Inspired by Tunisia, numerous groups have arranged for this protest in Egypt scheduled for the 25th of January, and they picked this date for a reason. The 25th of January is a National Holiday, “Police Day”.

Also, during the past week, 9 Egyptians have set themselves on fire, with one dying from his injuries.

Now people are dubbing the 25th of January as a "Revolution".

It is getting very serious now, and will be a show to watch.

Here is the facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115372325200575

As of now on the event, 84,441 are attending, 29,707 may be attending, and 955,127 are awaiting reply. These numbers are growing rapidly, literally dozens are joining every minute. I just refreshed it after 1 min, and 50 more people had joined. . And that’s only the Facebook numbers, I can’t imagine how many Non-Facebook users will participate.

Great article from NewsWeek, to understand what's going on:

Is Egypt Next?

Tunisia’s uprising last week invigorated frustrated activists around the region. A upcoming protest in Cairo could mark the beginning of another upheaval.

Khaled Said, a small businessman in the historic Egyptian city of Alexandria, was dragged from an Internet café by police and beaten to death in the street last summer. Said wasn’t known as a political type. But according to human-rights groups, the attack was retaliation for the decision to post a video of cops divvying up drugs from a bust on his personal blog.

The murder clearly struck a nerve. Egyptian activists have waged a longstanding campaign against police brutality and torture, mostly outside the mainstream, and many were surprised by how quickly the news spread among regular folk. “The thing is, he wasn’t really a threat,” says Sherif Mansour, a senior program officer who focuses on new media in Egypt for Freedom House, a watchdog group. “His death made the connection between advocacy and the everyday life of Egyptians. It made the point that everyone can be affected.”

Shortly after the murder, a Facebook page appeared under the name “We Are All Khaled Said.” Run by an obsessively anonymous administrator, it started with posts about Said’s case. But the page quickly spiraled into an all-out campaign against police brutality and rights abuses in Egypt—becoming a clearinghouse for information, posting often-graphic photo and video, and publishing the names of allegedly abusive cops. Mansour credits the page with turning police brutality into a popular debate. The group has organized demonstrations in honor of Said, and today its membership is approaching 380,000, which makes it the country’s largest and most active online human-rights activist group.

Now the group has set its sights on a much bigger cause—taking on authoritarian rule in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak has been in power nearly 30 years.

After protesters in Tunisia ousted their country’s autocratic president, “We Are All Khaled Said” shifted gears to an aggressive political tone. Within days, the page began sounding the call for a large-scale demonstration in Cairo on Tuesday, Jan. 25, with demands ranging from ending police brutality and raising the minimum wage to $180 a month to dissolving Parliament.

The page’s administrator, who insisted on speaking via Gmail chat and asked to be cited as “ElShaheeed,” tells NEWSWEEK that events in Tunisia have made people in Egypt take note. “It just provided all of us with hope that things can change,” he says.

As of Friday morning, nearly 69,000 people had signed up for the Jan. 25 protest on the “We Are All Khaled Said” Facebook page.

Traditional opposition groups have also started to join the call for protest on Tuesday. Mohamed ElBaradei, a key opposition figure who had warned of a “Tunisia-style explosion” in Egypt, stopped just short of backing the demonstration. On Thursday night, he finally offered tacit support, if only via Twitter: “Fully support call 4 peaceful demonstrations vs. repression,” he tweeted.

And so clues to how Tunisia’s revolution will affect the region’s other autocratic regimes might be found in Cairo in the coming week, especially since cyberactivists and traditional ones alike seem to be joining forces. Tuesday will be the first real test of whether the revolution is contagious.

Opposition to Mubarak has been brewing for some time, but only disjointedly. Protests have come and gone, and plans for large-scale demonstrations often fizzle. The Egyptian police state, meanwhile, can be brutally effective at crushing dissent. And in the aftermath of Tunisia, the government is paying close attention; it has unleashed a wave of positive propaganda and released political prisoners.

But following November’s especially contentious parliamentary elections—where the ruling party won an improbable 97 percent of the seats amid accusations of massive vote-rigging—the forces for change had already been agitating, notes Steven Cook, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations who left for Cairo last week. A smaller rally against police brutality had already been in the works for Jan. 25, a national holiday in honor of police. But the events in Tunisia could give these forces a substantial push. “Tunisia is not causing these things. But it’s certainly adding momentum to the pretty significant opposition that already exists,” Cook says.

Ahmed Salah, a veteran activist in Cairo, points out that the Tunisia revolution happened spontaneously, prompted by the self-immolation of an unemployed university graduate—not at the direction of a political movement or concerted protest push. Yet Salah says the recent spate of copycats across Egypt (there have been nine so far this week) show that agitation is in the air—and, crucially, they’ve been regular Egyptians, not activist types.
Activists are trying to capitalize by bringing news of the protest to regular Egyptians however they can, from passing out fliers on the street to word-of-mouth and text messages. Social media have been another tool—and a crucial one—both in coordinating among activists and in spreading the word, particularly since Egyptian media are so tightly controlled. “I don’t know how we could do without it under the current circumstances,” Salah says. “Before, it was so much more difficult to reach out.”

Despite all the buzz building up to the Jan. 25 protest, however, ElShaheeed is well aware of the difficulties in translating Internet clicks to support on the ground. To that end, he has been using the page to urge people to organize by traditional means as well, even posting links to fliers to be downloaded and distributed—last week activists distributed leaflets to people coming out of Friday prayers. But he says only Tuesday will tell whether these efforts have been enough.

“We’re hoping a lot of people turn up, and that people in the street see us, connect with our demands, and join us,” he says. And if the effort fails, “I’d learn from the lesson, move forward, and do something else.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/22/the-revolution-comes-to-egypt.html#




Now the event has some pretty interesting, and very strong pictures, check it out:

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"Our time is the 25th of January"


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"Egypt's Revolution, the 25th of January"


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"25th of January, the day of change"

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"25th of January, the people's revolution"


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Various messages saying: "Revolution, Freedom for Egypt etc"


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Now this is one of the most interesting one's IMO, its allegedly a message from an Army officer, with message on his Uniform. The message reads "Your time is near Egypt, 25th of January is our date"

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These pictures are spreading like wildfire, and are starting to appear as display pictures for all Egyptian users on Facebook, Twitter and the Blog sphere.


A blogpost from the famous Egyptian Chronicles blog:


24 hours before the 25th !!

It is 24 hours before January 25th and there is a lot of anticipation online and offline on what is going on that day.

First of all I am not sure whether officially the Muslim brotherhood is going to participate in the protest or not because there is talk that the brotherhood are allowed to participate individually !!?

Second it seems that surprisingly the Wafd party is going to participate in the protest or at least the youth of the Wafd party.

Now there is something I fear , the government is asking the shops to close on January 25 because of the riots that will place , this photo was taken by Ramy Raoof and I assume in Mohendessin as it is in English.

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I fear that the government wants the protest turns in to riots to justify the use of violence against the protesters. The NDP promised already to launch a counter protest , a pro-Mubarak protest where it will distribute thousands of pro-Mubarak shirts !!!!!!!!!! I do not have any doubt that the NDP supporters will be rented thugs.


Now more public personalities declare that they are going to participate in the day like author Alaa Al-Aswany , Balal Fadel , actor Khaled Abu Naga and actor Amr Waked who wrote a Facebook note to encourage the youth to protest on that day.

There is not unconfirmed news that the Egyptian Ultras of Al Ahly and Zamalak are going to participate in the protest, of course this will be a major development considering their number.

The Khaled Said group has published “What you need to know about the 25th” document in Arabic answering the questions of what , when , why , how …etc. Famous Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff cartoonist made a collection of cartoons in solidarity with Egyptians and the #Jan25.


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Newsweek wondered if the #Jan25 will make Egypt follow Tunisia

The wonderful Egyptian community in New York held a protest yesterday in front of the UN despite the cold weather , they will hold another one tomorrow insh Allah. Here is a photo album from Mona Eltahawy.

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Egyptians abroad are feeling for us as expected here photos from Texas, from Paris , from Italy , from Canada.

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Our Arab brothers in Tunisia are sending solidarity messages just like the rest of our Arab brothers who wish to see Egypt liberated from dictatorship.
More updates to come.

Photo source : We are all Khaled Said, Ramy Raoof and Mona El-Tahawy

Link to blog post: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/01/24-hours-before-25th.html

Follow the blog for more updates: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/



Very good article, must read:

Egypt's frustrated young wait for their lives to begin, and dream of revolution

In Cairo, as in places all over the country, all eyes are fixed on the drama that is unfolding in Tunisia. Jack Shenker travelled across Egypt and heard people increasingly asking: could it happen here, and if so, when?

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News of the latest act of self-immolation in Egypt reached Waleed Shamad while he was sitting in the bourse, a dense warren of outdoor shisha cafes tucked away in the back alleys surrounding Cairo's old stock exchange.

An unemployed man had set himself alight in the middle of a busy street – the 12th such incident last week. According to a TV newsreader, the man, 35, had moved to the capital in the hope of finding work and saving enough to buy a home and get married, but lack of job opportunities had driven him to despair. "That could be a description of any of us," said Waleed, pulling his scarf tighter against the cold. "These human blazes are coming so fast, it's hard to keep track."

Cairo is a city built for sunny days and balmy nights; come winter the wind can lash with a ferocious bite. But that has not stopped Shamad and his friends gathering for their late-evening tea on the pavement to talk through the day's gossip: the Friday sermons devoted to Islam's disapproval of suicide, new government restrictions on buying bottled petrol, and, of course, all the latest from Tunis – where developments have kept the group glued to al-Jazeera TV for days.

"We couldn't believe our eyes," grinned Shamad, recalling the sight of Tunisia's ousted despot, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, fleeing a land he had ruled for 23 years. "I'm so proud of the Tunisian people. When you see a friend or brother succeeding in some great struggle, it gives you hope, hope for yourself and hope for your country."

In common with two-thirds of Egypt's population, Shamad has lived his entire life under the presidency of Hosni Mubarak, a key western ally whose three-decade grip over one of the most pivotal states in the Arab world has looked marginally more shaky following the events in Tunisia.

At 27, Shamad – university-educated, getting by on scraps of informal work and still living at home with his parents – is part of a demographic bulge that accounts for 90% of the country's unemployed, and whose simmering frustration, according to some analysts, could tip Egypt towards its own intifada – and unknown consequences for the rest of the Middle East. "Not having a regular job affects every aspect of your life practically and psychologically; almost everybody I know of my age is still unmarried and dependent on their families – it makes you feel hopeless," he said.

Last year's UN human development report for Egypt said many of the nation's young people were trapped in "waithood", defined as a prolonged period "during which they simply wait for their lives to begin". "It's not as if we want to sit here passively and accept the situation," Shamad said. "But the instinct of our generation is to avoid the state, not confront it. I know that there are big demonstrations planned for next Tuesday, but we're taught from birth to be fearful of the police. They know how to hurt you, and hurt the ones you love."

Tuesday's demonstrations will take the form of a nationwide set of anti-Mubarak protests, dubbed "revolution day" by opposition activists who hope that Tunisia's uprising will embolden the vast number of individuals like Shamad and persuade them that the time is right to make their voices heard.

"In every neighbourhood in the country there is a pressure point which the government is afraid of and which will be brought to the surface on Tuesday," said Ahmed al-Gheity, 23, a doctor and one of the regional organisers of "revolution day". On the event's Facebook page, tens of thousands of supporters have posted comments suggesting Ben Ali's departure could be the precursor for Mubarak's downfall. "If Tunisia can do it, why can't we?" read one. "We will either start living or start dying on 25 January."

Weary of the formal political arena, where even superficial opposition parties now find themselves blocked off from legitimate avenues of dissent (last November's blatantly rigged parliamentary ballot delivered a 93% majority to supporters of the ruling NDP), urban young Egyptians are instead carving out their own spaces in which alternative voices can be heard. If all 75,000 of those who have made an online promise to attend turn up on Tuesday, it will represent an organisational triumph. But such an outcome appears unlikely.

