La revista Time ha elegido como personaje del año 2011 al "manifestante".
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| (c) Peter Hapak |
Everywhere this year, people have complained about the failure of traditional leadership and the fecklessness of institutions. Politicians cannot look beyond the next election, and they refuse to make hard choices. That's one reason we did not select an individual this year. But leadership has come from the bottom of the pyramid, not the top.
For capturing and highlighting a global sense of restless promise, for upending governments and conventional wisdom, for combining the oldest of techniques with the newest of technologies to shine a light on human dignity and, finally, for steering the planet on a more democratic though sometimes more dangerous path for the 21st century, the Protester is TIME's 2011 Person of the Year.
Fragmento de la Introducción. Texto completo, aquí.
En sus fotografías de Peter Hapak, ha recogido el testimonio de manifestantes de diferentes partes del mundo:
Túnez, Grecia, Estados Unidos, Egipto, España, India, Siria, México, ....
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