3,000 oil workers demonstrated Sunday in front of the Ministry of Petroleum HQ in Nasr City, according to Tadamon.
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Gaza solidarity protest
The Egyptian Popular Committee for the Solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada is calling for a demonstration, Friday 1st of Feb, from 1 to 2pm, at the Book Fair.
وقفة تضامنية مع شعب غزة
تدعو اللجنة الشعبية لدعم الانتفاضة الفلسطينية جماهير الشعب المصري إلى وقفة تضامنية لفك الحصار على الشعب الفلسطيني في غزة، وللضغط من أجل السماح بمرور القوافل والبشر إلى مدينة العريش..
وذلك يوم الجمعة الموافق 1 فبراير من 1 إلى 2 ظهرا بمعرض الكتاب بأرض المعارض بمدينة نصر
عاش صمود الشعب الفلسطيني
يسقط العدوان الأمريكي الصهيوني
55,000 Tax officers on strike; 3,000 demonstrating in Nasr City
Around 3,000 tax officers are now assembling in front of HQ of the Finance Ministry (Imtidad Ramses St., which links Abbassiya with Nasr City). Elsewhere work stopped at virtually all Real Estate Tax offices, with around 55,000 tax officers taking part in the strike calling for improving their work conditions and their inclusion to the Finance Ministry.
The demonstrators in Nasr City have come from Cairo, Giza, Fayoum, Menoufiya, Bani swief, Minya, Daqahliya, Beheira, in buses, and are chanting against Finance Minister Youssef Boutross Ghali, and Ismail Abdel Rasoul, the head of the Real Estate Tax Administration.
More interestingly, according to a journalist who’s present at the protest, the tax officers are also chanting:
مش حنخاف.. مش حنخاف.. مش لاقيين العيش الحاف
We won’t be afraid.. We won’t be afraid.. We can’t find bread
هما مين وإحنا مين؟ هما بياكلوا حمام وفراخ وإحنا الفول دوخنا وداخ
Who are them, and who are we? They eat pigeons and chickens, while we get headaches from beans
The second chant is a popular line from one of Ahmad Fouad Negm’s poems, and both were chanted in last month’s victorious Ghazl el-Mahalla strike, which was widely covered by the local independent and opposition press. The domino effect is at work.