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Resources on the Revolutionary Socialists

Socialist Students 2.0

Posted on By 3arabawy

To follow news of socialist activism on the Egyptian campuses, please subscribe to the RSS feeds of the blogs of Cairo U Socialist Students, Helwan University Resistance Students, Haqqi, A Socialist In Egypt, Mashahed, and Lenin1917.

Please also add the delicious account of the Socialist Students to your networks. Bookmarks on Haqqi are also available here. Photos of socialist student activities will be uploaded to the Haqqi and Resistance Flickr accounts as well as the e-Socialists Flickr group, while videos will be available on Mashahed’s Vimeo account.


To receive continuous updates about student activism on your mobile phone in Arabic and English, make sure you join the #CUNOW Jaiku channel, and please also add the Jaiku accounts of: Haqqi, Cairo U Socialists, Resistance Students, ReSo, Mashahed, Lenin1917, Tadamon and 3arabawy, to your contacts.

Accessing all this info will be much easier, once we are finished with setting up the Lenosphere Aggregator.

Live-microblogging

Posted on By 3arabawy

While I hate it when people do not switch off their mobile phones completely during lectures and public meetings, this is one thing for sure I don’t mind using the phone for:

We microblog demos and strikes always, but not as much when it comes to lectures. I think it’s a good idea to encourage the audience to live-microblog events, if no wireless or laptops are available, using their mobile phones.
We can tweet quotes from the talks or debates we are attending, say, every five minutes, to update and share the event with a much bigger audience on the net.

So keep tweeting, but please make sure your mobile phones are on silent mode.

Helwan, Mansoura students protest police, education fees

Posted on By 3arabawy

Another day of protests in the Egyptian universities, with Mansoura and Helwan coming under police siege from the early morning.

Police cracked down on Mansoura students, kidnapping an activist, by the name Motaz Adel, on his way out of the university following the protests. Another two students were picked up by the gestapo in Alexandria.

UPDATE: Motaz and the two Alexandrian students have been released.

UPDATE: A report by Sarah Carr on yesterday’s Cairo U protest:

Students renewed their demands for free education and an end to the presence of Interior Ministry security forces on university campuses Saturday, during a demonstration at Cairo University.
“Security bodies ban any and all political, cultural and intellectual activity inside universities. They want to create a generation of young people incapable of saying anything except ‘yes’ to Mubarak Senior and Junior,” Mostafa Shawky, a member of the Haqqy (My Right) Socialist student movement said during the protest.
Cairo University student and Haqqy member Ashraf Omar said that the removal of Interior Ministry police from campuses is students’ main priority.
“We want to link student issues with wider issues in Egyptian society.
Students form part of a society and must take part in its political life. So our most pressing demand is the removal of Interior Ministry security forces from campuses so that we can increase student activity,” Omar said.
He linked the Egyptian government’s domestic policy with its position on regional issues.
“The regime which contains us by the ‘remote control’ of its security bodies is the same regime which is placing Palestine under siege,” Omar said.