bandler has barely slept this week. running on adrenaline. she and her friends are blocking roads in downtown beirut to keep the pressure on the government. i look at. the protests that have erupted have not come from nowhere. this has been building for years we have seen over the past. was very clear. very poor. people paid. planes what that feels like. we started having the problem. so we were running fighting for survival every day. was a suburban morning. that we. were. birds. the 2015 garbage crisis was another turning point politicians bickered who had collected off the streets fueled by their business interests resulting in the country drownding under piles of garbage it triggered demonstrations then to the same messages coming from everyone out protesting now whether sunni shia druze or christian their leaders have become rich adair and lebanon's expects that unity in a society that is defined by the secretary and allegiances is a 1st. not alone when she accuses lebanon's leaders of exploiting sectarianism to keep the people divided.