On the eve of the ‘march of a million people’

by on January 31, 2011 13
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Here are two videos:

The demands:

And the fear barrier is broken:

And this is just a personal favorite from the past amazing week:

About Adam Horowitz

Adam Horowitz is Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Israel/Palestine

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  1. mymarkx says:
    January 31, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    I think this video is also important, because it shows the wide variety of people involved in the Egyptian revolution, but I don’t know how to embed it here:

    link to youtube.com

    A rough translation somebody posted as a comment on YouTube is:

    I thought this needs to be translated but it’s way too hilarious in Arabic since? he sings it in rhyme .. Alaa Mubarak, who demands royalties on every business he commissions, And they say he repented but he’s stuffing his face with meat (kababb lol), Guess It’s his daddy’s money. Money does what it wants, While people became dirty poor, No to Mubarak No to Sulieman, To hell with tyranny. We want a civil state, Not for sects or religious ideology (x2), Not for sects or for bandits!
    soulibmbm”

  2. Shingo says:
    February 1, 2011 at 1:00 am

    So powerful.

    So many images that will become iconic, especially the call to prayer in while being attacked by water canon. How can anyone with a heart not be exhilarated and overwhelmed by the human spirit?

  3. James says:
    February 1, 2011 at 2:11 am

    i like the poster near the end of the first video of the women – “usa…. that’s enough”"

  4. Sumud says:
    February 1, 2011 at 2:39 am

    I’ve read Egyptians on twitter asking for Tuesday’s event be referred to as the Million Masry March rather than the Million Man March as media are currently calling it – because it acknowledges the contribution women are making [Masr is the Arabic name for Egypt, Masry = Egyptian].

    The turnout should be huge today. I’ve read that in the chaotic days after Friday when Mubarak’s looters were out in force many women stayed at home to protect the house/family while the men went out to protest. After Sunday’s protest when fighter jets were swooping over Tahrir Square Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Democracy Now said via his twitter feed that he passed through 14 neighbourhood checkpoints on the way back to his mother’s house.

    From Kouddous’ twitter feed on Sunday night (and what a scoop for DN, they’re really going from strength to strength after their fantastic wikileaks coverage):

    heading home to my mom’s house. The crowd is still strong here but she’s alone & we’re one of few streets w/o neighborhood patrol. #Egypt

    Army checkpoint in Zamalek. Armored vehicles & several soldiers. Checked my ID, a few questions and I am waved through

    passed thru neighborhood patrol. Most holding sticks, teenager holding shotgun. They gave me yellow armband to wear to avoid harassment

    So many neighborhood patrols. Young and old men man posts check incoming cars and IDs #Egypt

    I have walked though no less than 10 checkpoints and still not home. Pretty sure our house is safe #Egypt

    Finally home. I counted 14 checkpoints on the way #Egypt

    A few hours later (during the night):

    Gunshot just rang out underneath my house. Neighborhood patrol grabbed some guy–chasing a second on motorbike #Egypt

    Thanks for all your concerns. We’re all safe. So many checkpoints leading to my house–looters don’t stand a chance #Egypt

    Because the streets have been secured from looters people now feel comfortable to leave their homes to come out to the protest.

    *Watching the Al Jazeera English live stream in the background while writing this one of their guests just referred to the uprising as ‘intifadah’, wonderful.

    A staple of hasbara has been the distortion of language, with intifadah becoming a dirty word in the 2000′s, to the point where Daniel Pipes & co. successfully campaigned to have Debbie Almontaser fired from the school she founded (she was forced to resign under threat that the school would be closed if she didn’t) because of a very vague connection to a woman’s group who has made T-shirts saying “NYC Intifadah”. Perhaps now that word can be reclaimed.

    So many good things are going to flow from these uprisings – I predict it will be the death of hasbara. It’s like throwing water on the wicked witch.

    • occupyresist says:
      February 1, 2011 at 3:27 am

      So many good things are going to flow from these uprisings – I predict it will be the death of hasbara. It’s like throwing water on the wicked witch.

      Exactly. Finally Arabs are regaining their SPINE, their SELF-RESPECT. And hasbara will not have a void to fill.

  5. Lydda Four Eight says:
    February 1, 2011 at 2:45 am

    mods you may want to move this elsewhere … Lupe Fiasco just premiered “Words I Never Said” listen up:
    link to lupefiasco.com

    lyrics:
    Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
    Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
    Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either
    I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
    And I believe in the people.

    … Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them
    Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went

    Read more: link to killerhiphop.com

    Read more: link to killerhiphop.com

  6. Citizen says:
    February 1, 2011 at 5:34 am

    Not much about this in the USA MSM, the growing public linkeage regarding the last 30 years, the USA, and its “baby,” Israel: link to jpost.com

    Meanwhile in the US cable TV news, the constant refrain is instilling fear in the American people about the Muslim Brotherhood. Why? Many of the talking heads on FOX especially, have directly implied the unseen hand behind the popular revolt is the Brotherhood, when this simply is not true, the Brotherhood joining late in the revolt. Why? It can only be because the Brotherhood in power would first move to end the constant kissing of Israel: link to jpost.com

  7. Frances says:
    February 1, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Such a stunning, brave, intelligent girl and the courage and resilience of those men!

    P.S . I especially love how at the end of the first video, you can the man man holding a cat with a sign that says “No MuBARK”. Bark, geddit?

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