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Kefaya demonstrates against Mubarak

Posted on 14/12/200602/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Kefaya’s demo that was scheduled to happen in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office on Monday, was moved due to security siege to the Lawyers’ Syndicate and the Press Syndicate.

Around 100 assembled in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, while 300 others managed to gather in front of the Press Syndicate.

Demonstrators chanted against Mubarak, corruption, and police torture. Activists also extended their solidarity to the Lebanese opposition fighting a US-client government in Beirut. “Hosni Mubarak and Sanioura–Bush is the original, they are the photocopies,” went the chants. The Mahalla textile strikers got also a lion-share of chants in support of their struggle against their corrupt neo-liberal management.

Protesters clashed on several occasions with the Central Security Forces troops that surrounded the Press Syndicate, leading to minor injuries. Photos below, taken by Nasser Nouri:

  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri
  • Kefaya held an anti-Mubarak rally in front of the Press Syndicate and the Lawyers' Syndicate on 12 Dec 2006, Photo by Nasser Nouri

The Revolutionary Socialists distributed leaflets during the demo, calling for wider mobilization within the factories, university campuses, professional syndicates to achieve the radical political change Egypt needs–rather than focusing the struggle on narrow, superficial constitutional amendments within the parliament.

The Revolutionary Socialists, Photo by Alexandra Sandels, Cairo, Press Syndicate, 12 Dec 06

I left the scene of the protests by 4:05pm. By then, 400 demonstrators at the Press Syndicate were chanting, demanding the execution of President Hosni Mubarak on charges of treason and mass torture.

Activists demonstrate against sexual harassment, police failures

Posted on 09/11/200625/12/2020 By 3arabawy

I attended the protest today at the Press Syndicate. Here is a report by Jonathan Wright of Reuters:

Egyptian women protest against mass harassment
CAIRO, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Scores of Egyptian women demonstrated in Cairo against sexual harassment on Thursday in response to reports that gangs of young men attacked women in the street at random and groped them last month.
Eyewitnesses, cited by newspapers and Web sites, said the attacks on women took place on Oct. 23 and 24, the first and second days of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
The reports said police stood aside as mobs surrounded some women and pulled off some of their clothes, and that other women ran away and took shelter in shops and people’s homes.
The Interior Ministry, which runs the police force, said in a statement that it received no reports of harassment and that media reports of the incidents were baseless.
Protesters revived the opposition slogan “The Street is Ours” and called for President Hosni Mubarak and Interior Minister Habib el-Adli to be removed from office.
They taunted the hundreds of riot police who surrounded them, saying they protected the government, but turned a blind eye to attacks on ordinary women.
The Egyptian Center for the Rights of Women, which helped organize the demonstration, said it had received numerous complaints of harassment from women.
Members of the opposition Kefaya (Enough) movement, which led demonstrations against Mubarak last year but has since lost momentum, also took part in the protests.

You can find photos I took of the protest on my flickr account.

Anti-Sexual Harassment, Anti-Police Failures Demo, Press Syndicate

I was delighted today to find out that the Street Is Ours initiative was also revived. It was a coalition launched by women activists last year following Black Wednesday, 25 May 2005. Today their activists were distributing the following statement, calling for a demonstration against sexual harassment, in front of Metro Cinema (where the attacks started) in downtown Cairo, next Tuesday 14 November, 3pm:

الشارع لنا.. ومش هنسيبه!
في 2005 كان أول تحرش جنسي علني وجماعي بالنساء في الشارع في محاولة لإرهاب حركة كفايه، نساءها ورجالها، وتخويفهم من النزول إلى الشارع مطالبين بالديموقراطية.. وكان البلطجية يتحركون بأوامر الداخلية.. وفي عام 2006 أخذوا المبادرة بأيديهم وانقضوا في ثاني تحرش جنسي علني وجماعي بالنساء في أكثر من موقع ليحولوا أيام عيد الفطر إلى جحيم لكل من تواجدت في الشارع تبحث عن ترفيه واحتفال بالعيد.. وقد تم هذا التحرش بحماية رجال الداخلية المتواجدين وفيما بينهما آلاف الحكايات الأقل اتساعا والأقل علانية.. في الشارع وأماكن العمل ووسائل المواصلات والتجمعات حتى الاحتفالية منها.. وفي كل مرة تعلن الداخلية أن شيئا من ذلك لم يحدث.. وفي كل مرة تعلو بعض الأصوات تتهم النساء بأنهن السبب وراء هذا التحرش إما بسبب ملابسهن.. أو بسبب سلوكهن.. أو حتى لمجرد تواجدهن في الفضاء العام.. وكأن طبيعة الأمور هي أن تكون الشوارع والسينمات والملاعب والأماكن العامة ملكا للرجال فقط..
لكن هؤلاء ليسوا هم كل المصريين.. فبين المصريين نساء ورجال ينظر كل منهم للآخر كإنسان جدير بالاحترام والحرية.. في مصر نساء ورجال لن يتخلوا عن حريتهم في الحركة والتواجد أينما يرغبون.. نساء ورجال يحبون الحياة ويؤمنون بأن جمالها لا يكتمل بغياب أو تغييب أو ترهيب نصف المجتمع.. بين المصريين نساء ورجال لا ينظرون إلى النساء على أنهن أجساد معروضة للاستخدام.. ولا ينظرون إلى الرجال على أنهم كائنات غريزية.. بين المصريين نساء ورجال يتعاملون كبشر بكل ما يجب أن يحمله هذا الوصف من إنسانية واحترام للآخر وحب للحرية
ونحن من بين هؤلاء النساء.. لن نترك الشارع ولن نلجأ إلى المنفى في داخل المنازل.. الشارع لنا.. ملكنا وملك كل حر في هذه البلاد..
إننا إذ نتضامن مع جميع النساء اللاتي تعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في أيام العيد وفي يوم 25 مايو وفي كل يوم من أيام العام..
– نعلن أننا سوف نبدأ حملة دفاعا عن تواجدنا.. عن حقنا في الحياة العامة.. وعن حقنا في حياة خالية من العنف والتحرش الجنسي
– وندعو الجميع، نساء ورجال، إلى التجمع أمام سينما مترو (أحد مواقع تحرشات وسط البلد) يوم الثلاثاء، في الثالثة بعد الظهر، تضامنا مع النساء ضحايا أيام العيد وإعلانا بأن الشارع لنا وأن أحدا لن يعزلنا أو يخيفنا بعيدا عنه.
موعدنا يوم الثلاثاء الموافق 14 نوفمبر 2006
في تمام الساعة الثالثة بعد الظهر
أمام سينما مترو

UPDATE: A report on the demo by the Daily Star Egypt.

Journalists, detainees’ wives demonstrate in Cairo

Posted on 16/10/200631/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Dozens of wives of Islamist detainees demonstrated today in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, Downtown Cairo, to protest their husbands continuous detention by the Interior Ministry. Some of them have been in jails without trial since the 1980s.

Meanwhile, a handful of Muslim Brothers journalists demonstrated in front of the Press Syndicate, protesting the closure of the group-affiliated paper, Afaq Arabiya, seven months ago by the government. The journalists posed as vegetable sellers, to symbolize their financial difficulties. “We are left with nothing but selling vegetables ya hokouma,” they were shouting.

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