Click on the pic below to check out James Buck’s new blog…

“Don’t talk about the government or security.. If you say anything about the government or security, I’ll cut out the broadcast…”
This is not a State Security officer talking… This is Mr. Tarek Nassar who runs a private studio with a contract with Bush’s Al-Hurra TV in Cairo talking to Ahmad Maher, the Facebook activist who [...]

Click on the photo below to read Omar Said’s article on Mahalla in the Lebanese Al-Manshour…

Photos from an anti-Imperialist march in Paris, 8 May…

I’ve just received news from a Socialist source in Cairo saying detained Ghazl el-Mahalla hungerstrikers Kamal el-Foyumi and Tarek Amin were also transferred to the Bourg el-Arab prison hospital after their health deteriorated… I still don’t have more details about when exactly were they transferred, but their health (and Kareem’s who was transfered earlier) is [...]

Click on the photo below to checkout James Buck’s multimedia page on the Mahalla Uprising…

James Buck: “Though certainly a minority of Egyptians have regular access to the internet and fewer read blogs, the shockwaves created by the leftist revolutionaries blogging Egypt’s social ills do reach the streets.”

The strike leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors have issued a statement on the corruption inside the Tax Collection Authority and the Ministry of Finance… Click on the photo below to read it…

Note that this is the second statement to be issued by the strike leaders under the new name: “The Independent General Union [...]

Comrade Gaber has a new set of graphics on his flickr to commemorate the Nakba…

The Press Syndicate’s Liberties Committee has called for a protest in solidarity with the detained Mahalla labor leaders (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kareem el-Beheiri, Tarek Amin), Saturday 17 May, 6pm, in front of the Press Syndicate…

Sara Kershnar, The International Jewish Solidarity Network… Nakba at 60 Concert, San Francisco’s Civic Center…

The IJSN is circulating the following petition…

Alexander Billet looks at a new album by the Roots, their most political yet…

Ali La Pointe…

Joan Baez…