"At the informal level – blogs, social media – there's been an explosion of political activity, entirely disconnected from the official mechanisms of government," said Amr Hamzawy, research director at the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut. Yet this dynamism has largely failed to spill on to the street, where Mubarak's ubiquitous security apparatus still maintains near-total control. The only sector of society that has succeeded in physically occupying areas controlled by the state is Egypt's beleaguered workforce, which has confronted the regime over a range of economic grievances and succeeded in extracting concessions.

"This is where the regime is most fearful," said Gamila Ismail, a dissident politician who unsuccessfully challenged the NDP in the recent elections. "They don't want the young, online activists with their political demands linking up and inspiring the labour force who are campaigning for a better standard of living. If youth in Cairo and Alexandria are connecting with Mahalla, then the government knows it is in trouble."

Sixty miles north of the capital, the textile town of El Mahalla el-Kubra has been the militant spearhead of an unprecedented wave of strikes and sit-ins sweeping Egypt over the last five years. In April 2008 a walkout by factory workers led to three people being shot dead by police.

The road to Mahalla passes through Cairo's urban hinterlands, which bleed messily into the Nile delta and surrounding desert – here the high walls of fast-proliferating gated communities for the rich look down on the redbrick clusters of ashwa'iyat, informal slum areas that are now home to 60% of the city's population. This is a clear window on to the hallmark of Mubarak's reign – a colossal appropriation of land and capital by the political and business elite.

Young residents of the private compounds live in a parallel universe from their slum counterparts, but both share a basic detachment from campaigns for political change of the sort planned for Tuesday. "Of course, we are all excited about Tunisia; the people there threw off their shackles and I pray we could do the same," said Mahmoud Abdel Halim, 29, a construction worker. "But I don't see how we could repeat Tunisia here. I haven't heard about any protests, and even if I had it's not like I can afford to stop work and go and get arrested."

Off Mahalla's main square, however, the picture was different. Last Friday a group of young people from across the delta was carefully preparing a series of Tunisian flags, pinning each to a short wooden pole. Others sketched out placards expressing Egypt's solidarity with Tunisia and condemning government corruption, police torture and poverty. When about 50 of them took to the streets in the late afternoon, handing out pamphlets advertising the protests on Tuesday, they were met with a bemused but generally positive response.

"I've never been on anything like this before, although my brother's friend was attacked by police back in April 2008," said one 26-year-old motorcyclist. "Circumstances have got pretty bad now, and I think changing the big sharks at the top is probably the only way we can make things better. I'll try and make it."

Back in their fifth-floor offices afterwards, the activists whooped and high-fived each other. "Yes, it was very small, but it showed that other young people are receptive to our energy," beamed Yasmeen Hamdy El-Fakharany. "I think 25 January will be a great success."

Not everyone agrees. Another 70 miles north-west, in a wood-panelled Alexandrian coffee shop facing the Mediterranean, Hossam al-Wakeel shook his head angrily at the suggestion that his own organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood, was betraying the anti-Mubarak movement by refusing to participate in Tuesday's "revolution day".

"Will those coming out on Tuesday bring down the regime? I think not," said al-Wakeel, 23, a journalist. "The Muslim Brotherhood believes that change must come from below, that we must rebuild society layer by layer as part of a gradual process, not chase revolution and impose new leaders from the top." Earnest, cardigan-clad and sporting a trim black beard, Wakeel explained why he had thrown in his lot with the only opposition movement that has the capacity to bring hundreds of thousands on to the streets – and yet persistently refuses to do so.

His vision of change in Egypt is far removed from that of the Tunisian-flag-waving activists in Mahalla. Yet both share a commitment to direct confrontation with the Mubarak regime, something which Cairo's Shamad – despite his deep anger – still considers too risky. Young inhabitants of the ashwa'iyat and their gated neighbours also feel severed from any process of political reform, although, if a spark were to set off a mass mobilisation in the streets, there can be little doubt many would quickly join in.

It seems doubtful that protests on Tuesday will provide that spark, although anything could transpire on the day. But when the spark does come, there can be no doubt the country's angry youth will be leading the way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/egypt-revolution-mubarak-protest



I want to give advice to everyone, the best place to follow this will not be on TV, but on Social Networks.

On Twitter:

Search for posts with this hash tag: #Jan25

And here are activists who will be tweeting info, Pics and Videos, live from the street, I strongly recommend you follow them:

http://twitter.com/#!/Gsquare86

http://twitter.com/#!/Zeinobia

http://twitter.com/#!/monaeltahawy

:cheers:

Two or one day(s) to go guys any final thoughts?

I'm not expecting much to be honest, yes this will be a massive, massive protest, one of the biggest ever. Yes, there will be violence. But we can't expect a revolution like Tunisia, you just can't plan those things on a certain date.

There needs to be a sudden spark to start a revolution, and right now, the regime is just going to let people vent out their anger. But whenever that spark comes, there's nothing stopping a revolution from happening in Egypt, like it did in Tunisia.

^^You are right, it is usually random assembly.. But I think if people protest hard enough, long enough, camp out and what not and really shut down egypt essentially then its beginnings won't matter - change should ensue regardless because the same pressure is there

25th is the day then :D, i don't know why but I am reeeeeeeeeeeeally excited, I will be contacting every Egyptian I know to see if their is something happening at the Egyptian embassy in Doha on that day.

cool let us know, I know that will be protests at the canadian and Tunisian embassy.

There will be one in Toronto for those of you who live there.

^^

I was willing to make the 2 hour trip to attend, but then I have an exam the next day :bash:

Not sure something will happen idk why. You can't plan a revolution. I don't know how to explain, you can't date a revolution. I think the result will be dissapointing to all egyptians.

excuses :blahblah:

excuses :blahblah:

But lets see what will happen, today MHM was throwing rocks on egyptians for what happened in the alexandrian church bombing. I admired him today.

I was referring to egypt69 about he can't go to toronto I'm just kidding with him :D

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Aren't we already discussing this here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1298345&page=10

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Pre-demo in New York City!

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But lets see what will happen, today MHM was throwing rocks on egyptians for what happened in the alexandrian church bombing. I admired him today.

Admired?

Are you being sarcastic walla serious. Ew3a tetla3 serious. :nuts::ohno:

This DISGUSTS me in every possible way.

Church Calls on Copts to Boycott Day of Rage

The Coptic Orthodox Church has called on all Copts to abstain from taking part in the scheduled protest on January 25, alleging that the Day of Rage is initiated by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi movements.

Father Abdel Massih called on the Copts to boycott the protest and to remain in their homes, adding that they should fast and pray for Egypt's safety, claiming that the MB and the Salafist member's planned protests will result in chaos, looting, rampages and riots, describing the demonstration as politically motivated.

In a statement, the Father called for reform in all economic matters and hoped solutions would be found.
In all reality the Muslim Brotherhood to date has not announced its stance concerning the planned demonstrations where a statement was issued by the group's media spokesman Dr. Essam el-Erian who asserted the group was still to announce its decision.


A bunch of nonesense. The Church should keep out of politics! Aren't they the same people calling for "equal rights"?? Isn't this what the protests are all about? EGYPTIAN Rights? Or is it solely "Copts" rights that they violently protest for??? They are Egyptian, and should take part. I know many Copts who will, and I hope the vast majority ignore this nonesense propaganda.

Admired?

Are you being sarcastic walla serious. Ew3a tetla3 serious. :nuts::ohno:



Why shouldn't i?

He said during his conference that either Muslims or Christians have nothing to say. As for the famous woman who called the government of USA to help the copts in Egypt for security negligence by Egyptian autorities then she should shut it. As for the radical muslims and people rejecting the help toward Copts, they need to shut it, we are a national unity cooperating with eachothers.

I never said i like MHM... But i said that i liked his speech yesterday. W law mo2akhza ya3ni... If something that you hate in my words, just say it because i don't know what i said earlier that shocked you...

This DISGUSTS me in every possible way.

Church Calls on Copts to Boycott Day of Rage




A bunch of nonesense. The Church should keep out of politics! Aren't they the same people calling for "equal rights"?? Isn't this what the protests are all about? EGYPTIAN Rights? Or is it solely "Copts" rights that they violently protest for??? They are Egyptian, and should take part. I know many Copts who will, and I hope the vast majority ignore this nonesense propaganda.



:).... In reality the church don't care what will happen in 25 but to show to the gvt that they're loyal to the President, they must boycott the 25 january protest or their image will be tarnished.

Egypt govt warns activists against Tuesday protest

CAIRO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Egyptian government warned activists hoping to emulate Tunisian pro-democracy protesters that they face arrest if they go ahead on Tuesday with mass demonstrations some have billed as the "Day of Wrath".

The rallies have been promoted online by groups saying they speak for young Egyptians frustrated by the kind of poverty and oppression which triggered the overthrow of Tunisia's president. Similar calls have been made in other authoritarian Arab states.

Coinciding with a national holiday in honour of the police, a key force in keeping President Hosni Mubarak in power for 30 years, the outcome in Egypt on Tuesday is seen as a test of whether vibrant Web activism can translate into street action.

"The security apparatus will deal firmly and decisively with any attempt to break the law," the government's director for security in the capital Cairo said in a statement.

Since Egypt bans demonstrations without prior permission, and as opposition groups say they have been denied such permits, that effectively means that any protesters may be detained.

Interior Minister Habib el-Adli has issued orders to "arrest any persons expressing their views illegally".

"Our protest on the 25th is the beginning of the end," wrote organisers of a Facebook group with 87,000 followers. "It is the end of silence, acquiescence and submission to what is happening in our country. It will be the start of a new page in Egypt's history -- one of activism and demanding our rights."


PROTESTS RARE

But protests in Egypt, the biggest Arab state and a keystone Western ally in the Middle East, tend to be poorly attended and are often quashed swiftly by the police, who prevent marching.

The banned Muslim Brotherhood, seen as having Egypt's biggest grassroots opposition network, has not called on members to take part but said some would join in a personal capacity.

Cairo security director Ismail Shaa'er said the government had sent warnings to protest organisers that they would need an interior ministry permit: "In the absence of such permits, these demonstrations and sit-ins will be dealt with in a legal manner and those beyond the law will be arrested," he said.

Activists and the opposition say the interior ministry refuses to issue protest permits, citing security reasons.

Sympathisers across the world have said they plan to protest in solidarity. In Kuwait, security forces detained three Egyptians on Monday for distributing flyers for the protests.

"On January 25th, Egyptian protesters will carry their cameras as their weapons," one Facebook user wrote, 10 days after Tunisians faced down their veteran leader's police state in a revolt flashed around the world in website images.

"They will use cameras to capture every policeman who will attack peaceful protesters and every scene of our protests to show it to the world." (Additional reporting by Dina Zayed in Cairo and Eman Goma in Kuwait; Writing by Marwa Awad; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE70N1GY20110124?pageNumber=3&virtualBrandChannel=0

thats it masri kill him and deliver his head to my inbox :yes:

GONE WITH MUBARAK! GONE WITH MUBARAK! GONE WITH MUBARAK! GONE WITH MUBARAK! w000t! hahaha ok.. well I'm quite angry and enthusiastic.. ><!

dude you just awaked the flame inside me I wanna go out and scream for some reason :mad: damn you :lol:

thats it masri kill him and deliver his head to my inbox :yes:

Simply more proof that authortarian regimes only care for their own safety and well-being; the police has no problem shooting at citizens and injuring hundreds. Numerous protests (in Egypt) have proven that, along with the Tunisian revolution.

^^ I have that feeling this whole day long! :lol:

EDIT:

I'm also quite scared... What if Mubarak's regime falls... Is there a big change that the Muslim Brotherhood will take over control?

This DISGUSTS me in every possible way.

Church Calls on Copts to Boycott Day of Rage




A bunch of nonesense. The Church should keep out of politics! Aren't they the same people calling for "equal rights"?? Isn't this what the protests are all about? EGYPTIAN Rights? Or is it solely "Copts" rights that they violently protest for??? They are Egyptian, and should take part. I know many Copts who will, and I hope the vast majority ignore this nonesense propaganda.

+1

The Coptic Church, just like Al Azhar, are tools and puppets of the Regime. Both should be disassociated in any way from the Egyptian government, and both should GTFO from Egyptian politics.

Simply more proof that authortarian regimes only care for their own safety and well-being; the police has no problem shooting at citizens and injuring hundreds. Numerous protests (in Egypt) have proven that, along with the Tunisian revolution.

