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Over 50,000 rally as pro-Gaza demos sweep Egypt’s cities

Posted on By 3arabawy

AFP reports:

More than 50,000 people took to the streets of a dozen Egyptian cities on Sunday to protest against the killing of more than 280 Palestinians in 24 hours of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
The largest protest saw around 8,000 people demonstrate on the streets of Assiut, a city in southern Egypt of 400,000, a security official said, with another 3,000 gathering in Minya, south of Cairo.
A security official said 4,000 people took part in another anti-Israel and pro-Gaza demonstration in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the security official said.
Another 4,000 people rallied outside the Doctors’ Syndicate in the capital against the Israeli onslaught that has also wounded more than 600 Palestinians in the isolated enclave on Egypt’s northeastern border.
“Where is the Arab army?” some demonstrators shouted in Minya, calling for the Israeli embassy in Cairo to be shut down as other demonstrators burned the Israeli flag.
Eight thousand people demonstrated at Cairo University, with another 5,000 involved in another demonstration at Ein Shams University.

Greeks riot against police brutality

Posted on By 3arabawy

UPDATE: An excerpt from correspondence with a Greek Socialist:

You know that on Saturday the police murdered a 15-year-old school boy in Athens
On Saturday we had the first signs of a riot.
On Sunday we organized a mass demonstration in Athens, that went to the Police Headquarters and then to the parliament. It was huge and we marched through banks and other corporations put on fire.
The result is obvious today: there is not one school working all around Greece. All school students left their classrooms and marched in the streets shouting: “Cops, Pigs, Murderers”. Outside my window in Peristeri there was a march of around 3.000 students (12-17 y.o.). All around Greece the same picture. The center of Athens is closed. The government ordered all Universities to be closed in order to avoid mass meetings to decide occupations. In 6pm today we’re having a new demo in Athens. Tomorrow all school teachers are on strike against the police brutality, and the government ordered that the schools would be closed even without a strike to show “the popular grief for the boy’s funeral”. Wednesday is a general strike against the 2009 budget, but everybody knows that it will be a general anti-government earthquake. The reformists are trying to appease people.. eg. the Communist party sends their members to occupy Universities officially in order to make the students stay at home and not get in touch with the general mood. But the revolutionary left is quite big and we can form a center for all the ongoing struggles.