Tag: mubarak

What can you do to help?

Posted on By 3arabawy

I receive emails every now and then from Egyptians (and non-Egyptians) abroad who’ve been following with disgust the actions of Mubarak’s police against the citizens, and ask me what they can do to help.

Here are few basic things you can do:

1) Stay updated. Familiarize yourself with the social struggle in the country and Mubarak’s police abuses by regularly checking the following websites:
Torture in Egypt
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (available in both Arabic and English)
Egyptian Blogs Aggregator
Human Rights Watch Egypt (available in both Arabic and English)
Amnesty International Egypt (available in both Arabic and English)

2) Circulate any information you come across about police abuses and the resistance against them to your network of contacts, activists, peers and family members

3) Whenever you hear or read of a torture case that happened in Egypt, try to get solidarity statements with the victims from the institutions you are affiliated with (for example: labor union, student union, community association, human rights organization, political party, etc). Forward the solidarity statement you managed to get to the following:
a) The Egyptian dictator asshole President Hosni Mubarak
b) The Egyptian Ministry of Torture and Pigs Interior
c) The Egyptian embassy or consulate in your town

4) It is always GREAT if you can pull together a protest, no matter how small (even one person with a banner!), in front of the Egyptian embassy or any of the consulates in your own country. Make sure you contact your local press and tell them in advance you are demonstrating, and invite them to attend the protest (even if small). And it would be also useful to take photos yourself of the protest, and upload them to Flickr, your own blog, or just send them to me or any other Egyptian blogger to circulate among the activist and journalist community in Egypt.

These are, as I said above, just few basic things you can do. More later…

Hosni ‘re-elected’ party chief

Posted on By 3arabawy

As expected, at the NDP’s annual carnival of hypocrisy:

Hosni Mubarak has been re-elected leader of Egypt’s ruling party after a vote by members at the start of a party conference.
Members of the National Democratic Party (NDP) voted on Saturday by a margin of 5,248 to 9 to keep the Egyptian president as head of the party for another five years, state news agency MENA said.
It was the first time since Mubarak was chosen to head the party in 1981 that the NDP leadership has been decided by a secret ballot.
In previous party conferences, members simply pledged an oath of allegiance to Mubarak.
Grooming successor
Mubarak is believed to be preparing his son Gamal, now a senior party official, to be his eventual successor.

Via Al-Jazeera

Karl Mubarax

Posted on By 3arabawy

Hosni, you the son of Arabism. O brother, you are so great.. May he, who thought one day of making you grieve, have his hands cut.. He, who does not follow you, shouldn’t live.. He, who does not listen to you, shouldn’t live.

This is a translation of the “poem” recited Wednesday by Ibrahim el-Azhari, the General Secretary of the govt-controlled Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions during the end of the celebrations of the October War anniversary in the Nile Delta province of Qalyoubiya, sponsored by the (also govt-controlled) Young Workers’ Federation.

Ok, I can’t resist this. I gotta translate more of Al-Azhari’s juicy quotes:

“Mubarak, may God make him alive longer, is the peasant, the worker, the soldier.. President Mubarak feels for all the society’s classes and represents them,” he said adding that there was nothing better than poetry to counter the president’s critics.
Moreover, Al-Azhari said that the Young Workers Federation has collected President Mubarak’s speeches in a two-volume encyclopedia, titled “Mubarak’s Encyclopedia of Labor,” clarifying that the US Library of Congress already ordered it and the encyclopedia is in circulation.