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Probably the best picture I have ever taken. I am pretty sure that I won’t get that lucky again.
Hosni Mubarak: “No You Can’t.”
Love this. An eight-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia breaks it down for Mubarak. “Your police are taking off their jackets and joining the people.”
Why is America so afraid?
So racism against Arabs is shutting down the American mind once again. And all my friends must turn to Al Jazeera English to get the soul of the story: that these events are electrifying to Arabs everywhere, a heroic mobilization. And not only to Arabs. When ElBaradei says, I salute the youth for overturning a pharaonic power, lovers of human freedom everywhere must be thrilled. We are seeing a dictator dissolve before our eyes. These are the events we cherished in history books; let us embrace the Egyptian movement.
A message for Obama from Cairo
—via twitter
(via theatlantic)
The latest Cairo uprising protest video. Visit Mother Jones for an up-to-the-minute guide to the uprising.
Police shoot high powered water at peaceful praying protesters. (via @zeenat)
Simply incredible.
An Al Jazeera reporter rips into a US government representative for America’s political support and outrageous financial backing of Egypt’s corrupt government.
AJ: “$1.3 billion [of US money] is going to the the security forces the protesters are fighting against… Surely you are able to go to the government and tell them to stop torturing people”
(Source: expirednovelty)
“Why are Egyptians unhappy? They have basically no more freedom than Tunisians.”
—MJ’s Nick Baumann lays out what’s at stake in Cairo, and how you can follow it in real time, in “What’s Happening in Egypt Explained.”
