Holy cr@p! Anyone watching the protests in Egypt? (eta link)

[EFerrari]

I won't post to the video forum because I don't know what the title means. But this video is being tweeted around. A big street protest, and a protester tries to bloc a big water cannon from moving forward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTUsqra-MU

More images here:

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/25/egypt-the-january-25-demonstrations-in-photographs/

Collection of images (and video) here:
http://www.breakingnews.com/filter/egypt-protests

[denverbill]

1. It's only a matter of time before Egypt turns into Iran, Part II. n/t

[WinkyDink]

4. Perhaps there is more corruption than we know, Horatio.

[Drale]

6. I think its probably only a matter of time before protests like this

spread throughout the Mideast, I know egypt technically is in Africa but still.

[SharonAnn]

2. Wow! Just wow!

[tekisui]

3. Glued to it.

Today was a planned 'Day of Anger'. The size of the protests surprised the cops. They want Mubarak to fall.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/20111251711053608.html

[EFerrari]

5. I'm having a lot of trouble with language barrier.

Where are you watching? :hi:

[tekisui]

9. Was watching here:

Better Believe It posted this link earlier.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown

Live blogging at the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia

[EFerrari]

15. Thanks. n/t

[EFerrari]

16. Omg. It's almost midnight there and the street is full!

[tekisui]

17. Tomorrow will be interesting. Reportedly, Egypt shut down twitter and facebook.

They were surprised by today's numbers. No doubt the military/government are preparing for more tomorrow.

[EFerrari]

20. Protest at NDP office @ Mansoura:

http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2011/1/25/egypt-video-the-day-of-revolution.html

[Paper Roses]

7. Just read about it . 3 dead. Video on MSNBC.com (Sorry about the site.)

[Soral]

8. REVOLUTION! Here is a link to a live feed...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia

[EFerrari]

11. Thank you!

[eissa]

10. It was like Tianamen Square

This revolution is so long overdue. It's about time the Arab street started holding their own governments accountable for their economical and social failures, rather than buying into the conspiracy theories that are constantly fed to them.

[blindpig]

22. The same could be said of us. n/t

[xchrom]

12. i hope people realize this about mubarak and jobs.

egypt is a very locked down economy with cronyism run rampant.

some of the protestors maybe want a conservative islamist government -- but my guess is not most.

[eissa]

18. Sadly, you just described most of the middle east

And their oppression of any opposition means that the only ones allowed to thrive are the religious ones (because none would dare go up against religion because...well, we all know why.) It's a tragic self-fulfilling prophecy: they tell the people that the only alternative to their rule are the islamists, but their oppression of any other voice only gives the islamists more power.

[denverbill]

21. Maybe so, but I don't think Iran was about religion initially either.

The shah was a brutal, repressive dictator. The people hated him and the people who propped him up (us).

[girl gone mad]

24. Excellent point. This is a secularist uprising..

against the rentiers and economic terrorists, not a religious movement.

[jonnyblitz]

13. Efferari, In a few days, Jan 27, it will be the one year

anniversary of Howard Zinn's death. :( Time flies...

and thanks for these Egypt links! :hi:

[EFerrari]

14. Yes, it does.

I still miss Howard every day.

[EFerrari]

19. Blog post at boingboing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/25/egypt-protests-inspi.html

[EFerrari]

23. These people at not winding down.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown

[fishwax]

25. figured the events in Tunisia would spread

but wow :wow:

[Joanne98]

26. They're vowing to protest until dawn! GO EGYPT!

[EFerrari]

28. Anything from State Dept? Nothing from PJ @ twitter. n/t

[pampango]

27. BBC video at link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12273238

Anti-government protests have broken out in Egypt after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.

Thousands of protesters are marching through Cairo chanting anti-government slogans, after activists called for a "day of revolt" in a web message.

Riot police have tackled protesters in the capital, using tear gas to try to disperse them.

The BBC's Jon Leyne has been watching events unfold and described "remarkable scenes" in the Egyptian capital.

[Sparky 1]

29. It appears only men are protesting? I don't see any women in the crowd pics. n/t

[EFerrari]

30. The stream I'm watching is too dark to tell who is out there

except it's a BIG crowd.

[girl gone mad]

32. I see a lot of women there.

[Sparky 1]

45. Thanks. What I'd seen had no men in the pics. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. Bottom left, next to the man wearing the lavendar sweater. 5 rows behind him, two women

[Bigmack]

31. Good article on this at

aljazerra english. Pictures are more dramatic at above mentioned sites, the this is pretty good. Ms Bigmack

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/20111251711053608.html

[EFerrari]

33. Thanks, Ms. Bigmack!

:hi:

[Shagbark Hickory]

34. I've been watching US media, and all I've found was this incredible video.

http://tinyurl.com/ydqw8sm

[EFerrari]

35. There's hardly anything here. Check out this live stream if you can:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown

:wow:

[EFerrari]

36. Sounds like the main location of protest has been tear gassed heavily.

Zeinobia Zeinobia
by Emma_A
RT @alshaheeed: Whole of Tahrir square is one massive cloud now with more than 50 tear gas cannons fired #Jan25 #Egypt

[EFerrari]

37. Police crack down on thousands at Cairo sit-in

By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press – 4 mins ago

CAIRO – Egyptian police are firing tear gas and beating protesters to clear thousands of people from a central Cairo square after a day of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30 years in power.

