Signal operators are on a national strike, bringing trains to a complete halt in Cairo, Alexandria, and all the major stations in the Nile Deta and Upper Egypt, since 12 noon. The Signal Operators in Cairo’s Misr Station are slamming their state-backed union officials.
UPDATE: Per Bjorklund reports on the strike.
Via Lenin’s Tomb:
Over 100 supporters of Scottish Stop the War Coalition and Palestinian groups have occupied the BBC headquarters in Glasgow. They say they will not end their occupation until the BBC has reversed its decision not to broadcast an emergency aid appeal for Gaza. The protesters are demanding to meet with a senior representative of the BBC.
And as for Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general who refused to broadcast the appeal, it turns out he “is actually a deeply religious man. He’s a Catholic, but his wife is Jewish, and he has a far greater regard for the Israeli cause than some of his predecessors.”
