Archive for May, 2008
Updates on the Mahalla detainees
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 13th, 2008 in Activism, Egypt مصر, Labor عمال, Left يسار, Police شرطةI received the following message from a Socialist activist in Cairo…
.العمال الثلاثة بدأوا إضرابا عن الطعام منذ الاحد الماضى حالة كريم تدهورت أمس الأثنين ..احتجاجا على الافراج عن جميع المعتقلين السياسيين سواهم
The three labor activists (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kareem el-Beheiri and Tarek Amin) started a hungerstrike Sunday, to demand their release… Kareem’s health condition has deteriorated [...]
Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 13th, 2008 in Amreeka, Culture, Music موسيقى, VideoLouis Jordan…
Venezuela nationalizes steel firm
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 13th, 2008 in Activism, Labor عمال, Latin America, Left يسار, VenezuelaFrom the BBC…
President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree to nationalise Venezuela’s biggest steelmaker, Ternium-Sidor. Argentina’s Techint, which owns 60% of it, has been given until the end of June to hand it over.
In the past two years the Venezuelan state has taken over foreign-controlled companies including cement, telecoms, oil, gas and electricity firms.
President Chavez [...]
والثورة هي الأكيدة
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Culture, Egypt مصر, Left يسار, Music موسيقى, Palestine, Video, Zionism, Zionist Terrorism إرهاب صهيونيSheikh Imam… Ya Falastineya…
Which side are you on?
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Amreeka, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Imperialism إمبريالية, Labor عمال, Latin America, Left يسار, Music موسيقى, Palestine, Video, Zionism, Zionist Terrorism إرهاب صهيونيRebel Diaz…
Portraits بورتريهات
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Amreeka, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Labor عمال, Left يسار, Photos صور, ZionismNoora, US Palestinian activist…
Hanin, Palestinian activist…
Jess Ghannam, US Palestinian activist and radio talk show host…
Lily Haskell, Arab Resources and Organizing Center…
Allison, Students for Justice in Palestine activist…
ISO organizer Snehal Shingavi and activist blogger Yaman Salahi…
Jennifer Mogannam, Students for Justice in Palestine activist…
Sami, US Palestinian activist…
Sara Kershnar, Anti-Zionist Jewish activist in the Bay Area, and one [...]
Postcards from Egypt: قاوموا خنازير الداخلية
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Egypt مصر, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Mubarak مبــارك, Police شرطة, VideoStop Mubarak’s police brutality…
“In times of famine, speculators must be shot on the spot”
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Economy, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Labor عمال, Left يسارVia Lenin’s Tomb…
Speculators feast on soaring commodities prices
By Tony Jackson, Financial Times
Sunday May 11 2008 11:50
In times of famine, Vladimir Ilych Lenin took a robust line on speculation. “We can’t expect to get anywhere,” he told the Petrograd Soviet in 1918, “unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot”.
Rather strong, perhaps, [...]
جميل جمال
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Egypt مصر, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Mubarak مبــارك, Music موسيقى, Police شرطة, VideoState-owned ISP blocks Kefaya website
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Egypt مصر, Ewwwwُُ, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Left يسار, Police شرطةFrom AFP…
A government-owned internet service provider has blocked the website of a leading opposition movement, a rights group said Monday, in the latest crackdown on the country’s cyber dissidents.
“The website for the Egyptian Movement for Change — Kefaya has been blocked in Egypt [for] users who have access to the internet through TE-Data … since [...]
Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool in Canada
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Canada, StudentsI think this is a good idea that may be our activist professors can try it also with their students in Egypt to support the Arabic Wikipedia…?
Italy: Thousands protest Turin book fair’s Israel theme
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Culture, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Italy, Palestine, Zionism, Zionist Terrorism إرهاب صهيونيFrom AFP…
Between 3,000 to 4,000 people gathered Saturday to protest against the Turin book fair’s decision to showcase Israeli writers, an AFP photographer at the scene said.
“Free Palestine” organizers put the demonstration’s attendance at 10,000, while police said 1,500 had turned out to criticize the book fair’s choice to highlight 60 years of the Jewish [...]
Mahalla labor detainees on hungerstrike معتقلو المحلة يبدأون إضرابا عن الطعام ببرج العرب.. ووقفة إحتجاجية لتأييدهم يوم الأربعاء أمام القضاء العالي
Published by Hossam el-Hamalawy May 12th, 2008 in Activism, Breaking News, Egypt مصر, Human Rights حقوق إنسان, Labor عمال, Left يسار, Police شرطةKamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri have started a hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison demanding their release…
There will be a protest in solidarity with the detainees in front of Dar el-Qadaa el-3ali, downtown Cairo, 14 May 12 noon…
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Detained blogger Kareem el-Beheiri's health is deteriorating due to hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison (arabawy.org) 3 hrs ago
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