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Labor updates

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch issued two reports, one on the protests by fish merchants in Suez, and the other on the downtown Cairo protests by 10th of Ramadan workers.

Also the Tadamon blog posted a solidarity call from the light bulbs manufacturing factory workers, owned by the Lebanese Egyptian tycoon Rami Lakkah, who are fighting for social insurance, and El-Badeel ran a report on escalating militancy among the northern fishermen, who are organizing a national conference next month.

Protesters call for opening of Rafah crossing, condemn Rice visit

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Sarah Carr reports:

More demonstrations were held Tuesday to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
Organized by the Journalists’ Syndicate and held on the steps of its downtown headquarters, some 60 demonstrators called for the opening of the Rafah crossing and for visiting Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to leave Egypt.

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You can check out more pix of the protest on Flickr.

Also in other developments:

Two Palestinians seriously wounded in Israel’s onslaught in the Gaza Strip died in Egyptian hospitals on Monday, the state news agency MENA reported.
It named the dead men as Ghassan Abd Rabbo, 18, and Aref Daghmach, 28.

Pro-Gaza demos in downtown Cairo, Helwan University

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Hundreds demonstrated Monday afternoon in solidarity with Gaza, denouncing the real Axis of Evil: The US, Israel and the Arab regimes:

Holding up newspaper pictures of the victims of the latest Israeli assault on Gaza, and placards reading “our hearts are with you Gaza,” the roughly 100 protesters chanted “down with Bush, down with Israel,” “Mubarak, the blood of the martyrs is on your hands” and “in order to free Jerusalem, we must free Egypt.”
Various political currents, including left-wing and Islamic groups, took part in the protest, organized by opposition group Kefaya.

Sarah Carr covered the protest, for the Daily News Egypt.

Down with Israel

I received news also that the Socialist Students mobilized hundreds in Helwan University, simultaneously with Cairo University on Sunday.

UPDATE: Zeinobia has an interesting posting about the Cairo University protests.

From well good resources and eye witnesses the protest of Cairo University in solidarity with Gaza against the Israeli aggression did not go as expected.
First it was about Gaza ,then it moved on cursing the Arab leaders then it moved to the high escalating prices in Egypt suddenly. And guess what more people have the protest then from outside cursing the government and the terrible prices that they can’t live with. Regular people from outside the university, from outside. This is an important indication that people are just fed up with those crazy prices.

UPDATE: Here’s a report from the Resistance Students blog about the Helwan University protests.