True. Infact, I think the Regime will make it worse from themselves if they choose to use live ammunition tomorrow, that will be an even BIGGER reason for anger, and things will get worse.

If the Regime is smart, they should play it cool, and let them vent their anger out, and it will die down. Ofcourse, I hope this doesn't happen though, we want to terrorize the regime

^^ I have that feeling this whole day long! :lol:

EDIT:

I'm also quite scared... What if Mubarak's regime falls... Is there a big change that the Muslim Brotherhood will take over control?

No they will not, we've discussed there so much before, and as well as the things we've said before, the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood was too scared to take part, shows how uncomitted they are to the Egyptian people, and that all they want to do is gain power, and enforce their stone age laws on all of us.

Oh ok.. I didn't read the whole forum because it's quite hard for me to understand every political thing. Many difficult English words :lol:

:lol::lol:

if somehow this shakes Egypt and the regime runaway off there caves naked. I predict el baradie to take over and from then maybe El wafd party will take most the parliament seats until the next elections.

Thought el-baradie will have 12 years to prove himself no long than that.

^^ what? you think that the Tunisian riots deserved a thread in the Egyptian skyahwa and the Egyptian protest is worthless? we had two threads about this in the oasis yet you opened a new thread did anyone complain?

I think we should use this thread!

I have a feeling that nothing will happen and I'm going to feel sick for weeks as I don't want to put my hopes up as I did in the last elections. but I'm hoping something actually happen who knows maybe while I'm following this tomorrow if something happens I'll get excited!

Then why did you guys start discussing the 25th revolution there? All the info, articles and discussions are there. Choose, either I close this thread, and rename the other thread to Tunisia Revolution & Egypt's 25th of January Protests. Or I close that thread and we talk here only.

Well how about you leave both threads, we talk here about Egypt and there about Tunisia. when someone talks about Egypt there from now inform them and move there posts then warn them (I doubt if this going to happen, we'e angels :angel:)

I'm going to move all the recent posts from there to here.

Khalas, everything is good now. This thread is for the 25th of January protest, the other one is for Tunisia only.

way to go :D Good job :)

Okay guys, protests know about.

the one in Egypt obviously, there going to be other once outside Egypt

Tunisia and other Arab state (not sure maybe Saudi?)
New york I hear this going to be big they planned like 4-5 different locations for meet ups O_O
Toronto
Ottawa
Paris
London (OMG I WANNA GO!)
Berlin

not sure where else. but I can't go London sadly :( I hear Libyan friends of mine talk about a Libyan protest here in Manchester. also these day when ever I go place I find lots of Egyptians I went to Manchester university mosque to pray the other day and lots of Egyptians O_O on the bus there was an Egyptian lady talking on the phone so I hope something happen in Manchester too I'll certainly join :D let me know if there is any.

Khalas, everything is good now. This thread is for the 25th of January protest, the other one is for Tunisia only.

Great work! :)

After Tunisia: Egypt - A Call for Revolution

Egyptian youth are optimistic about Egypt’s future and ready for change following recent revolutionary events in Tunisia. As they organize and mobilize the anti-Mubarak government protests on Jan. 25 through social network and education of their rights, some believe the protests will be futile.

Social Media

After 29 days of protesting injustice, stagnation and corruption, Tunisia’s ruler of 23 years, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, fled the country on Jan. 14. Many believe that the social network world played a large part in the revolution and Tunisia’s revolt has been dubbed, as Iran’s once was, the “Twitter Revolution.” Tweets, posts on Facebook groups and pages, and YouTube videos are also playing a major role in this upcoming protest in Egypt.

The protest event page on Facebook has 84,667 people attending as of Jan. 23. The event claims that attendees will be protesting corruption, torture, poverty, and unemployment. While many who do not have Facebook or access to internet are also expected to join the protests, some believe that the number of people who show up will not be enough to spark a revolution for Egypt’s 80 million citizens.

Asmaa Mahfouz, 25, filmed a video and posted it on Facebook, encouraging all Egyptians to attend the protest, which she said received thousands of views and comments in just a few days.

“I want everyone to attend because we are 80 million; if only one million attend then we will not accomplish anything,” she said. “The government is depending on the negativity and silence of the people because [they think] silence is a sign of acceptance although this is not [always] true.”

Mahfouz, who works at a computer company, said that people are enthusiastic about this protest and she has received a plethora of messages supporting her call to action and activism especially amongst young people. Nine out of ten unemployed are under 30 and half of the population in Egypt is under 30 years old.

Egyptians must demand the dismissal of the corrupt regime, and change for Egypt must come from within, she said.

“That’s the only way. Otherwise the government will never change. We need to stop being afraid and stop being apathetic. We deserve better,” she said.

Tunisia vs. Egypt

President Hosni Mubarak, 82, has ruled Egypt for 29 years now. Although elections will take place in September, most expect his son, Gamal, to take control if Mubarak doesn’t seek reelection.

With all the rush of enthusiasm and energy from many young Egyptians over Jan. 25, some still believe that attending the protest will not lead to positive change.

Ali Ashraf*, an employee who works for the government in Cairo, believes there must be change in the Egyptian system but the upcoming protest on Jan. 25, which happens to be an Egyptian national holiday, Police Day, that celebrates the service of police officers, may be ineffective, he says.

“For protests to be successful, they must be in a working day, because in days off people normally tend to stay home and want to enjoy the exceptional break,” Ashraf, 28, said. “Let's not forget that those who [were] invited to protest in Jan. 25 want to resemble what happened in Tunisia this month, so it is impossible to gather large number of people in a day off.”

Linking the events that lead to the Tunisia uprising to the protest in Egypt is incomparable, he said.

“In Tunisia, the revolution was not planned and no one [was] invited to it, it just came like that, which abated the ability of the security forces in dealing with the matter,” Ashraf said. “But, when the security forces know the date of the protest, which is intended to turn into a revolution, before its time by 10 days for sure they will be well prepared for it-- actually much more prepared than the protesters themselves.”

Another difference he believes between the Tunisian and potential Egyptian uprising is education. He believes the Tunisians educated themselves well beforehand and were well aware of their full rights.

“I highly respect what happened in Tunisia. It shows how much the people there are aware,” Ashraf said. “[Tunisians] are a group of people who learned and got themselves educated; they decided all together to fight for their rights and not to give up until they get it all. They knew pretty well that their dignity comes before their bread, and that their bread is related directly to their country’s policies. When our people follow such footsteps we will get the change we want. I am really frustrated from the many suicide cases by fire in Egypt since the Tunisian revolution.”

At least nine Egyptians have set themselves on fire from frustration of the government, following the suicide of Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, from Tunisia. It is believed Bouazizi’s self-immolation triggered the Tunisian uprising. Seven Algerians have also committed suicide for the same reason.

Revolution is achievable in Egypt, Ashraf said, but education and voting registration are crucial at this stage.

“Non-educated ones here are not just the illiterate people -- they are much more. They are every single person who doesn’t know his right or even call for his right. Protests and revolution will come later on as a result of this process.

“We need to register to vote as much as we can, and we need much more people to participate in elections. There is no doubt that the peaceful change is much better than the non-peaceful one,” he said. “Yeah, it will be hard to change through elections, but who said that change is easy anyway?”

Egyptians Abroad

Frustration with the Egyptian dictatorship regime is not only expressed by Egyptians who are living in Egypt. Egyptians living abroad are aggravated and also support protesting as a way of expression.

Nancy El-Gindy, an Egyptian living in Canada, believes protests are effective, even if it’s the minority.

“Historically protesting and causing instability within a country in general has made a difference, including in authoritarian countries,” El-Gindy, the 27-year-old historian, said. “They may take a while longer, but as long as the people continue to put serious pressure on the government and attract international attention, it is possible. This sort of thing needs real dedication to the cause and continued pressure - the smallest of changes will definitely not happen by saying that protesting won't work and instead staying at home.”

El-Gindy believes both education and protests are crucial in such situations.

They do go hand in hand, but some rights are innately understood, such as basic shelter and food. I think people already understand that there's widespread injustice, and that many of their rights are not met by the government. [Protests are] the only thing people that are totally oppressed can do, as long as it's peaceful.

Voices heard through protests

Other Egyptian youth believe that although attending protests will have minimal effect, voicing their concern via major protests can be pertinent and serve as a crucial precedent to the next major step for change.

22-year-old Egyptian English instructor, Haggar Haggag, has attended protests in Egypt before but witnessed no change afterwards.

“The problem is people don't see any effect for what they do, nothing changed, and more people die every day and nothing they do can change the Minister of Interior or make the police respect our rights. It's like nothing you can do will make a difference,” she said. “So they'd rather stay safe at home.”

“We should show up at the protests to express ourselves and to let the government and everyone know that we are well aware of our rights and we are not giving up. If protests don't work, everyone should do their best at what they do and start giving hope to others that tomorrow can be better if they started speaking up,” she said. “The greater the number of people who believe in a better Egypt, the stronger we are.”

Enough is enough

Attending protests, voicing concerns via social media, and educating others about the corruption and injustice in Egypt are all different ways of opposing the government. Although not all will take to the streets on Jan. 25, the majority of Egyptians generally agree on one thing.

Ahmed Azab, a 23 year old Egyptian who works in a contracting and trading company, shares the uniting view of Egyptians of all social classes, age and religion.

“Where’s the democracy? Why is Mubarak staying all of these years? And the most important thing is where is our human rights? … Mubarak is a great man and he did many things for us, but now he reached a level where he can’t do any correct and useful decisions for the Egyptians.”

Mahfouz still believes the protest will have a positive outcome and reiterates the importance of a large mass of attendance and advises the protesters who are attending to stand their grounds and be peaceful, and to arm themselves with their camera phones.

“We have to stay united and be hand-in-hand so that we become one united block. And the chants should be organized,” Mahfouz said. “If police officers try to obstruct anyone from joining the protests, then don’t leave – stay in your place, sit on the ground, and put your hand on your head as a way to show you are not going home and you are peaceful.”

http://www.illumemag.com/zine/articleDetail.php?Egyptian-Youth-Inspired-by-Tunisian-Revolution-Hope-to--Follow-Suit-13452

Okay guys, protests know about.

the one in Egypt obviously, there going to be other once outside Egypt

Tunisia and other Arab state (not sure maybe Saudi?)
New york I hear this going to be big they planned like 4-5 different locations for meet ups O_O
Toronto
Ottawa
Paris
London (OMG I WANNA GO!)
Berlin

not sure where else. but I can't go London sadly :( I hear Libyan friends of mine talk about a Libyan protest here in Manchester. also these day when ever I go place I find lots of Egyptians I went to Manchester university mosque to pray the other day and lots of Egyptians O_O on the bus there was an Egyptian lady talking on the phone so I hope something happen in Manchester too I'll certainly join :D let me know if there is any.

It should be noted that there is a change in location & time of #Toronto's protest: it will be conducted from 9:00AM to 12:00PM at Dundas Square.


Also, El Baradei addresses the Egyptian Police:

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^^ Good :okay:

It's 12:30 now in Cairo. 13 hours and half left.

Egyptian Lawyers are going to help whom going to end up in jail tomorrow :banana:

Information about the protest tomorrow.

http://bit.ly/Egypt25

what do you guys think about what they going to yell tomorrow?

تحيا مصر .. تحيا مصر
عيش .. حرية .. كرامة إنسانية
حرية .. حرية .. حرية .. حرية
يا حرية فينك فينك .. الطوارئ بيننا وبينك
مش هنخاف مش هنطاطي .. إحنا كرهنا الصوت الواطي
شعب تونس يا حبيب .. شمس الثورة مش هتغيب
بالروح بالدم .. نفديك يا وطن
ارفع صوتك قول للناس .. احنا كرهنا الظلم خلاص
واحد اتنين .. احنا المصريين
صحي الخلق وهز الكون .. مصر بلدنا مش هتهون
لما شعب تونس قام .. هرب اللص والمدام
حد أدنى للأجور .. قبل الشعب ما كله يثور
حقي ألاقي شغل وأعيش .. والملاليم ما بتكفيش
يلا يا مصري صحي الروح .. الحرية باب مفتوح
يللا يا شعب عدّي الخوف .. خلي الدنيا تصحى تشوف
شعب حضارة ومجد سنين .. مش هيطاطي ليوم الدين

I made an english translation (kinda crap) let me know if you want me to post it here.

