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I’m preparing a longer posting on the Mahalla Uprising and the aftermath.. It’s taking sometime… but till I’m done, I just want to state on the record from now that I DO NOT endorse the call for a general strike on May 4th. I repeat I do NOT endorse the call for a general strike on the dictator’s 80th birthday (fuckin hell.. the dude is turning 80.. can you believe this shit?!). This is a call that is coming from the cyberspace by bloggers, “Facebook activists” and the Islamist-leaning Labor Party whose leaders have declared themselves more or less as some “provisional govt” in cyber-exile… We, the Egyptian bloggers, have always prided ourselves on the fact that we have one foot on the ground and the other in the cyberspace… But this time, it seems some have thrown both their feet as well as brains in the cyberspace and are living some virtual reality, mistakenly believing (helped by the media sensationalist coverage of the “facebook activism“) that they are the ones behind the events in Mahalla…

More later… But I wanted to make my position from early on clear coz I keep getting queries from fellow activists about my stand towards this and why haven’t I publicized for the strike…