Egypt

Freedom for John and Tarek

October 5, 2013 Omar Robert Hamilton, www.madamasr.com Resist! Egypt, Israel, Palestine

John is a filmmaker. A daring, funny, experimental, activist filmmaker. His films fuse politics, humor and music in a way that manages to be eclectic, populist and erudite all at once. His charming agitprop pieces have been some of the key mainstreamers against the occupation of Palestine. His last major film, Fig Trees, is a documentary opera about AIDS activists, sung in part by an albino squirrel puppet. It’s totally brilliant. And now he’s in jail. He’s in jail because he was trying to get to Gaza, with his friend, Dr. Tarek Loubani. Tarek travels to Gaza every year to train emergency physicians at Shifa hospital – the main trauma center of our besieged neighbors. He and John met at last year’s Toronto Palestine Film Festival. They hit it off and hatched a plan to travel to Gaza together, John with his camera, Tarek to his medical students.

Greyson & Loubani: Canadians Held In Egyptian Prison End Hunger Strike

October 5, 2013 Staff, www.thestar.com Resist! Egypt, Media

Two Canadians who have been detained in an Egyptian prison for more than a month have ended a hunger strike they began more than two weeks ago. Dr. Tarek Loubani of London, Ont., and filmmaker John Greyson of Toronto were arrested in Cairo on Aug. 16 and have yet to face formal charges. A website set up to draw attention to their case posted a statement Wednesday evening saying Loubani and Greyson ‘‘have resumed eating solid food under medical supervision.‘‘ The statement adds that both men have seen a doctor and were visited Wednesday by staff from the Canadian Embassy. Loubani and Greyson began their hunger strike on Sept. 16 to draw attention to their detention leading up to a hearing slated for Sept. 30. A secondary demand was more exercise time while in custody, and the website statement says “this was won.”

Statement from Dr. Tarek Loubani and John Greyson

October 2, 2013 Staff www.socialistworker.org/ Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, Middle East, Palestine

"WE ARE on the 12th day of our hunger strike at Tora, Cairo's main prison, located on the banks of the Nile. We've been held here since August 16 in ridiculous conditions: no phone calls, little to no exercise, sharing a 3-meter-by-10-meter cell with 36 other political prisoners, sleeping like sardines on concrete with the cockroaches; sharing a single tap of earthy Nile water. We never planned to stay in Egypt longer than overnight. We arrived in Cairo on the 15th with transit visas and all the necessary paperwork to proceed to our destination: Gaza"

Canadian Filmmaker And Doctor Imprisoned In Egypt Without Charges, Abused After Witnessing Massacre

October 2, 2013 Staff, www.democracynow.org Educate! Egypt, Middle East, Palestine

"Two Canadian citizens — acclaimed Toronto filmmaker John Greyson and medical doctor Tarek Loubani — have been jailed for more than a month and a half in Egypt without charge after witnessing a massacre by state forces on August 16 in Cairo. The two were traveling through Egypt en route to visit Gaza, where Greyson was to film Loubani as he trained emergency room doctors. In a statement smuggled out of their prison cell, Greyson and Loubani say they were arrested after rushing to the scene of a mass shooting of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. Greyson says he began filming the shooting’s aftermath while Loubani treated some of the injured."

Egyptian Arrested for Naming Donkey After General

September 24, 2013 Mariam Rizk, www.freedetainees.org Educate! Civil Rights, Egypt, Freedom of Speech and Assembly

The state news agency says a farmer in southern Egypt has been arrested after putting the military chief’s name and an army-style cap on his donkey while riding it through town. MENA news agency said that Omar Abul-Magd was arrested late Friday in Qena province for allegedly insulting Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who led the popularly-backed coup against President Mohammed Morsi. Since Morsi’s ouster, authorities have cracked down on critics of the powerful military. Earlier this week, a military court ordered five pro-Morsi protesters to serve up to three years in prison for chanting against the army. Three were tried in absentia.

