Three women from Qale’t el-Kabsh slum were sentenced to one year in prison for demonstrating in downtown Cairo this past summer!
The women’s names are: Kareema Abdel Fattah, Safeyya Muhammad and Mona el-Sayyed.
Updates: Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike
The meeting that was due to take place today Thursday between the strike leaders and the Finance Minister was postponed again. This time the strike leaders were told they would be contacted by the ministry on Sunday to be notified of a meeting date.
There’s a feeling among the strike leadership that the minister is try to dodge implementing the rest of the demands. On their part, the leaders renewed their threats of staging another sit-in on 9 January.
Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem
One of the films I watched back in California, and was very touched by, is one made by a Japanese visiting scholar, Masako Sakata, on the devestating effect of Agent Orange, used widely by the US forces in Vietnam during the war.
In the case of Masako, the film was literally a personal requiem as the tragedy was to touch her personally, with the passing away of her husband, a US Vitenam war veteran-turned-photographer and anti-war activist.