The largest protest in Egypt in years was inspired by Tunisia's uprising and saw people crying out for Mubarak to step down and for a solution to Egypt's grinding poverty.

A large security force moved in around 1 a.m. Wednesday, arresting people, chasing others into side-streets and filling the square with clouds of tear gas.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters inspired by Tunisia's uprising staged the biggest demonstrations in Egypt in years, facing down riot police who beat them with batons and fired water cannons in clashes that left at least three dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_protest_28

And nothing on cable or network news. :shrug:

[EFerrari]

38. Egypt protests: 30k in Alexandria, 50k in Cairo, 6k in Mansoura,

tamersalama Tamer Salama
by mogwailun
Egypt protests: 30k in Alexandria, 50k in Cairo, 6k in Mansoura, more in Aswan, Quina, Arish, Mahala. No media cvrg, Twitter blocked #jan25

[EFerrari]

39. A dam breaking in Egypt (CSM)

A dam breaking in Egypt
Cairo

Today Egypt experienced the largest outpouring of public fury at the government since January 1977, when cuts in government food subsidies saw hundreds of thousands of Egyptians pour into the streets in an uprising that shook the government of then President Anwar Sadat.

That ended three days later with dozens dead but the Egyptian poor who spearheaded the action triumphant: Sadat restored the subsidies.

The protests in Egypt today, with tens of thousands on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, industrial Nile Delta towns like Mahalla El-Kubra and Tanta, and the port city of Suez, were thankfully nowhere near as violent (though late in the evening in Cairo on Tuesday there were reports of security forces taking a tougher line with protesters camped out in Tahrir Square). And the chances of today's protesters having their demands met in anything like the time-frame of 1977 are slim and none.

After all, they're seeking the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, who ascended to the presidency after Sadat's assassination in 1981. A popular uprising in Tunisia may have just pushed out President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but Egypt -- the Arab world's largest country with a vast security establishment -- is something else again.

But activists, political analysts and average people in Egypt insist that something crucial shifted for Egypt today. Egyptian political scientist Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid predicts that now the dam has broken, protests will continue. “the reservoir of discontent is huge,” he says. He adds it is much too soon to talk about a revolution in Egypt, where several factors would make a Tunisia-style toppling of Mubarak much more difficult.


http://www.scoop.it/t/coveting-freedom/p/6250796/a-dam-breaking-in-egypt-csmonitor-com

[EFerrari]

40. US sees Egypt's government as stable despite protests, but caught in another difficult spot

By: Bradley Klapper, The Associated Press
25/01/2011 3:28 PM

WASHINGTON - The United States expressed confidence in Egypt's government on Tuesday and urged calm amid the largest public protests in years.

It was an awkward endorsement of an authoritarian regime that is a key Arab ally for Washington.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the government of President Hosni Mubarak is stable and trying to respond to the needs of protesters. Egyptians gathered in thousands in Cairo to protest Mubarak and his three-decade grip on power. Some hurled rocks and clashed with riot police.

Clinton said Egyptians have the right to protest, but urged demonstrators and the government to avoid violence.

"We support the fundamental right of expression and assembly for all people and we urge that all parties exercise restraint and refrain from violence," Clinton said at a news conference in Washington.

http://www.brandonsun.com/world/breaking-news/clinton-says-egypts-government-is-stable-despite-protests-urges-sides-to-avoid-violence-114582994.html?thx=y

[stevedeshazer]

41. E, didn't you get the memo?

We're supposed to be concerned about who Eric Cantor sits with!

Seriously, this is some serious seriousness. Wow.

[EFerrari]

42. Caption: Egypt's tear gas, made in the USA

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(sorry, can't post directly)

[EFerrari]

43. 30-40 PHOTOS from Pierre, who lives high above Tahrir Square

TeaWithCarl Carl Levinson
30-40 PHOTOS from Pierre, who lives high above Tahrir Square http://ping.fm/bXqI9 this is revolution RT

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=617584&id=889875511&fbid=10150383370695512

[EFerrari]

44. Collection, citizen video:

http://jotman.blogspot.com/

[Kurovski]

46. K&R

Wow. The new media is great for this.

great job, EF.

[KillCapitalism]

48. Nice to see them putting pressure on the ruling class.

We should be out there doing the same, but that's never going to happen.

[PufPuf23]

49. Good thread EF. Glad we share basic perception of US foreign policy...

again. In operations research one could say the USA has a policy of going the shortest rather than the most efficient path.

oops spelling.