Egypt Joins Israel As Gaza’s Jailer

September 22, 2013 Medea Benjamin & Pam Bailey, www.codepink.org Educate! Egypt, Palestine

"There was a time when activist groups that focused on helping the Palestinians in Gaza reserved their harshest language and protests for Israel, which long has prohibited both air and sea traffic in and out of Gaza; tightly limited exchanges through its Erez terminal; and banned exports altogether[...]However, in the two months since the Egyptian military took control, it has made clear it will no longer serve as that “bridge”. In fact, as the military and other opponents of ousted President Mohamed Morsi increasingly blame Palestinian “elements” for growing unrest and violence, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, the interim government of Egypt has increasingly allied itself with Israel in strategy and actions – becoming just as much Gazans’ jailer as its neighbor to the east."

Canadians Detained in Cairo Begin Hunger Strike

September 21, 2013 Joseph Mayton, www.occupy.com Educate! Egypt, Human Rights

Two Canadian men held for more than a month in an Egyptian prison without formal charges announced this week they had begun a hunger strike demanding their release from Cairo’s infamous Tora Prison where political prisoners are languishing. The two men’s plight, largely ignored by mainstream media for weeks, has finally spurred Canadian coverage of what is being described by family and friends as gross human rights “violations.” Tarek Loubani and John Greyson were arrested in Cairo on August 16, reportedly en route to make a film about hospitals in Gaza. Government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Occupy.com that the pair are being investigated for their role at a Muslim Brotherhood-led protest that saw violence.

The Egyptian Revolution’s Next Barrier

September 14, 2013 Reza Fiyouzat and Shamus Cooke, www.truth-out.org Educate! Democracy, Egypt, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

To prevent the possibility of a civil war between the Islamists and the military regime, the Egyptian revolutionaries must take the initiative. If the rank and file of the Nasserite Party, the Tamaroud movement, the April 6th movement, socialist and trade union groups, and others put forth a united set of demands to resolve the economic crisis by taking revolutionary action, the true voice of the revolution will have found a common platform, a potent expression, and the power of the generals and the Muslim Brotherhood will instantly be weakened, since the rank and file of both groups would be natural recruits and would most likely be drawn to such demands.

Strongman Of Egypt: How General Al-Sisi Took The Revolution’s Thunder

September 6, 2013 Manar Ammar, www.occupy.com Educate! Egypt, Human Rights

"But in popular terms, not since Gamal Abdel Nasser, the regional and international symbol of anti-colonialism in the 1950s and 60s, have Egyptians been so attached to a leader as they are now with al-Sisi. Even after more than 500 people died in the attack and evacuation of two large sit-ins of Morsi backers, many Egyptians support the military’s choice of using force — even if unequal and lethal — to disperse the protests and stabilize the streets. Liberal media aired footage of armed protesters shooting at the police, dispelling the belief that the sit-ins and protesters were all peaceful. They also aired national love songs in support of the military, with some channels showing a side bar that read, “Egypt fights terrorists."

Reports From Egypt Of Youth Activists Arrested, Abused

September 3, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Egypt, Police abuse, Wars and Militarism

Prisoners were called upon one by one and shoved into the anteroom, most having great difficulty opening their eyes as they were exposed to the light. Some had large bruises on both their eyes, while others nursed open and festering wounds on their feet and legs. The police aggressively handcuffed us and threw us to our knees, before doing the same to the other 30 people they'd ushered through. We were then extensively screamed at and beaten, before the guards shoved us back up the stairs. On the way, I caught a glimpse into the fourth cell through a little slit in the door; behind it was a woman cradling a baby in her arms. After being herded outside we were crammed into a prison transport vehicle, where I had a brief chat with a Syrian prisoner. He'd been locked up for 20 days, hadn't been given any food for the first three and was unable to get in touch with his family to inform them of his whereabouts.

