Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Mahalla labor leaders to be released!

Good news from Egypt… The interior minister, the one who in the first place ordered the detention of the Mahalla labor organizers under the martial law, has just ordered their release! The Mahalla 3 in addition to a detained dentist (Ibarahim el-Yamani) have been transferred from the Bourg el-Arab Prison, to el-Gharbeia Province Security Directorate, and according to a Socialist activist they are currently in Tanta’s State Security Police HQ, pending their release…

Long Live the Struggle of the Mahalla Workers! Down with Mubarak the Dictator!

The Mexican Revolution الثورة المكسيكية

Some kick ass video footage of the (1913-20) Mexican Revolution… Here are the armies of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata entering the capital…

Zapata being interviewed by journalists…

Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata in the capital…

The assassination and funeral of Zapata…

The assassination and funeral of Villa…

Portraits: Elders

Planning for Elders, San Francisco

Fely

Fely…

Joann

Joann…

Alcira

Alcira…

Sarando under attack هجوم جديد على فلاحى سراندو

The village of Sarando is under attack once again…

Peasant kid in front of his broken house door

سيد عبد الرحيم

Sayyed Abdel Rehim سيد عبد الرحيم

My cousins

Sayyed Abdel Rehim سيد عبد الرحيم

Sayyed Abdel Rehim سيد عبد الرحيم

Sayyed Abdel Rehim, Nasr City, Cairo…

US army suicides highest in 2007

From Al-Jazeera…

The US army says the number of suicides among active duty troops in 2007 had reached the highest level on record, due partly to the stress caused by deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the full report…

tales of iraq war 6

Detained Mahalla hungerstriker’s health deteriorates in prison تدهور صحة القيادي المعتقل كمال الفيومي المضرب عن الطعام منذ الأحد الماضي

TERRIBLE NEWS..
Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who’s been on a hungerstrike since last Sunday, is vomiting blood in his Bourg el-Arab prison cell… Kamal has stomach ulcers, and his health is deteriorating amid refusal from the Prison authorities to transfer him to the hospital. Kamal was taken only to the Prison clinic around three hours ago, according to Socialist lawyer Ahmad Ezzat, and then returned to his cell.. Ezzat says Kamal MUST be transferred to hospital asap, but the prison authorities refuse to do anything..

Kamal el-Fayoumi كمال الفيومي

Can somebody get us the Google Earth coordinates of Bourg el-Arab Prison in Alex?