"6 إبريل" تدرب النشطاء على استخدام الدروع الواقية

عقدت حركة شباب 6 إبريل مساء أمس ورشة تدريبية لتقديم الإرشادات القانونية وكيفية التحرك الميدانى لأكثر من 50 ناشطاً استعداداً ليوم الغضب غدا الثلاثاء 25 يناير.

أكد الناشط محمد عادل أن الحركة قامت بتدريب النشطاء على تقنية "الدروع الواقية" التى تستخدمها لأول مرة فى المظاهرات للحماية من اعتداءات الأمن وليس لاستخدامها كوسيلة للضرب، بحيث يتكون الدرع من شقين الأول منهما خاص بحماية الصدر وهو عبارة عن ورق مقوى يلصق حول الجسم بالمواد اللاصقة سهلة الالتفاف أما الجزء الثانى فيتعلق بحماية الكوعين ويتكون من زجاجتين بلاستيك تتعلق بالقرب من الكوعين.

وأضاف عادل أن هذه الوسيلة بجانب إعداد الحركة لما يقرب من 20 درع بلاستيك لحماية متظاهرى الصف الأول، كما تستعد للفاعلية بشنطة إسعافات أولية لإسعاف المتظاهرين.

ولم تخلو إرشادات الورشة من الجانب القانونى حيث قدم كلا من الحقوقيين مالك عدلى وسيد فتحى بعض النصائح، بدأت بالتأكيد على أن التظاهر السلمى حق يكفله الدستور والقانون، بجانب حق المتظاهر إذا اعترضته الجهات الأمنية فى الشارع أن يطلع على هوية من يلقى القبض عليه، أما إذا كان داخل المظاهرة وقبض على عدد ما من المتظاهرين فعليهم التوحد معا واختيار متحدث باسمهم منعا لتشتت الآراء، موضحين أنه لا يجب أن يتجاوز وقت الاحتجاز الـ 24 ساعة دون العرض على النيابة ويكون احتجازا دون وجه حق.

قال مالك عدلى فى ورقة قانونية له، إن إلقاء القبض على الناشط قد يكون غرضه إما احتجازه لبعض الوقت ثم إخلاء سبيله أو بغرض تحرير محضر وإحالته للنيابة، فوجب مراعاة عده أمور على حد قولة، وإنه فى حالة وقوع اعتداء لفظى أو بدنى يجب التركيز فى واقعة الاعتداء بكامل تفاصيلها.

وأضاف عدلى، أنه إذا كانت المحتجزة أنثى فلا يجوز تفتيشها إلا بمعرفة أنثى مضيفا أنه ليس من حق أحد تقييد الملقى القبض عليه من الخلف أو تعصيب العينين وفى حالة حدوث ذلك فإن تلك تعد جريمة يعاقب عليها ويجب إثباتها أمام النيابة.

وعن التحرك الميدانى وكيفية التعامل داخل المظاهرة نصح الناشط الحقوقى خالد عبد الحميد النشطاء بعدم الدخول فى مناقشات مع الأمن حول حق التظاهر، لافتا إلى أن التظاهر حق يكفله القانون والدستور، وعمل الضابط فى المقابل منع المظاهرة لذا فإن الحوار حول تلك النقطة لن يجدى على حد قوله.

أما النصيحة الثانية التى تقدم بها للحفاظ على الهدوء والترتيب داخل المظاهرة وعدم الاحتكاك بالأمن قائلا: "ليس من واجبى ضرب الأمن إنما التظاهر"، وكذلك كانت هناك فقرة لتعليم النشطاء كيفية استخدام الشبكات الاجتماعية كالفيس بوك والتويتر لرصد كافة فعاليات اليوم ونقلها مباشرة للقراء فى كافة الأماكن.

http://www.youm7.com//News.asp?NewsID=342981

Sad that we have to use this way to gain our freedom :cry:

but TBH I couldn't hold myself at the beginning

التى تستخدمها لأول مرة فى المظاهرات للحماية من اعتداءات الأمن

:rofl:

For the what? First time? :lol::lol:

الشرطة تحاصر مقر«التجمع» بالعريش لمنع حضور مؤتمر يدعو لـ«مظاهرة 25 يناير»

فرضت قوات الأمن حصاراً أمنياً مشدداً على مقر حزب التجمع بمدينة العريش، كما قام أفراد الشرطة بمنع المواطنين من حضور المؤتمر الذى دعا إليه الحزب بمقره استعداداً للوقفة الاحتجاجية الثلاثاء.

كانت سيارات الشرطة وعدد كبير من أفراد الأمن بقيادة اللواء محمد نجيب، مدير أمن شمال سيناء، وعدد من قيادات الشرطة قد انتشروا فى محيط مقر الحزب.

من جانبه قال أشرف الحفني، منسق حزب التجمع «فوجئنا بقيادات الأمن تقوم بإرهاب المواطنين ومنعهم من حضور مؤتمر الحزب، كما كان العنف سمة التعامل مع كل من يقترب من المكان، ولكن ذلك لم يمنعنا من عقد المؤتمر الذى سنعلن فيه مشاركتنا فى وقفة الغضب ولن نوقف إجراءاتنا التصعيدية أمام هذه الممارسات غير المسؤولة من قبل الأمن».

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B1%C2%AB%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%C2%BB-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4-%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B9-%D8%AD%D8%B6%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1-%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%88-%D9%84%D9%80%C2%AB%D9%85%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9-25-%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%C2%BB

^^ It's on, but doesn't sound good to me. very sad. they didn't even began get and they were shocked by the police! this isn't good not good at all!

It's 3:40 am in Cairo right now, and Egyptians are soon going to wake up to a big day.


For a minute by minute coverage of the events that are about to take place, follow: http://twitter.com/#!/AlShaheeed


From EgyptianChronicles Blog:

The 25th Big Day

Here today is the 25th of January , the Police national day , after couple of hours supposedly insh Allah there will be huge protests across the country demanding specific political and social demands.

The news talk shows last night could not ignore the day and it showed nothing except that the regime is freaked out

The protests have not started but I will say that the day is successful “Insh Allah” because it showed how much the regime is scared from the people , the regime freaked out after knowing that thousands accepted the protest invitation online not even offline. Thanks to our Tunisian brothers our regime began to fear us more and more.

That scared regime is actually a weak one that has no confidence in itself , sooner or later it will fail.

Now it is 1:16 AM Cairo local time and there are rumors circulating the internet in a silly way.

More updates to come insh Allah to this post through out the day.

Before I forget please remember the real heroes of the Ismailia Police Force that stood with the people against the British occupation in the canal zone.

http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/01/25th-big-day.html


Article from the TIMES:

Is Egypt About to Have a Facebook Revolution?

The Middle East is walking into an anxious week after a busy weekend, one that saw authoritarian regimes from Algeria to Yemen experience the ripple effect of the fall of Tunisia's President, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Large antigovernment demonstrations broke out in Jordan, Yemen and Algeria, while more men — particularly in Egypt and Algeria — have joined the ranks of self-immolators inspired by Mohammed Bouazizi, the Tunisian whose suicide sparked that country's revolution. "What is very important about what happened in Tunisia, regardless of whether it spreads, is that it certainly raised a lot of hope among Egyptians and among other Arab people in different countries," explains Hassan Nafaa, a political-science professor at Cairo University and a vocal critic of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
(See the story of Mohammed Bouazizi, the man who set himself and Tunisia on fire.)

Beyond the wave of protests, that hope has found a voice in independent newspapers across the region and in new, audacious political demands made by opposition groups. In Jordan and Yemen, analysts say, verbal attacks by opposition groups show an unprecedented confidence and ferocity, including calls by Jordanian opposition members to have an elected Prime Minister and turn King Abdullah of Jordan's nominally constitutional monarchy into a real one.

(See why, even after Tunisia, Egypt may not be ready for its own revolution.)
On Facebook, more than 85,000 people have pledged to attend a nationwide antigovernment protest planned for Tuesday, Jan. 25, in Egypt. It's an effort that has so far been facilitated almost entirely online, and if even half that many people show up, it will be a historic day for Egyptian political activism under the Mubarak regime. The "Revolution Day" Facebook page presents a list of demands for Mubarak's nearly 30-year-old administration, ranging from raising the minimum wage to limiting presidential terms. "There are definitely interesting things that are happening. [Tunisia] has injected new energy in terms of the demands being articulated by opposition movements in the Middle East," says Kent State political scientist Joshua Stacher. But, Stacher clarifies, voicing a demand is different from seeing that demand realized.
(See how protests are shaking Yemen's leadership base.)

The Egyptian regime, to its credit, seems to be aware of that distinction — or at least the necessity of maintaining the status quo while allowing for a bit of steam to be blown off. Local media reported over the weekend that business owners had been told to keep their doors shut on Tuesday, and some members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood say they received warnings from state security against participating in the protests. Meanwhile, some of the organizing activists worry that their technique has been flawed from the start. "The first thing was fixing the dates and places," says 20-year-old activist Khaled Kamel of the main Facebook site, which lists four specific Cairo locations for the protest. "Because of that, security is going to be prepared."

As for social-network mobilization, observers say that Facebook is easier than word of mouth or cell-phone use for the government to monitor. Some say the strategy also makes events actually more of a free-for-all and less tactical as an instrument of dissent. "What we've seen time and time again is that this organizing on the Internet actually leads to more fragmentation," says Stacher. The government "will mobilize a great number of security forces," predicts Nafaa. "Security forces are very concentrated in a city like Cairo. It's easy for them to intercept the demonstrators."

Other analysts say that at least the region's governments seem worried — and that's a start. "The authorities were scared," says Nafaa; he adds that this has been reflected in the press and will be reflected in the streets tomorrow: "Not only did the official media emphasize [the bad side of] what's going on in Tunisia, but the government also tried to prevent any writing about similarities between the Tunisians and the Egyptian regime."

Egypt isn't the only regime that has sought to publicly distance its predicament from that of ill-fated President Ben Ali. "Yemen is not Tunisia," Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said at an annual military-security conference, according to the Yemen Observer, after a weekend that saw sometimes violent protests. He added, "I would ask for pardon from the people if I made mistakes or I fell short of my duties. Only God is perfect."

For Egypt, so far, the impact of Tunisia has been less tangible but still troubling to officials. The Egyptian stock market fell 8% last week, owing to investor fears of instability, the Minister of Trade and Commerce said Sunday. And local independent media reported that a government-backed group had started printing pro-Mubarak posters and T-shirts to counter Tuesday's protest.

The state news wire said over the weekend that the recent spate of suicides — many by self-immolation like Tunisia's Bouazizi — were due to personal problems, not the perpetrators' unemployment woes. And state newspapers were flooded with stories about the upcoming celebration of Egypt's police forces, a holiday that the Tuesday protest coincides with.

In a Sunday op-ed in Al-Ahram Weekly, Abdel Moneim Said, the state-appointed president of the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, attributed the regional fallout from Tunisia to little more than "media sensationalism" and "groupthink" by Western think tanks obsessing over the "impending eruption of suppressed popular fury." But if all 85,000 Facebook attendees of tomorrow's "Revolution Day" actually show up, Said might have his theory put to the test.


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2044142,00.html#ixzz1C0UtJyLD

Guys I can't sleep!! I can't get my mind of tomorrow... I'm very angry and nervous. I've had a very good conversation with my father about how it is now in Egypt. My father called my family today. They are so angry etc. The food prices there are not acceptable! Nice good food is for the rich ones now! I'm so.. ARGH! yes angry!

Guys I can't sleep!! I can't get my mind of tomorrow... I'm very angry and nervous. I've had a very good conversation with my father about how it is now in Egypt. My father called my family today. They are so angry etc. The food prices there are not acceptable! Nice good food is for the rich ones now! I'm so.. ARGH! yes angry!

You're not the only one and i feel sad that i won't be in Egypt to support :(

Me too.. It's like I feel a bit ashamed for myself. I'm sitting here as a 18 year old boy at my comfortable bedroom with Wi-Fi, TV etc.. But i know many of my follow Egyptian brothers & sisters are in crisis in Egypt :( God bless them!

