"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Electricity workers block Beirut highway over layoffs- Al-Akhbar

Dozens of laid-off electricity workers blocked both sides of a major highway just north of Beirut Tuesday morning to demand their reinstatement.
Thousands of motorists were trapped for hours as the workers set fire to tires and fended off security forces who tried to disperse them.
They later reopened one side of the highway, but threatened to stay put until private electricity company KVA re-hires 62 contractual workers who were recently let go.
"We will not leave these streets until the annulment of the layoff memo," Ahmad Shoaib, a member of the electricity workers committee was quoted as saying by Lebanon's state news agency.