tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post1314802749421373021..comments2024-03-18T13:13:41.444+02:00Comments on Egyptian Chronicles: The Demands of #May27 Million Man ProtestZeinobiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290387395565291310noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-87298964474774937602011-05-26T14:25:49.166+02:002011-05-26T14:25:49.166+02:00What about the curfew?What about the curfew?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-51596087314348557242011-05-26T12:50:38.547+02:002011-05-26T12:50:38.547+02:00Be patient, it shall take time for real change. Gi...Be patient, it shall take time for real change. Give the military government a break so they can work to meet the demandsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-26732900472937475682011-05-26T10:03:23.870+02:002011-05-26T10:03:23.870+02:00Thanks for the video, Bay Sweetwater. Now, more t...Thanks for the video, Bay Sweetwater. Now, more than ever, we need to be reminded that this revolution was and is being fought for freedom and dignity for Egyptians, for a government that is transparent and accountable to the people, and economic justice.<br /><br />None of these have been achieved yet, and instead of working towards them, our "revolutionary" government is doing everything possible to terrorize us into not even wanting them.<br /><br />Freedom is kokh: do you want fanatics and baltageya to be free to kill you and burn down your holy places and take over your country?<br /><br />Dignity is kokh: if you don't hug and kiss and "honor" the police torturer/rapist/killer Basha, don't expect any police protection at all. <br /><br />And the army? <br /><br />http://msheshtawy.com/mosaab-el-shamy-noscaf/<br /><br />So much for dignity. <br /><br />Transparency and accountability for the Armed Forces Council? With the imperial decrees that they keep pulling out of their...um, hat, their "sacred" status that puts them (and their finances) above question and makes them answerable to no one (at least no Egyptian citizen), and their all-too-familiar practise of letting criminals run wild but torturing and kidnapping and even killing peaceful protesters, Mubarak by any other name still smells the same.<br /><br />As for economic justice, forget about it: the economy is ruined!! Famine is looming!! The WHEEL OF PRODUCTION has stopped turning!! You're scaring away the businessmen with all your nonsense about stamping out corruption and cronyism and making them pay their fair share of taxes and a minimum wage just high enough to keep you from starving to death. Get back to work, you sons of whores, on your knees, keep your head down, do what you're told! Only the Americans and the Saudis and the World Bank and the IMF can save us from this mess you made!! <br /><br />On May 27, 2011, the Egyptian people will fight back with the only weapon they have: their bodies, their voices and their numbers.<br /><br />The demands are still the same as they were before January 25th: freedom and dignity for Egyptians, transparency and accountability for the government, and economic justice.<br /><br />Show the world that we mean it. Be there and be counted among the free Egyptians who are Egypt's only hope.Alicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-53273584219032610242011-05-26T01:03:08.980+02:002011-05-26T01:03:08.980+02:00Congratulations to the brave Egyptian people. Here...Congratulations to the brave Egyptian people. Here is my American video tribute to you all. http://youtu.be/PPGu0IskH8YBay Sweetwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828984487030553548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-15249180635674926912011-05-24T21:47:56.681+02:002011-05-24T21:47:56.681+02:00well said Alicewell said AliceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-56803259674210222002011-05-24T10:12:35.218+02:002011-05-24T10:12:35.218+02:00I think all the demands are very reasonable and in...I think all the demands are very reasonable and in fact the minimum that we should have achieved with the revolution, especially that it was a GRASSROOTS, POPULAR revolution, not a revolution of the middle and upper classes. <br /><br />Without these economic demands, then it truly does become a "Twitter" and "Facebook" pseudo-revolution, like those stupid Western imperialist-sponsored color "revolutions" that served only predatory outsiders and privileged locals at the expense of the majority.<br /><br />At least 70% of the Egyptian population is struggling to survive under inhumane conditions, and it is their revolution too, or should be. <br /><br />They are not asking for the moon, on the contrary: if we consider Egyptians to be human, worthy of human rights and human dignity, these are very fair and modest demands.<br /><br />In some ways, the upper-middle and business classes in Egypt are no different from the Salafists and Muslim Brothers who are trying to hijack the revolution, who insist that THEIR demands are urgent, but those of the truly suffering majority can wait (indefinitely).<br /><br />For example, it makes no sense for an editor of a state newspaper to earn millions every month from a newspaper that is billions of pounds in debt, while the journalists are paid LE 300 and LE 500. If the revolution can't or won't address such outrageous parasitism, which is endemic especially in the public sector, then it's a farce.<br /><br />Also, the economic demands will do a lot more to stimulate the economy in a healthy way than getting even more loans from the blood-sucking World Bank and IMF. Egypt has plenty of wealth, the problem is that it is concentrated in the hands of a very corrupt and extremely unproductive elite, who have used very immoral and often criminal means to obtain it. <br /><br />If this is to be a true revolution OF the people, BY the people, then the upper and upper-middle classes shouldn't allow the comforts of their privileged lives to blind them to the desperate need of their fellow Egyptians for economic justice AS WELL AS political justice.<br /><br />In revolutionary Egypt, just as being Muslim shouldn't blind one to injustice against Christians, and being male shouldn't blind one to injustice against women, being comfortably well off shouldn't blind us to the appalling injustice against the majority who are economically oppressed in this country.Alicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-8807272994488019222011-05-24T09:59:57.697+02:002011-05-24T09:59:57.697+02:00All to clear all break, and then what? Made the re...All to clear all break, and then what? Made the revolution, rezultrat not like! Make another! So it is possible to infinity, instead of what would work, to go every Friday and trebovat.Otlichno neighbor has more than, I mean he'll take away something I want! "Martyr, Martyr, who called them on Tahrir? Who forced to throw stones? themselves go, so no they do not have to! Excellent'll give the economy into the hands of the revolutionaries with brain inflammation, destroying everything to the ground! A revolutionaries would go to businesses and check from their capital? "There is no longer investment! your meager brain is not enough for such projects mashtabnyh .... What can you, it's every week, sit in front of a computer and think that life keeps us from today? moron!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-30738670861964334622011-05-24T00:56:03.422+02:002011-05-24T00:56:03.422+02:00Zeinobia, there other lists that you might want to...Zeinobia, there other lists that you might want to check out:<br />http://goo.gl/pMIZI <br />http://goo.gl/U2oJK<br />http://goo.gl/9FlDM<br />I am going to Tahrir on the May27, but I am really praying that a consensus will be formed around a single key demand that we could all rally behind. My bias is to demand freedom for incarcerated protesters and putting all those responsible for killing protesters on trial. That includes Mubarak, his family and his coterie. i.e. Justice.Perfectionatichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608003377360584716noreply@blogger.com