulling the strings might be behind the demos... I just want to wish you all good luck and I hope you know what you're doing, because if YOU destroy the country, YOU will be held accountable... exactly like the people you have in your line of sight.

@min Canada
Bravo
I could not have put it in a better way. I am hoping that this will be the result of our social manifestation. No more of these crooks. We want our money back and hang all the crooks and stop hereditary power. we are a parliamentary democracy and not a monarchy

min Canada
here is my concern. You got 4 thumbs down. What have you said wrong ? nothing yet 4 thumbs down
Pfffffffffffffffff

He will hv us backing him
Barroud, marwan charbel..any honest guy willing to work for lebanon and not making lebanese people work for him is welcomed and from now on there will b people backing him.....
But fir now the goals are clear; 1 waist problem
2 nouhad machnouk resignation (let him b tmroleodel)
3 judge the armed forces guy that overused power against manifestations... (And the guys sent for turning it into a riot)
Those are alreaddy fine.. For a start...

When you wake up that is ya Sa7elnom.

May God be with those brave people who have shown the real way. May God be with them all, young, children, old, all, if we want change, then Saturday 29 August 2015 at 5 PM Beirut time, come and do it for your country. It's been 70 years, 70 years they've suck our blood dry, stole our mountains, our seas, brought us waves after waves of refugees, wars, you name it, they did it. We can spend the next decades nagging and complaining, but they know, if we don't move, they will not move, so people of Lebanon, get off your chair, do what is for your future, show them that we can remove them, M14 and M8, let them give us back our country.

@ anonym
Ziad Baroud or Damianos Khattar will certainly and by far be better presidents that our current candidates. they can face Iran, KSA and anybody else when they have popular support.

The Islamic Republic of Iran stands with the lebanese people in their rightful fight to regain their rights from the elite corrupt ruling party. The republic is sending whatever it can to ensure the success of this campaign. Our people in lebanon have joined the demonstration but were attacked by the brutal security zionist forces. Go ahead and continue the struggle until you achieve our and your ultimate goal of making lebanon a model in how the islamic revolution can bring peace and prosperity to its followers.

@Phoenix
Hello my friend. I am not sure your read my earlier message the other day. I am in Beirut and want to participate tomorrow and would like to meet you if possible. Please let me know if possible.
Thanks

sa7elnom. Good point.

min canada.

Liberty is right. We cant do anything with Hezbollah's weapons hanging over our head. we can kick right left and center and manifest all we want, but best case, a new M14 will be created, and HA will squash it with its weapons. I suggest sticking to manifesting for the trash issue, for cordoning off Brital from lebanon, and for parliamentary elections. Forget the rest for now.

@Lebanon first
I was not sure whether he was being sarcastic or serious. And yes I do think there are some lunatics would love to see Lebanon modeled a 14th century.Unfortunately

Nice way to cover your faces boys so no one would identify you when you are burning and breaking public and private property.

Finally I read that some young Lebanese do believe that the only hope for better future for Lebanon is to end the sectarian system which brought only misery to the country and to the people, I sincerely hope that the rest of the population will be persuaded that this is the only way for peace, freedom, and independence. wish you all the best.

http://s11.postimg.org/enxsha14z/ree7ab.jpg

Leb first marcha 14 was unable to stop hezbos arms despite we voted them the majority in 2005 and 2009 and all tge power/money they have..so it is unfair to ask civil society to do that now
Let s start with the waste, resignation of environment ministry and trial for the armed forces who used excessive force (as their official statement asked for..
It would alreaddy be a good start, no?...

We tried it, how about trying the demos and civil society for a chance?

I've been supporting most 14mqrch poistions aiming at preserving the state and taking off illegitime arms of any millicia and mostly hezbos (now engaged in this retarded war under the banner of "lebayka ya hussein"
But this doesnot mean that i was with extension of parlement!!!!
So yes we want parlementary elections, we want electricity, watter, social security, education.... But let us start by the waste issue..
And my friend sad to say march 14 did nothing except concesions after concesions while getting us and more into obscene corruption, so why not give civil sovciety a chance for a change?....

