Blogger Kareem el-Beheiri uploaded some photos of the Mahalla detainees’ families:
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‘We want a free syndicate’
“There are two systems for education in Egypt,” said Omar Morsi, a Cairo teacher, during the Saturday protest. “A foreign system for the children of the rich, who live in closed compounds and lead a different life-style; and the other one for the children of the ugly duckling–our children! The first one has all the privileges, while the second has none… We want a free syndicate! We want a syndicate that doesn’t sleep! We want a syndicate that doesn’t fear (the govt)!”
“If we don’t build the union, our gains will be taken away. We still have more rights to win”
Kamal Abu Eita, addressing other members of the Higher Committee for the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ Strike who convened in Cairo on Saturday, to carry on their fight to build what will be Egypt’s first independent labor union in half a century.
