Samar Tlili

Samar Tlili (Tunisia) works as a teacher for French at Highschool and is right now involved in a countrywide teacher strike against the privatization of schools, the raising of the retirement age, for betterwages and other demands. The strike is at the heart of resistance to the new austerity program adopted by the government in January to meet IMF requirements. She is active in the campaign "Manich Msamah" ("I do notforgive") which was launched in 2014 to oppose the reconciliation bill that granted amnesty to bureaucrats who had profited from corruption under Ben Ali. Starting as a social media hashtag, Manich Msamah gathers activists from abroad range of backgrounds, such as student unions, leftist parties, and newly politicized members of civil society. Especially women are very active in this new movement, which became a crystallization point of social struggles. Tlili has written and talked about this movement.