Me too.. It's like I feel a bit ashamed for myself. I'm sitting here as a 18 year old boy at my comfortable bedroom with Wi-Fi, TV etc.. But i know many of my follow Egyptian brothers & sisters are in crisis in Egypt :( God bless them!

Ya rab.

Let us hope for the best to happen. :)

Security forces will arrest anyone who participates in the 25 January protests planned by Egypt's opposition movements in accordance with instructions given by Interior Minister Habib al-Adli, said Director of Security, Major General Ismail al-Shair, on Monday. The protests will coincide with Police Day.

Al-Shair warned that the Interior Ministry will deal with the protesters in a “firm and decisive” manner.

“Anyone attempting to express his opinion in an illegal or unlawful manner will be arrested,” he said.

He pointed out that political movements planning on joining the Tuesday protests, in what has been dubbed “The Day of Anger,” have been warned that they need to obtain permission from the Ministry before holding any protests.

He went on to say that if they fail to obtain said permission then “these protests and sit-ins will be dealt with in accordance to the law and anyone who commits an illegal or unlawful action will be arrested.”

Over 80,000 Egyptian users of the online networking site Facebook have confirmed they will be attending the nation-wide protests.

The event is associated in the minds of many with the Tunisian revolution that toppled an authoritarian regime.

Protest organizers in Egypt are demanding the dismissal of the Minister of Interior, who is being held responsible for human rights violations, including torture. The conduct of the police has been increasingly questioned since the Alexandria church bombing that claimed the lives of more than 20 people on New Year's Eve.

Egyptian activists have three additional demands: the restoration of a fair minimum wage, the end of the Emergency Law, and the limitation of the presidency to two terms.

Although administrative courts issued two rulings in 2010 in favor of a new minimum wage, judicial authorities have failed to specify what the wage should be.

And although political activism has been increasing in Egypt since 2005, activists and experts say the Tunisian uprising has given Egyptians hope and courage to move from talk to action, which some predict will start on 25 January. Some believe that Tunisia's uprising will change the face of political activism in Egypt.

With the Tunisian revolution in mind, many wonder what will happen on Tuesday and whether the protest will trigger massive change.

Source (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/304738)


كثفت قوات الأمن من تواجدها في مدينة المحلة الكبرى، وفرضت كردونات أمنية على جميع مداخل المدينة، تخوفا من حدوث احتجاجات عمالية يوم 25 يناير بعد أن وزعت القوى السياسية بيانات في المدينة تدعو فيها الأهالي للتظاهر والاعتصام يوم الثلاثاء، للمطالبة برفع الحد الأدنى للأجور، وإلغاء قانون الطوارئ.

وانتشرت دعوات التظاهر والاحتجاج في مظاهرات 25 يناير على جدران البنايات والمحال التجارية، كما وزع نشطاء منشورات تهاجم سياسات الحزب الوطني وتنتقد الرئيس مبارك وتصف سياساته بـ«الفاشلة». وانتشرت الكتابات الاحتجاجية بمنطقة مستشفى المحلة، فيما قامت قوات الشرطة بطمسها. وتناقل الأهالي رسائل قصيرة على الهواتف المحمولة تدعو للمشاركة في مظاهرات الثلاثاء.

Source (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/ar/node/304957)

http://media.almasryalyoum.me/sites/default/files/imagecache/highslide_zoom/photo/2011/01/21/10949/_z___e_e____a_s_a___d_______e__14.jpg

http://media.almasryalyoum.me/sites/default/files/imagecache/highslide_zoom/photo/2011/01/22/229/tswyr_mhmd_lsyd.jpg


Only time would tell us the truth. What do you think ??

It's on guys :banana:

Qena

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg612/scaled.php?tn=0&server=612&filename=6o0vc.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Live Feed by Al-Ahram.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/4773.aspx

Live Cameras from here

http://bambuser.com/channel/waelabbas/broadcast/1354935

Really Horrible guys, Police breakout into mosques why people praying in Alexandria O_O

medan el ta7rer 12:30

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs259.snc6/180731_183516408346231_183109598386912_501023_3709680_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1385.snc4/163721_183516605012878_183109598386912_501026_2137248_n.jpg

what I love about those pics and videos is that they show the good parts of Egypt :lol:

1:12 PM Ahram Online reporter witnesses a march by at least 2000 protesters heading from 26 July street to Galaa street in downtown Cairo.

More Live Cam.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/content/%D8%A8%D8%AB-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%89-%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AB-%C2%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B6%D8%A8%C2%BB

Good luck Egypt! - a great country with great people which deserves better!

I just dream of an Egypt in which people will be able to hope and dream about the future :)

Amen!

http://media.almasryalyoum.me/sites/default/files/imagecache/highslide_zoom/photo/2010/05/15/229/_tah0360.jpg

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg620/scaled.php?tn=0&server=620&filename=wh9ep.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

10mins to go.

Live from teh street, if anyone want to follow :)

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/content/%D8%A8%D8%AB-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AB-%C2%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B6%D8%A8%C2%BB

People give out flowers to the police :rofl:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg610/scaled.php?tn=0&server=610&filename=i00ph.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Al Jazeera has reported thousands protesting in downtown Cairo. The reporter said she has never seen anything like this in over 30 years in Egypt (the Anti-Sadat protests of the late 70's).

Its working !!!! :banana: Screw Aljazeera TV !! i expected them to have everything ready for today :ohno: i am switching between the 3 channels (Arabic, Live, English) and none have any news :( only that small 1 min video on the English channel.

O_O OMG people reporting that the number on the streets exceeded 3 times the numbers of the police and they're overtaking the police O_O

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg616/scaled.php?tn=0&server=616&filename=v7yy.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

All Arabic channels are only reporting Lebanon nothing about Egypt!

Al Jazeera mubasher is reporting a recorded video not live, and Famous Egyptians figures protesting, actors, singers and others :banana:

they're blocking website O_O are they stupid? people will go down the street for live feed if they block the website :lol::lol:

100 Thousand protestors. We should be proud of this. :)

http://yfrog.com/gzs2skj


You can see Amr Waked in this photo :)

To follow live the egyptian protest here's someone broadcasting Cairo via his mobile

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/righter#utm_campaign=unknown


''Enzel Enzel Enzel''

Protesters screaming.



Update:Police started to attack protesters in my followed link.

Protestors have reached Tahrir Square.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/230578074.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1295964855&Signature=Qqkbgk%2BLyafMRlzxWJjvCs3uoWU%3D

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/230569290.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1295964895&Signature=HBE0WmYRVeUakhjEtuSFX42jdMM%3D

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/230564856.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1295964908&Signature=LuNYVi1EMMg2l3VUnp4C1r8prqc%3D

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/230557051.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1295964938&Signature=Kducz%2BuH7FmgO8KfYZtxE6XIt7g%3D

Something to be proud of!

GcLmi0ZdEpc

BBC Reporter now says situation is changed for protesters and the turn out is definitely unprecedented #Jan25 Don't stop #Egypt via twitter!

reports that TEDATA, 1 of 2 biggest internet providers in #egypt, blocked twitter #jan25

Egypt twitter blocked by telecom and many other internet providers such as the 2 biggest one


huge crowd in Cairo!
http://yfrog.com/hsffxrj

Ya gama3a ento nemto wala eh...

nope still here
LATEST UPDATES: 4:55 PM Clashes continue around the parliament, says Ahram Online reporter.

5:06 PM Violence has stopped for now, according to Ahram Online reporter in Tahrir Square. In Alexandria, protesters have exceeded 20,000 today.

5:18 PM A new round of arrests by the police in the parliament area in downtown Cairo. Protesters are throwing rocks.

5:25 PM Several protesters have been injured in the Tahrir clashes, as protesters try to storm the parliament.

Apparently G. Mubarak has left the country, atleast that's what my friends told me. They said he and his family flew to London.

مصر, انت امل الامة

Too many rumours flying around, nothing to confirm.

Protests @ Tahrir square in Downtown is growing by the second. Twitter is down, thanks to the help of internet and cellphone service companies. They disgust me.

Over 50,000 protesting at Al Raml Station in Alexandria....no news being reported on Al Jazeera, nor Al Arabiya or BBC Arabic. Its obvious they have struct some kind of deal with the regime (especially Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya).

Well Aljazeera Mubasher has been showing recorded footage for a while now. not to mention Aljazeera Arabic & Eanglish channels just giving "news" about it but not as wide spread as the Lebanon coverage.

Guys i have tears in my eyes wathching what is happening to egypt, it gives me hope returning back to my homeland.

Huuuuge protest! :D I'm proud! It's also big news in Holland on TV and news on the internet!

http://media.nu.nl/m/m1fzvvdakeid_700.jpg

http://media.nu.nl/m/m1fzvvdaflih_700.jpg

http://media.nu.nl/m/m1fzvvdagnik_700.jpg

http://media.nu.nl/m/m1fzvvdaetiq_700.jpg

Well Aljazeera Mubasher has been showing recorded footage for a while now. not to mention Aljazeera Arabic & Eanglish channels just giving "news" about it but not as wide spread as the Lebanon coverage.

Well its weird, cause Al Jazeera has been known to be quite Anti-Egypt (Egyptian regime), and now when something this big takes place: no coverage!

Anyways, I hope the protests continue to grow in numbers.

^^ According to the Dutch news they say 15.000 Egyptians are on the streets protesting but I think it's waaay more!

Online Live Coverage

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown

Just imagine what will happen if the police decides to protest. I'm so happy right now, lets just hope that all this fighting will bring result.

The ugly side of our police started.

Alshaheeed Khaled Said
Police in Alexandria Egypt open fire on protesters. Live ammunition. Our correspondant has been hit with a bullet in his head. #Jan25 #Egypt

About 50 000 protesters in Alexandria and numbers are growing more.

Lol, my aunt said that there were around 300 protestors only, in Alexandria, I was really disappointed.

Lol, my aunt said that there were around 300 protestors only, in Alexandria, I was really disappointed.

Where in Alexandria exactly? There are many protests taking place there.

Wow, I'm just overwhelmed by what's happening. I was in class following it on Twitter, then the damn teacher confiscared my phone. So now I ditched class, and went to the computer lab to follow, this is incredible!


Police are now using rubber bullets against protesters, a correspondant has been shot in the head!

Also from what I understood from my limited time so far:


At least 50,000 people stormed downtown Cairo, breaking through police cordons, and surrounding the police for the first tim in Egyptian History.

Similar numbers gathered in Alexandira, and hundreds and thousands gathered in Sinai, Suez, and Upper Egypt.

Twitter has been blocked in Egypt!

All Egyptian news outlets have been banned from reporting. And why is CNN, BBC etc coming in so late. THE WORLD IS TURNING A BLIND EYE TO THIS! :bash:

Protesters have now decided an overnight sitin in Tahrir Square, Central Cairo. Tahrir square is now revolution HQ!


The crowds continue to grow, this is the largest show of force by the population in Decades!

Live stream from Downtown Cairo where a protest is taking place NOW:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown

Protesters in Mahalla ripping down Mubarak poster:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/230612406.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId

Downtown Cairo:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs025.snc6/165568_103855463024905_103622369714881_22781_2122504_n.jpg


Thousands protest against President Hosni Mubarak - video, with subtitiles:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cairodowntown

for live updates...

Azmat.... It is now 50 000 Alexandrian in the street.

Where in Alexandria exactly? There are many protests taking place there.

Raml Station, lol XD

Guys i can't believe what i said yesterday that nothing will happen
I'm stupid :D

A reporter shot in the head by police in #Alexandria #Jan25. Police open fire on protesters,will this agitate them? #ArabPro ...

Egyptian autorities have send 10 000 undercover agent in the crowd. Be aware!

Protests in Egypt and unrest in Middle East – live updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWr6MypZ-JU

http://i.imgur.com/LfLhN.png

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDl617W3oNk

Protests in Egypt and unrest in Middle East – live updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia

^^ Everyone open and follow that link! Great infornation on it!


Cairo a 'war zone' as demonstrators demand president quit

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/1/25/1295972144414/Egyptians-protest-in-cent-008.jpg

4.07pm: Jack Shenker has just sent me this dramatic update from Egypt. He calls central Cairo a "war zone".

