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…
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
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…
Another Facebook activist detained and abused
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:09 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Troubling news about Facebook activist Ahmed Maher… Here’s a report from the Daily News Egypt… The administrator and arguably the real creator of the April 6 Strike group on Facebook Ahmed Maher was detained briefly Wednesday and beaten, his lawyer told Daily News Egypt. Khaled Ali, who is the head of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human [...]
Troubling news about Facebook activist Ahmed Maher… Here’s a report from the Daily News Egypt… The administrator and arguably the real creator of the April 6 Strike group on Facebook Ahmed Maher was detained briefly Wednesday and beaten, his lawyer told Daily News Egypt. Khaled Ali, who is the head of the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human [...]
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 [...]
Mubarak’s pigs order mobile firms to bar anonymous users
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 11:29 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From Reuters… Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday. The move comes as Egypt tries to combat a wave of public discontent over rising prices and low wages that [...]
From Reuters… Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply, Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday. The move comes as Egypt tries to combat a wave of public discontent over rising prices and low wages that [...]
Release Mari’e! الحرية لمحمد مرعي
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-08 00:13 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Despite previous false statements from Mubarak’s spokesperson in SF Attiya Shakran about his release, and renewed false assurances about his “possible release” after 4 May, Mohamed Mari’e (James Buck’s translator) is still incarcerated by Mubarak’s police, and was transferred to Bourg el-Arab Prison, Alexandria…
Despite previous false statements from Mubarak’s spokesperson in SF Attiya Shakran about his release, and renewed false assurances about his “possible release” after 4 May, Mohamed Mari’e (James Buck’s translator) is still incarcerated by Mubarak’s police, and was transferred to Bourg el-Arab Prison, Alexandria…
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…
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…
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 - [...]
Anti-Fascism in Britain: 1936 - 2008
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 22:46 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
1936… 2008…
1936… 2008…
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 [...]
SF: Activist Art
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-07 00:52 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to check out the website of Fernando Martí…
Click below to check out the website of Fernando Martí…
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…
AsadX.Net مبروك يا أبو الأسود
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-06 22:43 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Asad has moved to a new domain… Mabrouk ya Abul Ossoud…
Asad has moved to a new domain… Mabrouk ya Abul Ossoud…
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