I don’t have detailed info yet, but it seems Mubarak’s State Security pigs have been cracking down again on the metal music scene, rounding up metallians in my neighborhood Nasr City, in another stupid attempt to divert the public attention from the dismal economic situation the regime has brought us down to, as well as [...]

The Center for Socialist Studies invites you to discussion on
What’s after 6 April and 4 May?
Abdel Halim Qandeel, Kefaya journalist
Nasser Nouri, Photographer
Haitham Gabr, Socialist journalist

مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية
يدعوكم لحضور ندوة
ماذا بعد 6 أبريل و 4 مايو؟
يتحدث البعض عن إضراب 6 أبريل مرددن أنه لم لم يحقق النجاح المتوقع.. ويقول أخرون أن الإضراب لقى نجاحا حيث أجبر [...]

The dictator gave his May Day speech.. Here’s a Reuters report, by Jonathan Wright…
CAIRO, April 30 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, responding to unrest over low salaries and high food prices, proposed on Wednesday a salary increase of about 30 percent for public sector employees.
In a May Day speech to trade unionists, he told his [...]

I received the following message…
Egyptian police attack Nadim doctors inside Kafr EL Dawwar court house
Police assault Dr. Magda Adly (resulting in cut wound and possible dislocation of shoulder), attempt to steal her handbag and destroy Dr. Mona Hamed’s car
Aggressor admits he acted upon orders of chief investigative officer Ahmed Maklad
El Nadim center had released a [...]

Los Cojolites

Sarah Carr reports…
A policeman has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in absentia by the New Cairo Criminal Court after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman near a police checkpoint.
The convicted policeman Wael Mohamed Ismail, a member of the security patrol force, is currently at large and did not attend the court hearing.
Conclusive forensic [...]

Click below ya shabab, and send the e-card to Attiya Shakran, [ attiyashakran@hotmail.com ] the Press Secretary of Mubarak’s Consulate in San Francisco, demanding the release of detained translator Mohamed Maree…

Detained Ghazl el-Mahalla blogger Kareem el-Beheiri, is now an “uncle” after his sister gave birth to Hanin.. Kareem’s family and friends are sending him a message…

A Socialist activist I spoke with around six hours ago said no lawyers have managed yet to gain access to Kareem and the Textile Workers’ League activists Kamal el-Fayoumi and [...]

Here’s an article on the San Francisco activist community’s use of Twitter in the antiwar protests last March.. Interesting to read when you have the time…
San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are using the micro-blogging service Twitter to coordinate their movements throughout the day.
The group, called Direct Action [...]

UPDATE: It seems Youtube did it again, and has removed the video above.. 3alam zebala fe3lan..

From AFP…
‘Worried’ Egypt PM appeals for help to ease price hikes
CAIRO, April 28, 2008 - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has urged anyone who can resolve the nationwide problem of price rises to come forward with ideas, the official MENA news agency reported on Monday.
Nazif said he was “worried” about price hikes of food, building [...]

No al desplazamiento! No a la Deportacion!
Legalizacion para todos!
Unase a la marcha pro-migrante
1ero de Mayo: dia internacional del trabajador
2pm
Dolores Park (19th St & Dolores)
Coalicion deporten a la Migra, Alianza 1ero de mayo, Liga Internacional de lucha de los Pueblos (ILPS), Alianza Nacional de Asuntos Filipinos-Norte de California
No displacement! No deportation! Legalization for all!
Join the immigrant [...]