A Visual Diary of a Working Class: The Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike

Posted on By 3arabawy

Several bloggers visited the strikers’ camp before its suspension.

Check out some pix by IRC President and by Spellz. Also, Mak forwarded me some shots he took with his mobile:

  • Tax Collectors sit-in, Photo by Demagh Mak
  • Tax Collectors sit-in, Photo by Demagh Mak
  • Tax Collectors sit-in, Photo by Demagh Mak
  • Tax Collectors sit-in, Photo by Demagh Mak

More photos by journalist and friend Jano Charbel:

  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل
  • اعتصام موظفي العقارية بشارع حسين حجازي، تصوير جانو شربل

And some pix by Farah.

Good job ya shabab. I hope the blogosphere continues to devote this excellent attention to the current wave of strikes. Mubarak’s dictatorship will not be overthrown except by a general strike or another Jan 1977.

We need to continue disseminating the photos of the struggles both locally and abroad. “Seeing” the industrial action by photos and/or videos has a ultra-empowering effect on those who are fighting for the same cause in Egypt and elsewhere, more than just “hearing” or “reading” about it.

El-Adly Videogate: ‘Piss on yourself!’

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[Video removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dez7InmpYIY]

A new police brutality video has been leaked out of Port Said Police Station. The officer, videotaping the abuse, is tormenting the detainee by refusing to let him use the bathroom, and ordering him to urinate on himself.

Statement on the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike

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I received a statement signed by the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, the Workers’ Coordination Committee and the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch with more details of the agreement between the government and the strikers.

There’s a mistake however in the last line. The statement says the tax collectors are threatening to resume their “strike” on 9 January if the govt betrays its promises. In reality however the strike resumes. The civil servants will go to their offices but will not collect the taxes. They are threatening to resume the downtown Cairo “sit-in” once again on 9 Jan if the agreement is not fulfilled.

Real Estate Tax Collectors' Strike إضراب موظفي الضرائب العقارية