Downtown Cairo is a war zone tonight – as reports come in of massive occupations by protesters in towns across Egypt, the centre of the capital is awash with running street battles. Along with hundreds of others I've just been teargassed outside the parliament building, where some youths were smashing up the pavement to obtain rocks to throw at police.

We've withdrawn back to the main square now were thousands more demonstrators are waiting and a huge billboard advertising the ruling NDP party has just been torn down. Security forces are continuing to use sound bombs and teargas to disperse the crowd, but so far to no avail.


4.03pm: On Al-Jazeera, correspondent Rawya Rageh in Cairo is saying there is "clear anger and frustration being let out" on the streets of Egypt. This has been building up in Egypt for years, she says. Previous calls for protests have yielded "meagre results" – today's demonstrations are "unprecedented" for this "highly apathetic populace". Rageh adds: "Economic hardships have reached a choking limit for Egyptians."


3.57pm: Some interesting tweets from Saud AlSubaie (saudkw):

Armed forces in #Egypt have abandoned shock-sticks for more potent weapons, crowds are massing. Pictures of leader burned. #jan25

Pictures of Husni Mubarak have been torn down in public. 100+ arrested. 3 Major news channels prevented from covering #Egypt #jan25

@KanchanGupta things getting serious over there. Twitter blocked, data services on phones getting cut off sporadically. Tear gas, arrests.

3.40pm: Jack Shenker has checked in from Cairo. He says the internet, Twitter and phone calls were all blocked there, but they are returning intermittently now. Here is his latest update on the protests there:

As darkness begins to fall, the thousands who have occupied Cairo's central square are pouring forward towards the parliament building, prompting running battles with armed police. The air is filled with teargas and some youths are hurling rocks at the police lines; many of the rocks are being thrown back by security officers.

A few moments ago a huge charge from demonstrators sent the riot police running, but they have now regrouped and are launching fresh assaults on the front wave of protesters, who are currently picking up the metal barricades installed by police and using them to set up barricades themselves. Large explosions are shaking the square, though it's not clear where they're coming from.

This is unprecedented guys, Egyptians are on fire! Ya Mubarak Ya Mubarak el so3diya fe entezarak!

Let's finish the job!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snUxP7W0ONs

Hahaha the police was pushed :rofl:

And finally Cnn to report about Egypt. Nothing from french medias or anyone else.

It is too dark I can barely see anything from the live feed video. But the chants are getting much higher...I wonder what is happening!!

International media is almost ignoring the big news in Egypt. Just like they did with Tunisia. I'm not sure why? #Jan25 #Egypt

Alexandria now Some ladies are throwing glasses and cooking pans from their home balconies on the police in the streets #Jan25

Protests continue in Mahalla. The people there are praying their brothers and sisters in Cairo manage to take over the parliament. #Jan25

More to come....

Guys post whatever you post here, here as well: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=958

Spread the word.

Reports of 2 deaths in Alexandria as forces use live bullets and tear gas #egypt #jan25 via @izzy82<< Anyone confirm this?


:(

Egypt braced for 'day of revolution' protests

Youth activists, Islamists, workers and football fans to hold rallies and marches against Mubarak government


Egyptian activists with a Tunisian flag as part of anti-government demonstrations Egyptian demonstrators hold a Tunisian flag in an anti-government protest in front of the attorney general's headquarters in Cairo last week. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters

Egypt's authoritarian government is bracing itself for one of the biggest opposition demonstrations in recent years tomorrow, as thousands of protesters prepare to take to the streets demanding political reform.

An unlikely alliance of youth activists, political Islamists, industrial workers and hardcore football fans have pledged to join a nationwide "day of revolution" on a national holiday to celebrate the achievements of the police force.

With public sentiment against state security forces at an unprecedented level following a series of high-profile police brutality cases and the torture of anti-government activists, protest organisers are hoping that a large number of Egyptians will be emboldened to attend rallies, marches and flash mobs across the country in a sustained effort to force concessions from an increasingly unpopular ruling elite.

In a move that suggests the uprising in Tunisia may be spreading to other parts of the Arab world, Tunisian activists announced they would be holding their own protests in solidarity with their Egyptian counterparts, while many Egyptians plan to wave Tunisian flags. Parallel protests are also scheduled to take place outside the Egyptian embassies in London and Washington.

Demonstrators are calling for the sacking of the country's interior minister, the cancelling of Egypt's perpetual emergency law, which suspends basic civil liberties, and a new term limit on the presidency that would bring to an end the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators.

State security officials have branded the protests illegal, and said that those taking part will be dealt with "strictly".

"I'm answering a call that began online, a call to stand up against police brutality on the day the regime wants us to celebrate their so-called achievements," said Salma Said, a 25-year-old activist and blogger who plans to protest in Cairo.

"Of course demonstrating against police brutality means demonstrating against Mubarak himself and his whole regime, because they are the ones who created this system. Momentum is gathering really, really fast; friends I haven't spoken to in years have been ringing me up, promising to come down."

Tomorrow's events, dubbed a "day of revolution against torture, corruption, poverty and unemployment" by protest leaders, were initiated by two dissident movements, both based online. One is dedicated to the memory of Khaled Said, an Alexandrian man beaten to death by police last year, while the other, "6 April", is a youth group named after the date of an uprising two years ago in the Nile delta town of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, in which three people were killed by police.

After initially dismissing the protests, the Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's largest organised opposition force - has now said it will back the demonstrations symbolically, although it has not called on its supporters to take to the streets. Strikes are expected by workers in several parts of the country, including Mahalla, and a number of Egypt's traditional opposition parties and prominent public figures have pledged support.

Mohamed Adel, a spokesman for 6 April, said the broad range of participants distinguished tomorrow's action from previous protests. "It will be the start of something big," he told the Egyptian news outlet Al-Masry Al-Youm.

In a sign of how seriously the Mubarak regime is taking any challenge to its authority following the downfall of Tunisia's president Ben Ali, counter-protests are being organised under the banner of "Mubarak: Egypt's security". Organisers say they want to express their rejection of the "destruction of state institutions" by the opposition, raising fears of violent clashes on the ground.

"Regardless of how many people turn up, these protests will be highly significant," said Nabil Abdel Fattah, a political analyst at the semi-official Al-Ahram Research Centre. "Those confronting the regime on Tuesday will be the sons and daughters of virtual activism - a new generation that has finally found something around which they can unite and rally.They are the product of a government that has never offered them any ideological vision to believe in, and now they have themselves become a symbol of contemporary Egypt."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/24/egypt-day-revolution-protests

Okay I am furious over how the media is reacting to this event :bash: :wallbash: :mad2: :bleep:

No proper reporting !!

^^ BBC and the other International media has been dumbing down the whole events for some reason, 7000 gathered in Tahrir square in Central Cairo in the past hour alone, 50,000+ at least in Cairo today, some say ggatherings are tripling in size.


Because police blocked some of the bridges, Protesters are even using the nile to get around and spread the protests!

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg611/scaled.php?tn=0&server=611&filename=8ljw.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

That's foreign medias are... When everything will be out of control they will kiss our ass to bring back their economy alliance.

عاجل : بعد غلق تويتر - الحكومة المصرية ستحجب الفيس بوك في خلال ساعتين من الان

Wow... But egyptians will keep using proxy's.

خبر غير مؤكد | مقتل 2 من المتظاهرين فى الاسكندريه، الخبر ينتشر بين المتظاهرين ولا نعرف مدى دقة صحته وجارى احضار الاسماء .
____________________________
حد يتاكدلنا على الخبر ده

عاجل : بعد غلق تويتر - الحكومة المصرية ستحجب الفيس بوك في خلال ساعتين من الان

WHAT THE! THIS IS TOTALITARIANISM! NO FACEBOOK, NO TWITTER, NO MEDIA REPORTING, WHAT IS THIS! :bash:

Praying from all my heart that insha2allah change will come to Egypt and hopefully a ripple effect would occur :D Media has to get coverage of this quickly !

http://www.commerce-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/africa2.jpg

WHAT THE! THIS IS TOTALITARIANISM! NO FACEBOOK, NO TWITTER, NO MEDIA REPORTING, WHAT IS THIS! :bash:

keep using Proxy, Moubarak is afraid because he knows that Facebook was very helpful during the tunisian protestations

جماعة لة الفيسبوك اتقفل ادخلوا على اللينك ده
http://www.free-proxy.ca/

MUST SEE!

q1m4_q_HP5o&feature=youtu.be

Stood right in the way of a speeding truck, made it stop right in it's path!

courageous egyptian


French media are talking about the protest but trying to minimize it.

Zeinobia Zeinobia
A Curfew is being imposed in Suez , tear gas grenades being used even against shops

RT @3arabawy: There are dozens injured. The police is attacking brutally in Tahrir Sq. #Jan25

Zeinobia Zeinobia
A Curfew is being imposed in Suez , tear gas grenades being used even against shops

RT @3arabawy: There are dozens injured. The police is attacking brutally in Tahrir Sq. #Jan25

The same Tunisian scenario


I'm also following 3arabawy.

WHAT THE! THIS IS TOTALITARIANISM! NO FACEBOOK, NO TWITTER, NO MEDIA REPORTING, WHAT IS THIS! :bash:

The government is scarred... very very scarred. They block social media quite obvious! :bash::bash::bash::ohno::ohno:

RT @fouad_marei: RT @3arabawy Huge neon Mubarak portrait destroyed, shattered to pieces in Raml Station, Alexandria. #Jan25 #intifada

Protesters in Tahrir need food and blankes urgently for their sit-in. We have taken over Tahrir square now #Jan25 #Egypt

RT @esraa_ali: CNNBreaking:Tahrir Square Taken Over Marches towards Parliament House ا

The government is scarred... very very scarred. They block social media quite obvious! :bash::bash::bash::ohno::ohno:

Doesn't matter.... People uses proxy...
Alot of supports via twitter, OpEgypt is giving a list of proxy's.... International hackors have been demanded to hack most of states websites.

#Egypt protests: 30k in Alexandria, 50k in Cairo, 6k in Mansoura, more in Aswan, Quina, Arish, Mahala. No media cvrg,Twitter blocked #jan25



More to come.

Protesters in Alexandria are being attacked violently #Egypt #Alexandria #Jan25 #Cairo

شبكه الرصد : عاجل : من مصادر خاصة جدا : تأكيد تمركز كتيبتين من الجيش الأصفر "قوات خاصة" بمطروح بانتظار إنطلاق أحدهم إلى الإسكندرية .. والأخرى إلى القاهرة .. سينزلون بالزي الأسود وتسليح عالي .. وكتيبة قوات بحرية تتجه إلأى الإسكندرية لحماية المباني السيادية

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:uh: This Pic gave me goosebumps!

Tahrir Square minutes ago! :

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/images/stories/2011/January_2010/01_January25_2011/jan25-night-afp.jpg

Egypt. Egypt. Egypt. Egypt! :banana:

International Hackers Anonymous have started a full hacking campaign on Egypt's government websites. #egypt #Cairo #Jan25

Electricy has been cut off in Tanta #egypt #anonymous

More to come

:uh: This Pic gave me goosebumps!

Tahrir Square minutes ago! :

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/images/stories/2011/January_2010/01_January25_2011/jan25-night-afp.jpg

Egypt. Egypt. Egypt. Egypt! :banana:


Wowwwww, unbelievable.

Mobile phone networks are being taken off completely. Very very limited network coverage in Cairo now #Jan25 #Egypt #EgyRevolt

No Mobile network, no Twitter, No Facebook soon, and Media outlets banned from reporting.

This my friends has surpassed any opression we've seen before, this is Totalitarianism!

:uh: This Pic gave me goosebumps!

Tahrir Square minutes ago! :

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/images/stories/2011/January_2010/01_January25_2011/jan25-night-afp.jpg

Egypt. Egypt. Egypt. Egypt! :banana:

LOVING THIS !!!

EGYPT IS OFFICIALLY IN PROTEST MODE

Electricity cut off ? WTF !!!

Electricity cut off ? WTF !!!

When will be the turn of Qatar ? :lol:

The strange silence of Mohamed Baradei is scaring me. Nothing on his twitter since 23th.

