The local NDP officials in Alexandria tried to hold ‘Azaa (mourning) for the victims of last Wednesday’s building collapse. Relatives of the victims could be seen, in a video, in a verbal fight with the NDP men, with one shouting: “Get a ladder, and bring this fucking (NDP) banner down!”
Later, Alexandria’s Governor (and former SS General) Adel Labib showed up, only to be chased away by the citizens.
Though they couldn’t make it to the meeting, the Beheira Real Estate Tax Collectors held a “phone conference” with their colleagues in Cairo. They phoned Kamal Abu Eita, who held his mobile phone close to a mike. Surprisingly, this “phone conference” worked (most of the phone conference I witnessed or took part in, with much more savvy technological devices, honestly, sucked)!
The Beheira tax collectors said they have publicly announced the formation of a free union committee, which already held its first meeting after they held elections in their province. This is the second branch for the General Union of Real Estate Tax Collectors – Under Establishment to be formally announced by the Real Estate Tax Collectors after Bani Sweif.
Abdel Nasser updated his colleagues about the situation in Bani Sweif. He said the corrupt, state-backed union officials are now totally smashed, as the free union activists managed to seize their funds and freeze their operations.
The Real Estate Tax Collectors’ leaders held a meeting yesterday that lasted for more than six hours, in downtown Cairo, to consult and report on the latest in their fight to build their free union.