A labor organizer recalling Mahalla’s 17 February anti-Mubarak demonstration, which is the biggest labor march ever to be organized since the dictator rose to power in 1981:
As workers assembled in the compound near the gate, Central Security Forces showed up, in full gear. They parked two of their trucks in front of the factory gate so as to block the exit and make it impossible for the workers to leave the premise. The workers pulled and pushed the two trucks with their hands. Yes, just like that, with their hands and moved them hundreds of meters away from the gate… and stormed out into the town.