Reposted from Starhawk’s Blog GFM 4 12-29 Morning So, back to yesterday. I never made it over to the French Embassy, where the French contingent has been encamped, surrounded now by the Egyptian police and not allowed to leave although people have been allowed to pass in food and water. Our encampment in front of [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Before leaving the states, we reached out to Mrs. Mubarak, wife of Egyptian premiere Hosni Mubarak. She had interceded on our behalf when we were having the same experience with the Egyptian Government in March, when they refused to let our buses take us to Al Arish, as they did this morning at 7 a.m. [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
A lot was happening across the world in Cairo yesterday as I and a friend painted faces on our "I am Gaza" signs in preparation for our upcoming "Gaza Freedom Solidarity" march in Minneapolis on Wednesday, December 30.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Bill and I are under house arrest as are all other Gaza Freedom Marchers that made it as far as El Arish.
Monday, December 28, 2009
repost from Sam Husseini at http://husseini.posterous.com/ Just after midnight I couldn’t sleep. Went out to get a bite to eat or maybe a glass of wine to help me sleep. See several CodePink people and others with the Gaza Freedom March, say they are going to the French embassy — they had put out an [...]
Sunday, December 27, 2009
By Yvonne Ridley The activities of the rent boys who parade up and down Al-Shawarby Street in Cairo provide a good metaphor for the relationship the Egyptian Government has with Israel and the US. Both are quite shameless and ruthless; prepared to do whatever it takes to please … in order to secure a fistful [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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