AUC / Stanford Professor Joel Beinin, a leading expert on the Egyptian labor movement, has an article about the wave of strikes in Egypt over the past two years in the wonderfully designed magazine Waghett Nazar, a kind of Egyptian New York of Review of Books (only better looking). PDF link below.
WN 2008-07 Beinin.pdf

Al-Ahram announced this morning that Mahmoud Gabali, the chairman of Mahalla for Spinning and Weaving, has been sacked and that workers would be given 135 days of pay. The decision, taken by the company’s board, was based on accounting inconsistencies detected by the Central Auditing Agency, a government watchdog. Apparently the audit uncovered irregularities in [...]

Blogging Egypt’s Factory Strikes:
Whether or not this is picked up in the American press shouldn’t matter. It’s a story to pay attention to, however you can.
The textile factory at Ghazl el-Mahalla in the Nile Delta is Egypt’s largest, with over 27,000 workers. Nearly all of the factory’s workers went on strike last December to demand [...]

At last some Western coverage of Egypt’s labor strikes — Labor movement possible future for Egypt opposition:
For every single strike over the past few months, government agencies have been quick to negotiate with the workers and grant their demands, which have generally been for unpaid bonuses, benefits, and salaries.
“The government has the money to pay [...]

The final schedule for the Conference and Forum meetings is now available in Arabic and English. Click on the poster below to download it…

I’ll be speaking in two meetings. The first is on the fight against police torture in Egypt…
Sorry, some last-minute rearrangements… I won’t be speaking at the anti-torture forum. Blogojournalist and friend Abdel [...]

Kefaya activists in Alexandria have called for a sit-in, to protest Mubarak’s dictatorial constitutional amendments, on Monday 26 March, at Manshiya Square, from 9am to 5pm.

Activists from different political tendencies are calling for a demonstration in Tahrir Sq., Sunday 25 March, 6pm, to protest Mubarak’s dictatorial amendments to the constitution.

The organizers of the Fifth Cairo Conference Against Imperialism and Zionism invite you to attend their press conference, 22 March, 12 noon, at the Press Syndicate.
Representatives from the Muslim Brothers, Karama Party, The Revolutionary Socialists’ Organization, Labor Party will brief journalists and activists on the international gathering of anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist activists planned from 29 [...]

Bloggers and human rights activists have called for an anti-torture protest tomorrow Thursday 25 January, 4pm, in front of the Press Syndicate, to celebrate “Egyptian Police Day.”

Participants are urged to bring along banners, posters, and photos of Mubarak’s police torture victims.

This, from the great code poet Alaa Seif, the Pink Dragon of the Bamboo Grove, is more elegant than Haiku:
< /mubarak>
If the new language of Egyptian activism is code, it looks like it will be as direct and as sparse.

Here’s a scan of the front page from the Dec. 19 Daily Star Egypt:

And here’s the original photo:

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Notice anything?
Sources at The Daily Star say their printer unilaterally censored the photo.
Others who have edited publications registered abroad aren’t buying it: They say the printer would sometimes warn them about content that could get an issue [...]

Activists are holding a stand in front of the State Council in Dokki, Saturday 16 December, 10am, in solidarity with Egypt’s Bahaai minority, who are suffering state descrimination against them, that includes refusing to issue any official documents to them, since Mubarak’s “secular” government requires the religion of the citizen to be mentioned on his/her [...]

The Center for Socialist Studies is organizing a talk on “Lebanon: Between Politics and Sectarianism,” Sunday 17 December, 7pm. Speakers include:
Dr. Refa’at Seed Ahmad, Director of the Jaffa Center for Studies
Engineer Wael Khalil, Socialist activist

ندعوكم لحضور ندوة في مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية بعنوان:
لبنــــــــان بيـن السـياسة والطـائفية
يتحدث فيها
د. رفعت سيد أحمد، مدير مركز يافا للدراسات والأبحاث
وائل خليل، [...]

Egyptian activists are holding an anti-torture protest in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, this Wednesday 6 December at 4pm. More details in Arabic here…

Kefaya is calling up on civil society and environmental activists to join the movement’s anti-corruption demo, Sunday 3 December, 1pm, in Matarriya Square to protest the unfair garbage collection fees.
دعوة عامة الى كل القوى الوطنية الشريفة واحزاب المعارضة ومؤسسات المجتمع المدنى والجمعيات الاهلية وجمعيات حماية البيئةتدعوكم الحركة المصرية من اجل التغيير كفاية وبمشاركة لجنة الاحياء [...]

I received news that leftist academics are holding a protest tomorrow Wednesday, from 11am to 12 noon, at Ain Shams University to protest the state-sponsored thuggery against activist students over the past couple of weeks. The professors will assemble in front of Qasr el-Za’afarana, the university’s administration building.

In recent weeks, Ain Shams University campus has [...]

It’s about two weeks old, but Baheyya has written a beautiful portrait of the recently deceased Marxist intellectual and public servant (in the best sense of the term) Ismail Sabri Abdullah.
I wish Baheyya would write more these days, but then again things are so much more depressing than they were last year. I can’t blame [...]

For a follow up, click on the photo below…

In response to the Beit Hanoun massacre of Palestinian women and children, The Muslim Brotherhood, the Revolutionary Socialists and Kefaya have called for a women’s demonstration in front of the Arab League in Tahrir Square, Thrusday November 16 at 2:00 p.m.
The demonstration will be the first street event organized jointly by women activists from the [...]

Kefaya is calling for a demonstration to support judicial independence in Egypt, Friday 17 November at 1pm, in Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street, on the same day the Judges’ Club general assembly will be convening.