When will be the turn of Qatar ? :lol:

Not anytime soon (if not never) there isn't any REAL reason/demand for it, every one seems to be happy :) not saying we wouldn't be seeing this in other places though. (Oman, Saudi Arabia are on my list of GCC nations).

The strange silence of Mohamed Baradei is scaring me. Nothing on his twitter since 23th.

HIs Facebook account was updating.

With or without El Baradei, Egyptians have the ability revolt and change.

Guys, anyone watching the live feed? Seems like there is some violence.

Seen on twitter, Militants entered in the parliament by force!!!!!!!!!!!

Protesters made it into the parliament ?

HIs Facebook account was updating.

With or without El Baradei, Egyptians have the ability revolt and change.

Guys, anyone watching the live feed? Seems like there is some violence.



I forgot, twitters are now blocked, Cellphone lines are down .


Link for live feed plz?

Protesters made it into the parliament ?

Heres what he said in french....

@weddady des militants forcent l'entrée du parlement #Egypt #EgyRevol #Jan25 #25Jan #Cairo

The live feed is offline.

The live feed is offline.

I just saw that.

activists are breaking through parliament Egypt # # # EgyRevol Jan25 # # 25Jan Cairo

By Google translate :D
Sounds good. they made it in !!

Should we open a thread in 1001 nights cafe (Middle Eastern forum) ??

:uh: This Pic gave me goosebumps!

Tahrir Square minutes ago! :

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/images/stories/2011/January_2010/01_January25_2011/jan25-night-afp.jpg

Egypt. Egypt. Egypt. Egypt! :banana:

Looks like thedailynewsegypt.com... Is offline too! :bash:

NEw live feed of Tahrir Square

Different angle

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/egypt-15jan

http://www.moiegypt.gov.eg/


Egyptian government site have been hacked.

د.علي الدين هلال امين الإعلام بالحزب الوطني: ما حدث تضخيم إعلامي ومن خرج ضد النظام لا يتعدي 40 ألف من 80 مليون مصري

Hackers world wide are targeting Egyptian gov websites and bringing them down #Egypt


WOw

http://www.moiegypt.gov.eg/


Egyptian government site have been hacked.

They should have placed an image instead :)

Hearing from #Egypt tweeps of #police who took uniform, joined protesters. Unconfirmed by me. Huge Q - position of armed forces. #Jan25


!!!!!!!!!!!

د.علي الدين هلال امين الإعلام بالحزب الوطني: ما حدث تضخيم إعلامي ومن خرج ضد النظام لا يتعدي 40 ألف من 80 مليون مصري

Someone is desperate to find supporters...

Unbelievable propganda...

Omg if its trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

أنباء عن مغادرة عائلة مبارك خارج مصر

http://www.marebpress.net/news_details.php?sid=30481


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

guys what you sitting there doing ? Spread the word and say to egyptians to send the feed to skyscrapercityegypt@gmail.com also tinychat isnt blocked I'll make a chat and spread the word for once in your life let do something for egypt.

أنباء عن مغادرة عائلة مبارك خارج مصر

http://www.marebpress.net/news_details.php?sid=30481


Article says that MHM is packing his stuff and leaving.

And the good news is that, Egypt is under emergency law and police cannot handle the protest all over Egypt. Our target is Sharm El sheikh if we go there... Its over for MHM.

OMG, I'm so happy right now but that swine will probably call in the army soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHNkQoqxQ-A

OMG, I'm so happy right now but that swine will probably call in the army soon.

No, the head of the Army probably do a coup. Why helping MHM when you have the opportunity to do a coup. A coup would be worse for egypt by the army.

dude mubarak IS the head of the army.

But i fear something. Are the americans going to let us do changes? Afterall its their own safety which is in play. They will never let us do changes.

Guys in the link that Masri gave us for live feed people are screaming after gun been fired.

Ya gama3a el geish el masri 3ala enteba7.... They called their reserviste.

But i fear something. Are the americans going to let us do changes? Afterall its their own safety which is in play. They will never let us do changes.

Because it has severe impacts world wide, not just inside Egypt. Israel is probably more worried than Mubarak and the Egyptian government, the Peace agreement and gas supply is in stake.

america choose and let el baradie to be the president of the IAEA why not now?

Tahrir Square (Downtown Cairo) - Minutes Ago

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Latest: Fast Food restaurants around Tahrir sq. are giving out FREE food for the protesters!

The interior ministry: The Brotherhood are behind the protests.

LMFAO

I think the police force (like myself to be honest) underestimated Egyptians today. :)

america choose and let el baradie to be the president of the IAEA why not now?

Because Baradei won't give away free natural gaz to Israel, not sure he will respect the 1973 treaty. Baradei would be our perfect president

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Egyptians taking down MHM huge pannel
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Another shot from Tahrir Square in Downtown Cairo:

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Too much rumours. :(

In situations like this, don't believe 90 % of what you don't see.

Blocking twitter is insane behaviour, really shows what the government fears of.

Mubarak leaving the country !! I don't think so.

I really like the protests, they show we still have some spirit and dignity. :applause:

Another shot from Tahrir Square in Downtown Cairo:

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I am in love with this picture. Unbelievable.

Anonymous op have taken down the NDP website #Egypt

Mabrook ya gama3a!

Ya gama3a, Skyscrapercity is highly ranked website, but skyahwa is private that mean you have to login to view it which mean this thread is not in the search engine can we tell egypt69 to move this thread next to the information thread and the remarks and suggestions? that way Egyptians would join and contribute!

Extremely amazing idea, abdo.
This event is extraordinary egypt69, so please move it out of sky ahwa.

egypt69 is not online, I'll contact other mod and I'll spread it on twitter via #jan25 and #Egypt

that's true xAbd0o

Be strong Egypt and Guys, i'll be back in 2 hours max 3....

8 آلاف متظاهر يفترشون الأرض في سيدي جابر.. والخضيري يقود مسيرة بالإسكندرية

If this really works I can imagine what will happen worldwide, and the middle east to be specfic Tunisia inspired us yes but we can fire up the middle east!

Mabrook ya gama3a!

Were they Egyptians? :) :cheers1:

EDIT: Lol, sorry I just realised how stupid that question is since they were anonymous :doh:

:lol::lol:

on twitter, 1 dead and 100 injured!

What about the people who got shot in the head?

done thread moved, now tag the thread guys.

I'm Pissed off!!! RTL Nieuws is a Dutch television news and they said... "The police stopped the protest with tear-gas and water cannons!" *RAGE* It's just the beginning!

Oh and they said there were only some thousand protesters.. I think there are minimal 100.000 protesters.

oh my ...

HSBC Egypt reported large amount of mony was transferred outside Egypt to swiss

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12260500 (Algeria)

guys if you have twitter promote this thread with the tags #jan25 and #egypt.

WHo moved this thread and why! It says I moved it, but I didn't, Mubarak moved it or what? :crazy:

Ah nevermind, read the earlier posts. Okay good idea.

lol, btw we wont expect much tomorrow people have exams raben ma3ahom and after they finish they join the others so I call tomorrow youm el 3'laba.

Twitter:

-People are speaking about new protests across the country tomorrow #Jan25

-according to Al Shorouk news : 4 thousand people protest coming from Shobra have now joined Al Tahrir Square, Cairo, with tents and loads...

:cheers:

Edit:

-Minister of Interior ,Habib EL Adly gave orders to the forces to SHOOT gatherings after 11:15 due to "EMERGENCY LAW" #JAN25

Latest Updates


International Hackers are attacking key Egyptian Government websites, The Ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Website has been taken down, as well as the Ministry of Interior website.
Hearing from #Egypt tweeps of #police who took uniform, joined protesters. Unconfirmed by me. Huge Q - position of armed forces. #Jan25
Reports say Egyptian police in Suez opened fire live ammunition killing Mustafa Reda Mahmoud Abdelfattah, 20 years old #Egypt
Restaurants in Tahrir square are giving away food for free to protesters.
4 thousand people protest coming from Shobra have now joined Al Tahrir Square, Cairo, with tents and loads...
Currently, there are thousands of protests spreading the night in Tahrir Square, Cairo's core. There is a live stream of Tahrir square here:


http://www.ustream.tv/channel/egypt-15jan (It's currently offline though, and blocked in Egypt)

Protesters & national organizers calls Egyptians 2 a national strike tomorrow & the day after & join protesters everywhere in #Egypt. No Schools, no Universities, No Work!


Must-Watch;

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Egypt anti-govt protests escalate

Thousands call for Tunisia-style ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, while two protesters are reported to have died.

Two Egyptian civilians and a police officer have reportedly died after a wave of unusually large anti-government demonstrations swept across the country.

The two civilians died in the eastern city of Suez, according to the Reuters news agency. The report did not detail how or when they died.

Meanwhile, in Cairo, a police officer died in the capital's biggest protest - held in Tahrir Square in the city centre - state television reported.

Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets on Tuesday in what were reportedly the largest demonstrations in years, and which they explicitly tied to the successful uprising in nearby Tunisia.

On Tuesday night, hours after the countrywide protests began, the interior ministry issued a statement blaming the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's technically banned but largest opposition party, for fomenting the unrest.

Inspired by events in Tunisia, thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo and elsewhere, calling for reforms and demanding an end to the presidency of Hosni Mubarak, which has now lasted for nearly three decades.

The demonstrations prompted US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to assert during a press conference that "Egypt's government is stable."

Water cannons and tear gas

Some protesters in downtown Cairo hurled rocks and climbed atop an armoured police truck.

Police responded to the demonstrators blasts from a water cannon, and set upon crowds with batons and acrid clouds of tear gas to clear them crying out "Down with Mubarak'' and demanding an end to the country's grinding poverty.

Police have also used rubber bullets against protesters, with some injuries, reported Rawya Rageh, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Cairo.

Clinton urged all sides in Egypt to exercise restraint following the street protests, saying she believed the government was looking for ways to respond to its populations concerns.

But at least 30 people are already reported to have been arrested in Cairo, official sources said.

More protests

Protests also broke out in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the Nile Delta cities of Mansura and Tanta and in the southern cities of Aswan and Assiut, witnesses reported.

The rallies had been promoted online by groups saying they speak for young Egyptians frustrated by the kind of poverty and oppression which triggered the overthrow of Tunisia's president.

Egyptian blogger Hossam El Hamalawy said technology was important in facilitating "the domino effect" needed for demonstrations like this one to progress.

Mamdouh Khayrat, 23, travelled from the governorate of Qalubiya to attend protests in Cairo. He spoke to Al Jazeera's Adam Makary. "We want a functioning government, we want Mubarak to step down, we don't want emergency law, we don't want to live under this kind of oppression anymore," he said.

"Enough is enough, things have to change and if Tunisia can do it, why can't we?" Khayrat added.

El Hamalawy told Al Jazeera the protests were necessary "to send a message to the Egyptian regime that Mubarak is no different than Ben Ali and we want him to leave too".

On Tuesday downtown Cairo came to a standstill with protesters chanting slogans and marching towards what Al Jazeera's Rageh called the "symbols of their complaints and their agony," the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party, the foreign ministry and the state television.

Scenes such as these have not been seen in the capital since the 1970s.

A day of revolution

Black-clad riot police, backed by armoured vehicles and fire engines, have been deployed in a massive security operation in Cairo, with the biggest concentrations and likely flashpoints, including: the Cairo University campus, the central Tahrir Square and the courthouse where protesters are said to be gathering.

Coinciding with a national holiday in honour of the police, a key force in keeping president Mubarak in power for 30 years, the outcome in Egypt on Tuesday is seen as a test on whether vibrant Web activism can translate into street action.

Organisers have called for a "day of revolution against torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment".

"Activists said they wanted to use this particular day to highlight the irony of celebrating Egypt's police at a time when police brutality is making headlines," Al Jazeera's Rageh reported.

Banned demonstrationsThe Egyptian government had earlier warned protesters.

"The security apparatus will deal firmly and decisively with any attempt to break the law," the government's director for security in the capital Cairo said in a statement released ahead of the protests.

Thousands take to the streets
Unrest in Egypt



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Since Egypt bans demonstrations without prior permission, opposition groups say they have been denied such permits, any protesters may be detained.

Habib el-Adli, the interior minister, had earlier issued orders to "arrest any persons expressing their views illegally".

