مناضل
3arabawy - Sun, 2008-05-11 23:41 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Arab labor organizer Monadel Herzallah, Nakba at 60 Concert, San Francisco’s Civic Center… UPDATE: As I was going thru my archives, I found another photo I like of the Herzallahs, from last October’s antiwar protest… I thought I’d share it with you, and I’d like to thank Monadel and his comrades for all the solidarity work [...]
Arab labor organizer Monadel Herzallah, Nakba at 60 Concert, San Francisco’s Civic Center… UPDATE: As I was going thru my archives, I found another photo I like of the Herzallahs, from last October’s antiwar protest… I thought I’d share it with you, and I’d like to thank Monadel and his comrades for all the solidarity work [...]
May Day greetings from Oakland
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 11:38 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
US workers strike against the war…
US workers strike against the war…
The Memory of the Class: The Mahalla Uprising إنتفاضة المحلة
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 10:06 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Visualize the Revolution… [Click on the pic above to watch a slide show of the Mahalla April Uprising. The set was digitally edited by me, using Adobe Lightroom, but all photos were originally taken by the brave photographer Nasser Nouri, who was shot by a rubber bullet and later detained by the pigs, yet he [...]
Visualize the Revolution… [Click on the pic above to watch a slide show of the Mahalla April Uprising. The set was digitally edited by me, using Adobe Lightroom, but all photos were originally taken by the brave photographer Nasser Nouri, who was shot by a rubber bullet and later detained by the pigs, yet he [...]
Activists protest in solidarity with Mahalla in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago وقفة تضامن مع معتقلي المحلة أمام قنصلية
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 06:45 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received photos of the protest organized by activists in solidarity with the Mahalla detainees, in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago…
I received photos of the protest organized by activists in solidarity with the Mahalla detainees, in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago…
Which side are you on?
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 00:47 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From the memory of the class…
From the memory of the class…
Workers mark May Day with mass protests around the globe
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 23:15 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From Socialist Worker… Hundreds of thousands of workers across the world took part in celebrations and protests to mark International Workers’ Day on Thursday. The demands of the demonstrations were remarkably similar – no to privatisation, defence of public services and migrant workers, and higher wages to deal with the soaring price of food and fuel [...]
From Socialist Worker… Hundreds of thousands of workers across the world took part in celebrations and protests to mark International Workers’ Day on Thursday. The demands of the demonstrations were remarkably similar – no to privatisation, defence of public services and migrant workers, and higher wages to deal with the soaring price of food and fuel [...]
الأتراك يتضامنون مع فلسطين
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 23:09 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Comrade Cigdem Cidamli sent me a couple of pix and a report on a Palestine solidarity event in Istanbul…
Comrade Cigdem Cidamli sent me a couple of pix and a report on a Palestine solidarity event in Istanbul…
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…
For continuous updates from Lebanon, Keep an eye on Comrade Farah Kobaissy’s Twitter account and Sursock’s blog…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
Click below to follow updates from Comrade Farah in Beirut…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - [...]
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 - [...]
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…
The Workers’ Coordination Committee is holding its fifth annual conference, this Friday at the Press Syndicate… For more information, click on the poster below…
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…
Beirut brought to a complete halt, amid street clashes… Carole has some pix on her flickr account…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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…
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…
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…
Razan Ghazzawi has some photos of the May 4th solidarity with Mahalla protest in front of Mubarak’s Embassy in Beirut…
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…
Mariana Viturro, St. Peter’s Housing Committee activist and pro-Palestinian campaigner…
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