The Movement for Liberty and Democracy, which convenes today's protests in Morocco, is a creation of young Moroccans in the Facebook generation, prepared but frustrated, as the protagonists of the video circulating on YouTube under the title Mouvement du 20 fevrier 2011: Qui sommesnous? But to achieve real demonstrations shook the autocratic power in the palace of Mohamed VI will need to have the presence of the inhabitants of slums, the slum-barrios bidonvilles "vertical slums and housing estates in outskirts of Casablanca.
People as participants in a meeting Thursday of the campaign for decent housing in the Old Medina. "Where I live should not live or animals, we must follow the example of Tunisia," said a mother of four, a resident of a slum on the outskirts. Others feared being displaced by real estate and tourism projects signed by star architects.
"My husband earns euros -300 3,000 dirhams a month, have three children, if we run out of house, how shall pay the rent of an apartment of 30 square meters of 1,200 dirhams a month," lamented the wife of a military the Medina. The example of Tunisia and Egypt came out several times in the interventions.
"It takes a catalytic event as in Egypt, and 20 February can be one," said Idriss Houcine, a veteran of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. In bidonville-where unemployment exceeds 30% and illiteracy rates are 64% - that lurk behind the facades of the new Casablanca, rather than Twitter, historical organizations are secular left and the Islamist networks that decide whether the 20-F reaches a popular base.
While human rights activists working in some neighborhoods, young Islamist movement Adl Wal Ihssane, Jusiticia and Spirituality, extend the other. Illegal but tolerated, this organization may have up to 200,000 supporters, more than enough, if it were legalized, to become the strongest party in Morocco.
The great challenge of 20-F and the struggle for democracy and social justice in the country is whether the secular left can find common ground with social claim Adl Wal Ihssane. Although there are doubts on the secular left, Islam is embedded in the political class in both Morocco and Egypt.
While modern cafes of downtown Casablanca women stop releasing the hair, almost all the workers of the meeting lay in the housing in the Medina covered their hair with scarves. Twenty human rights associations supported the call today, ensuring the presence of extra-parliamentary left in the protests.
Even the Socialist Unity Party, which recognizes the legitimacy of Parliament, has joined the call for a constitutional monarchy, crossing a so-called red lines marking the limits of democracy in Morocco. The Party of Progress and Socialism, with 14 seats in the 295, the distance from the protetsas.
"The King and Jasmine made our revolution," said one of its leaders. For its part, the youth of Jusiticia and Spirituality, which until last week had been warily, held on Thursday, a "call to participate in and support all initiatives to establish a state of freedom, dignity and justice, including protests on February 20.
" It has agreed not to chant any religious slogan. It is unknown whether the masses will bidonville the marches today. But while institutional manifestations are expected in the capital, Rabat, and there are small protests by unemployed to study almost every day ", Casablanca and Tangier can be a test of whether the working class Moroccans want to follow the example Tunisia and Egypt.
"I do not know how many of the bidonville go, but there will be more tension in Casablanca and Tangier," said Saud Chibab, a militant human rights group. There are already signs of what could happen. Groups protest against the price of electricity and water on fire on Friday at the police station and a bank in Tangiers. 
People as participants in a meeting Thursday of the campaign for decent housing in the Old Medina. "Where I live should not live or animals, we must follow the example of Tunisia," said a mother of four, a resident of a slum on the outskirts. Others feared being displaced by real estate and tourism projects signed by star architects.
"My husband earns euros -300 3,000 dirhams a month, have three children, if we run out of house, how shall pay the rent of an apartment of 30 square meters of 1,200 dirhams a month," lamented the wife of a military the Medina. The example of Tunisia and Egypt came out several times in the interventions.
"It takes a catalytic event as in Egypt, and 20 February can be one," said Idriss Houcine, a veteran of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. In bidonville-where unemployment exceeds 30% and illiteracy rates are 64% - that lurk behind the facades of the new Casablanca, rather than Twitter, historical organizations are secular left and the Islamist networks that decide whether the 20-F reaches a popular base.
While human rights activists working in some neighborhoods, young Islamist movement Adl Wal Ihssane, Jusiticia and Spirituality, extend the other. Illegal but tolerated, this organization may have up to 200,000 supporters, more than enough, if it were legalized, to become the strongest party in Morocco.
The great challenge of 20-F and the struggle for democracy and social justice in the country is whether the secular left can find common ground with social claim Adl Wal Ihssane. Although there are doubts on the secular left, Islam is embedded in the political class in both Morocco and Egypt.
While modern cafes of downtown Casablanca women stop releasing the hair, almost all the workers of the meeting lay in the housing in the Medina covered their hair with scarves. Twenty human rights associations supported the call today, ensuring the presence of extra-parliamentary left in the protests.
Even the Socialist Unity Party, which recognizes the legitimacy of Parliament, has joined the call for a constitutional monarchy, crossing a so-called red lines marking the limits of democracy in Morocco. The Party of Progress and Socialism, with 14 seats in the 295, the distance from the protetsas.
"The King and Jasmine made our revolution," said one of its leaders. For its part, the youth of Jusiticia and Spirituality, which until last week had been warily, held on Thursday, a "call to participate in and support all initiatives to establish a state of freedom, dignity and justice, including protests on February 20.
" It has agreed not to chant any religious slogan. It is unknown whether the masses will bidonville the marches today. But while institutional manifestations are expected in the capital, Rabat, and there are small protests by unemployed to study almost every day ", Casablanca and Tangier can be a test of whether the working class Moroccans want to follow the example Tunisia and Egypt.
"I do not know how many of the bidonville go, but there will be more tension in Casablanca and Tangier," said Saud Chibab, a militant human rights group. There are already signs of what could happen. Groups protest against the price of electricity and water on fire on Friday at the police station and a bank in Tangiers.
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