Egypt Destroys Homes For Possible Gaza Buffer Zone

September 1, 2013 Maggie Michael, www.bigstory.ap.org Educate! Egypt, Wars and Militarism

Egyptian security officials and residents say the military has demolished 13 homes along the Gaza Strip border for the possible creation of a buffer zone they hope will reduce weapons smuggling and illegal crossings by militants. Northern Sinai government officials said Sunday the military envisions creating a house-free zone with no trees 500 meters (1640 feet) wide and 10 kilometers (6 miles) long starting at the Rafah border crossing. The officials said the homes with tunnels underneath them were bulldozed over the last 10 days as a test of the idea. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Egypt: ‘The Revolution Lives As Long As We Will Die For It’

August 28, 2013 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Educate! Egypt

The conclusion is clear: only an endless and leaderless struggle exhibiting a spirit of absolute democracy and uncompromising fidelity to the revolutionary event of 2011 can possibly resist these formidable powers of military co-optation. Only the decentralized swarms and constituent power of the multitude can survive a relentless crackdown at the hands of the hierarchical authoritarian state. For this reason we must strongly refute the false prophets of the American and European left who continue to urge Egypt’s revolutionaries to somehow develop a formal leadership structure and organize themselves into a party so they can stand for elections and begin their long march through the institutions in order to gradually push back the army and create the preconditions for a functioning liberal democracy. Such well-intended reformist exhortations may be intuitively understandable, but they are ultimately futile in practice. Today, more than ever, it is clear that only the power of the streets can beat back the army (or any other form of illegitimate authority that aims to exercise its rule over the Egyptian people).

Egypt: The Revolution At The Crossroads

August 23, 2013 Thomas Harrison, www.cpdweb.org Educate! Egypt

The revolt, or Tamarod, of June 30 was complex.The Tamarod organization itself was an extremely loose alliance of youth from the Social Democratic Party, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, Mohamed ElBaradei's Constitution Party, and the Revolutionary Socialists (RS). None of these groups, except the RS, are actually socialist or even very left; Hazem Al-Beblawi, for example, a founder of the Social Democrats, is the current prime minister. But behind the Tamarod were millions of Egyptians who wanted Morsi's ouster and prompt new elections. Some 22 million signed the Tamarod petition calling on Morsi to step down, and an estimated 17 million demonstrated in Cairo on June 30 in what may have been the largest mass demonstration in history.

Chris Hedges on “Murdering the Wretched Of The Earth”

August 18, 2013 Chris Hedges, /www.truthdig.com Educate! Corporatism, Egypt, Freedom of Speech and Assembly

The belief systems the oppressed embrace can be intolerant, but these belief systems are a response to the injustice, state violence and cruelty inflicted on them by the global elites. Our enemy is not radical Islam. It is global capitalism. It is a world where the wretched of the earth are forced to bow before the dictates of the marketplace, where children go hungry as global corporate elites siphon away the world’s wealth and natural resources and where our troops and U.S.-backed militaries carry out massacres on city streets. Egypt offers a window into the coming dystopia. The wars of survival will mark the final stage of human habitation of the planet. And if you want to know what they will look like, visit any city morgue in Cairo.

VIDEO: Acronym TV Weekly Resistance Report 004

August 17, 2013 Acronym TV, www.youtube.com Resistance Report Chelsea Manning, Egypt, Nuclear Energy, Police abuse, Racism

Stories covered in the Resistance Report: Egypt: What Role Did The U.S. Play in the Military Coup? Wherein I ask ret. Col. Ann Wright if the U.S. is behind the Military Coup in Egypt. Dream Defenders Declare Victory 31 Days and 30 nights, and the work have just begun. Moral Monday's Power Change something is happening here. And here. And here, and.... Stop and Frisk Declared Unconstitutional! Sorry Bloomberberg, but you suck! Fukushima: Japan's Apocalypse Continues Armageddon NOW! Bradley Manning Apology: An Interview with Alexa O'Brien. What does Manning's Apology really mean?

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