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Anti-price hikes protest صور مظاهرة نقابة الصحافيين ضد غلاء الأسعار

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
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Updates from Lebanon

3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:48 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
For continuous updates from Lebanon, Keep an eye on Comrade Farah Kobaissy’s Twitter account and Sursock’s blog…
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The Revolution will be Flickrized

3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 12:07 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Ma3lesh, I’ll go back again to the issue of photography… I gave recently some talks about the Mahalla Uprising, among labor and progressive circles in the Bay Area, as part of the effort (tremendously helped by friends in California and NYC I’m grateful for) to spread the word about what’s going on back in Egypt among [...]
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3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 00:38 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Fuck the capitalists…
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Anti-price hikes protest tomorrow وقفة احتجاجية السادسة مساء الخميس أمام نقابة الصحافيين ضد قرارات رفع الأسعار

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:41 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Journalists are calling for a demonstrations tomorrow Thursday 6pm, in front of the Press Syndicate to denounce the price hikes decreed by the US-backed dictator Mubarak…
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Twittering the Lebanese strikes

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:34 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to follow updates from Comrade Farah in Beirut…
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شبح 1977 يخيم على القاهرة

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:20 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Nasser Nouri of gas stations in the Cairo neighborhoods of Hadayeq el-Qobba, where Nasser lives, and Ghamra… Plainclothes police agents were deployed close to the gas stations, Nasser told me, fearing protests or clashes with angry drivers… According to virtually everyone I speak with in the capital, the [...]
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Egyptian Strikes: More than bread and butter

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 23:02 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
My feature on the labor movement, in the British Socialist Review, is now available online… The mass demonstrations and strikes that have swept Egypt over the last year have transformed the opposition movement. For decades Egyptians lived in fear of the regime - opposition activists were rounded up, imprisoned and tortured, and strikers gunned down - [...]
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Anti-Fascism in Britain: 1936 - 2008

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 22:46 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
1936… 2008…
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Friday: Workers Coordination Committee Conference المؤتمر السنوي الخامس للجنة التنسيقية للحقوق والحريات النقابية والعمالية

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 22:25 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The Workers’ Coordination Committee is holding its fifth annual conference, this Friday at the Press Syndicate… For more information, click on the poster below…
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Beirut paralysed by labor strike

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 18:18 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Beirut brought to a complete halt, amid street clashes… Carole has some pix on her flickr account…
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Seminar dubs April 6 strike a turning point in Egypt history

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 01:15 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Sarah Carr reports on the seminar organized by the Center for Socialist Studies on the April 6th strike… The April 6 general strike was an unprecedented turning point in the Egyptian protest movement, concluded a discussion held Monday at the Center for Socialist Studies titled “What next after April 6 and May 4?” El-Dostour journalist Haitham Gabr [...]
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SF: Activist Art

3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 00:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to check out the website of Fernando Martí…
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Britain, Turkey: May Day Protests

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 23:44 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Thousands demonstrated in Britain on May Day… In Turkey, Istanbul was a scene of riots and clashes with the pigs… I received this message from Comrade Cigdem Cidamli on May 2… dear hossam I could not write you yesterday because of too much tear gas and other events but you can read what happened yesterday from the [...]
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Jordan & Lebanon: Support the Strikers! فلنتضامن مع الإضرابات بالأردن ولبنان

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 23:10 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Our working class brothers and sisters are striking in Jordan and Lebanon over work and living conditions… Spread the word ya shabab to raise solidarity, and I hope the bloggers in those two countries will supply us with more info, photos and videos of the industrial action…
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موت بقى يا غلس

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 22:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
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صور جرسة حسني في بيروت

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 22:16 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Razan Ghazzawi has some photos of the May 4th solidarity with Mahalla protest in front of Mubarak’s Embassy in Beirut…
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Down with Mubarak يسقط مبارك كلب الأمريكان

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 01:18 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
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Writings

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 01:07 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Lilac Alley, San Francisco…
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Mariana ماريانا

3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 00:34 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Mariana Viturro, St. Peter’s Housing Committee activist and pro-Palestinian campaigner…
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