Tag: scaf
Muhammad Mahmoud St residents, shop owners bring down army wall
On 17 February 2012, the local residents and shop owners in Muhammad Mahmoud Street hired a crane on their private expense, to remove the wall erected by the Egyptian army to block protesters during the November 2011 uprising.
The shop owners were not comfortable getting filmed and they asked me to stop filming, which I did. They spoke of “their interests and livelihood destroyed because of the wall.” Their unease with the filming clearly demonstrates this act was done without permission from the army necessarily.
The state-run unions, loyal servants of SCAF
In the past, the state-backed unions played a central role in controlling and/or mobilizing the working class on behalf of Mubarak. Today, the continue to be the loyal servants of the regime and its new masters, the army junta.
The state-run federation general unions incited against the February 11th general strike calls in the media and workplaces. The picture below I took during the 10 February march on the Ministry of Defense is just one example.
The state-run public transport workers distributed banners and forced drivers on stick them on their buses, denouncing the strike calls. I and other protesters had a chat with the driver above, and he assured us he had nothing to do with this banner and he was coerced by his managers into sticking it on the bus.