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Strike Leader Kamal Abu Eita: How I became a tax collector
This is the fifth multimedia piece Isabel and I are working on, part of a bigger project to document the fight for free unions in Egypt. In this video, strike leader and former student activist, Kamal Abu Eita, explains how he became a real estate tax collector.
BBC HQ occupied in Scotland
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.”