People seem to forget that without Hezbollah.. there would be no Lebanon. It would be called Israel and if you deny this fact you are ignorant and maybe a little sick

Wakeem, Nahass and the Teacher coummunist union all under GhizEbolah are The Til3it# Nizlit# Ri7itkoun# Etc. Bunch of toys in the hands of the grand master, As for Mashnouk .. he did not control the broken by FPM Ta3teel and the Jumblat helping the problem to explode, had it been an active Majlis Wizara it was himto blame... but it is FPM and then GhizEbola that closed all roads to any active Majlis.

here is an example of what I was talking about: LBCI was attacked yesterday because they included the picture of nassrallah as part of the political class that needs to be changed. This was only for a photo, imagine what would happen if they were talking about the weapons. Nassrallah is above criticism.... and you want to convince me you can affect change;)
وقع اشكال على خلفية وضع "المؤسسة اللبنانية للارسال" خلال نقل مباشر صورة للامين العام لـ #حزب_الله للسيد حسن #نصرالله بين مجموعة الصور التي وضعوها للسياسيين وكتب عليها عبارات يجب ان يرحلوا وانهم من الفاسدين. وتهجم عدد من الشباب على فريق عمل "ال بي سي" وازالوا الصورة بالقوة
http://www.annahar.com/article/263206-اشكال-مع-lbci-على-خلفية-صورة-نصر-الله?utm_source=mostread&utm_medium=annahar&utm_campaign=daily

@min-canada
Don't understand me wrong! I am all for change. But you have to be realistic and see the facts. Unless there is a revolution that starts from within the Shia community there will be no real change in Lebanon. When 99% of the Shias support nassrallah and consider him a god and when hezbollah is still armed no "peaceful" change can be affected. The demonstrators have not been calling for election of a president and they know who is behind the obstruction. They are afraid to call things as they are. Hezbollah's weapons are the root cause of all our problems: from corruption to you fill in the blanks.

When the demonstrators include at the top of their demands the disarming of hezbollah and changing the political class including nassrallah then I myself will come from California and be at the front of the demonstration.

@liberty is spot on. In 2005 the demonstrations produced what was believed a new dawn for Lebanon. It did not.... the reason is while the liberals and free thinkers produced M14 in its original idealistic packaging, the shiites of Lebanon produced M8 and solidified their grip on power through hezbollah's arms. When they resigned from Saniora's government, they paralyzed the country and eventually carried out a military coup in May of 2008. You can get rid of M14 anytime you want, but how will you get rid of : 1) Junblatt 2) Berri and most importantly 3) Nassrallah and what he represents. Until then, these demonstrations are nothing more than some romanic liberal fantasy.

نتلهى دائماً بالقشور على حساب الجوهر. نعم هناك أزمة نفايات. نعم هناك أزمة اقتصاد . نعم هناك أزمات لا تحصى ولكن جوهر الأزمات هو انتخاب رئيس للجمهورية وما عدا ذالك يَصْب في مصلحة هذا او ذاك. اذا كنّا نريد الوطن ان يقف فان أولى مهمات التظاهرات هو مطالبة جميع النواب بالنزول الى المجلس وانتخاب رئيس دون إبطاء. ليس المهم من ننتخب بارود سليمان حرب او او او بل المهم لانتخاب وعزل كل متخلف لأننا انتخبناهم للقيام بواجباتهم تجاه. الناس وهذه أقدس الواجبات. كفانا مهاترات ان المجلس غير شرعي ومجلس الوزراء يتخطى حدوده والبطرك يجب ان لا يبدي رأيه. فإذا أراد الناس الخلاص فهذه هي الاولوية لتظاهراتهم .
في الحقيقة صدق المثل " يا عنتر مين عنترك فاجاب تعنتت وما حدا ردّني " وينك يا عصا

very good comments above... I like also to add that whatever change is requested now seems to be targeted at 20% of the problem. Let's assume these demonstrators got what they wanted and they rose to power and replaced the current ruling class. Who will they be sharing power with or who will they be sitting across the table from in a cabinet meeting? Will it not be the same hezbollah ministers such as Fneish, Raad, and Mousawai? I think those behind the demonstrations are missing the mark or are implementing an agenda that seems to converge with Aoun and Hezbollah. I agree with Liberty that unless a real change takes place within the shiiaa community nothing will happen. The Shiiaa are happy with Hezbollah's rule of Lebanon since they can steal, trade in drugs, kidnap, use weapons, etc without any consequences.