"Beginning of the end"

Activists have been relying heavily on social networks to organise the protests.

"Our protest on the 25th is the beginning of the end," wrote organisers of a Facebook group with 87,000 followers.

"People are fed up of Mubarak and of his dictatorship and of his torture chambers and of his failed economic policies. If Mubarak is not overthrown tomorrow then it will be the day after. If its not the day after its going to be next week," El Hamalawy told Al Jazeera.

Rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Egypt's authorities "to allow peaceful protests".

Protests in Egypt, the biggest Arab state and a keystone Western ally in the Middle East, tend to be poorly attended and are often quashed swiftly by the police, who prevent marching.

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Egypt protests: Three reported dead in 'day of revolt'

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At least three people have been killed during a day of rare anti-government protests in Egypt, reports say.

In Cairo, where the biggest rallies were held, state TV said a policeman had died in clashes. Two protesters died in Suez, doctors there said.

Thousands joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.

In Cairo, police used tear gas and water cannon in an attempt to disperse the crowds.

Activists had called for a "day of revolt" in a web message. Protests are uncommon in Egypt, which President Hosni Mubarak has ruled since 1981, tolerating little dissent.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said her administration supported "the fundamental right of expression and assembly" and urged all parties "to exercise restraint".

She added that Washington believed the Egyptian government was "stable" and "looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people".


The events in Cairo were co-ordinated on a Facebook page - tens of thousands of supporters clicked on the page to say they would take part.

Reports said the social networking site Twitter had been blocked in Egypt and that mobile phone networks in the Cairo area were down.

The Swedish-based website Bambuser, which streams video from mobile phones, said it had been blocked in Egypt. On its blog, it accused Egyptian officials of trying to control the news agenda.

The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo said rallies had been held in several parts of the capital, and the turnout had been more than the organisers could have hoped.

Police were taken aback by the anger of the crowd and let protesters make their way to the parliament building, he says.

There police regrouped in full riot gear with tear gas and water cannon and temporarily drove the crowd back. However, protesters threw stones and stood their ground, pushing the police back until they were on the run.

Our correspondent says the scale of the clashes will surely come as a shock to President Mubarak.

Protests also broke out in other areas, including the eastern city of Ismailiya and the northern port city of Alexandria.

In Alexandria, witnesses said thousands joined the protests, some chanting: "Revolution, revolution, like a volcano, against Mubarak the coward."

'Nothing to fear'

In Cairo's Tahrir Square, demonstrators attacked a police water cannon vehicle, opening the driver's door and ordering the man out of the vehicle.

Officers beat back protesters with batons as they tried to break the police cordons to join the main demonstration.

One protester, 43-year-old lawyer Tareq el-Shabasi, told the Associated Press news agency: "I came here today willing to die, I have nothing to fear."

The AFP news agency reported that protesters had gathered outside the Supreme Court holding large signs that read: "Tunisia is the solution."

They then broke through lines of police and began to march through the streets, chanting: "Down with Mubarak."

Some chants referred to Mr Mubarak's son Gamal, who some analysts believe is being groomed as his father's successor. "Gamal, tell your father Egyptians hate you," they shouted.

The organisers rallied support saying the protest would focus on torture, poverty, corruption and unemployment, calling it "the beginning of the end".

"It is the end of silence, acquiescence and submission to what is happening in our country," they said in comments carried by Reuters news agency.

"It will be the start of a new page in Egypt's history - one of activism and demanding our rights."

George Ishaq, an Egyptian opposition leader, said security forces had been "confounded".

He added: "In the end, we will get our rights because this is just the beginning.

"This will not end. Our anger will continue over the coming days. We will put forth our conditions and requests until the system responds and leaves."

Disillusioned
Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month.

Egypt has many of the same social and political problems that brought about the unrest in Tunisia - rising food prices, high unemployment and anger at official corruption.

However, the population of Egypt has a much lower level of education than Tunisia. Illiteracy is high and internet penetration is low.

There are deep frustrations in Egyptian society, our Cairo correspondent says, yet Egyptians are almost as disillusioned with the opposition as they are with the government; even the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Islamist movement, seems rudderless.

While one opposition leader, Mohamed ElBaradei, called on Egyptians to take part in these protests, the Muslim Brotherhood has been more ambivalent.

Our correspondent adds that Egypt is widely seen to have lost power, status and prestige in the three decades of President Mubarak's rule.

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El Baradei on CNN!

I feel ashamed that I'm not there, I feel useless.

I feel ashamed that I'm not there, I feel useless.

I feel the same too, but we're what? 15, 16 year olds? There's nothing we can do, we can't independantly decide to jump on the next flight to Cairo, even by law.

When we're older, we'll have all the time in the world to take action ourselves. I think the fact that such a young generation of Egyptians care this much, means alot.

El Baradei on CNN!

I just checked CNN...nothing on. What did he say?

Protest @ Tahrir Square (Downtown Cairo)

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I feel the same too, but we're what? 15, 16 year olds? There's nothing we can do, we can't independantly decide to jump on the next flight to Cairo, even by law.

When we're older, we'll have all the time in the world to take action ourselves. I think the fact that such a young generation of Egyptians care this much, means alot.

I know you're right but still, I can't help it. :S

Protest @ Tahrir Square (Downtown Cairo)

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^^ That's beautiful.

Egyptians in Alexandria ripping down posters of Hosni Mubarak and NDP, very powerful video:

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^^This is the same place, where this president apparently got 96% majority in Egypt's last rigged elections.



From EgyptianChronicles blog:

#Jan25 : A Real New Hope

I remember that I called Mohamed ElBaradei as a new hope in Egypt , well what I have seen by my own eyes and heard by my own ears. If millions were and are at their homes , thousands , real thousands took the streets across the country and it started with Facebook invitation and a revolution in a sister country.

I live in Mohendessin and the first place I tried to cover was Gamat Al Doul street and Mustafa square, I thought that the protest would start at 2 PM but I was wrong when I went all what I found CSF vehicles moving around. It turned out that the protest started earlier and turned a march that moved in to Al-Batal Ahmed Abdel Aziz street then in to Tahrir street in order to reach Cairo and Tahrir Square , Down Town.

A friend of the family living at Gamat Al Doul street described a scene she has not seen in her entire life in that upscale neighborhood , thousands "estimation of 10,000 protesters" flooding like an angry river chanting angry anti-Mubarak regime chants.

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I was in a car so I moved easily to the October bridge in order to head to Down Town Cairo protests , the bridge was moving too slowly because the security diverted all the traffic down town in a way you can imagine. We reached to the Egyptian museum and all what I can see from far was a large group of people and some Egyptian flags.

We tried all the streets down town that end at Al Tahrir square and all what I found is a dead end , all streets were blocked. The Abdeen Palace was blocked at the same way.

Later I knew that the protest of Al Tahrir street and it was stuck at the Galaa bridge thus after a lot of adventures at Cairo and later at Zamalak I reached to the Galaa bridge I found the protest moving in its way to Cairo to Kasr Al Nil bridge in order to reach to Al Tahrir square.

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^^ look at the Sea of people coming in out of nowhere shouting "Freedom!".

The security forces attacked the protesters and this is something I witnessed it with my own eyes.:

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All bridges between Cairo and Giza are being blocked to the moment of writing down this post. A relative of mine working in the National TV building tell us that the they are under siege in the country.

Today I feel that fear wall began to fall down.

Twitter has been blocked in Egypt , a stupid move because there are other alternatives like Hoot Suite.
More to come insh Allah.

Thousands have taken the streets of Alexandria , Mahalla, Ismailia , Port Said and Aswan. The numbers are incredible.
The protesters in North Sinia have reportedly cut the international highway .

Here are photos from Ahmed Abdel from Mahalla earlier today "through his mobile phones"

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Here is a snap shot for the protests in Alexandria "not less than 20,000"

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This great video presents to us an Egypitan Tainanem square moment at Kasr Al Nil street where the security forces attacked the protesters."Radio Hortyana"


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There are clashes at Tahrir square , about thousands of activists and regular people "for the first time" are there. Some were injured , some were arrested . They can't use their mobiles , we are asking the people who live there to open their Wi-Fi networks to help them. We got updates that activists. This photo from AFP at Daily News Egypt can give an idea on what is going on there now.

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Mrs. Hilary Clinton has issued unneeded press statement about what is happening in Egypt , what parties she is speaking about , it is only the regime and the people !!

Follow The Guardian live updated page. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia

There was a protest earlier today in Fayoum "we do not know what happened to it"

The website of NDP is suddenly unavailable , we do not know if it is hacked or not
There is unconfirmed rumor that the government will block the Facebook in two hours.
Here are photos from inside the sieged Al Tahrir square itself through her blackberry phone

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Here is another video from Al Wafd portal showing some citizens at the underground suffering from tear gas grenades


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Here is a video from Sinai from our friend Al-Anay in North Sinai , there were not less than 300 protests including women and children protesting the Mubarak regime policies.

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The MOI issued a statement accusing of the Muslim brotherhood of launching that protest !! They are claiming that there are injured soldiers.
Hundreds of activists are allegedly arrested today and also a number of protesters were injured and transferred to the hospitals.
There is a curfew imposed in Suez
There are violent clashes in Mahalla that have started from an hour ago "I think the thugs were let in by the police to destroy the properties in the area"

My friend Tarek Shalaby published what he filmed today live in the protests. http://qik.com/tarekshalaby
UStream is blocked in Egypt
I received updates that two protesters were killed tonight in Suez City by the security forces' live ammunition.

http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/01/jan25-real-new-hope.html

Anti-Govt Protestors Tearing Down Pictures of Mubarak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lUC2-tex8_o#!

^^ Definitely the best video of the day. Wow.


A curfew has been imposed in Suez City
About 77 injured from civilians are lying in two hospitals in Suez city.
The names of the Suez victims or heroes who shot dead today there are : Seliman Saber Ali - 40yrs and Mostafa Ragb Abdelfatah - 25 yrs


R.I.P to the martyrs.


More great photos from today:

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NDP poster being removed, and protesters wrote "Get out Mubarak" on it :cheers:

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Tahrir Square, this the scene now, and will be the scene for the whole night:

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Minister of Interior ,Habib EL Adly gave orders to the forces to SHOOT gatherings after 11:15 due to "EMERGENCY LAW" #JAN25

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Minister of Interior ,Habib EL Adly gave orders to the forces to SHOOT gatherings after 11:15 due to "EMERGENCY LAW" #JAN25

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They will pay the price, things will only get worse for the regime if they do so.

Guys, anyone watching Masr El Nahrda? Seriously, it is a HUGE joke.

They are blaming..."foreign hands" for exploiting the protests today..!! WOW.

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They will pay the price, things will only get worse for the regime if they do so.

Yeah, I mean the UN will propably do something about it, right?

^^

Probably not, but it will make things worse for them, because it will be a bigger reason for anger.

Guys, anyone watching Masr El Nahrda? Seriously, it is a HUGE joke.

They are blaming..."foreign hands" for exploiting the protests today..!! WOW.

F**** Masr El Naharda, people, take down the names of these traitors, so that we can boycott them when the mess clears up.

The whole Egyptian government is one hell of a JOKE!

I've always admired Mahmoud Saad and those guys, they love Egypt why would they say something like that?

Suzan Mubarak just arrived at Heathrow airport in London - Egyptian terminal workers at London Heathrow Airport confirmed that. #Jan25

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Amazing! The Riot police looks like that they are a bunch of douchbags! :lol:

simply because they are paid/forced to do so :) or they are afraid of mourak's regime

The Tahriri protest being broken up the police in Cairo

LIVE FEED: http://www.justin.tv/cairowitness#/w/797816992

^^

You can hear shots, I hope those aren't gunshots! :bash:

Protesters declare open-ended sit-in in Tahrir Square; experts fear escalation

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After violent clashes with police, thousands of protesters announced they would stage an open-ended sit-in in Cairo's centrally-located Tahrir Square until their demands for political and economic reform were met.

Activist and protestor Amar Ali Hassan told Al-Masry Al-Youm from Tahrir Square that Tuesday's demonstrations were bigger than the initial protests that had eventually led to the recent Tunisian uprising. He pointed to signs that the situation in Egypt could eventually lead to a similar scenario.

Hassan described Tuesday's protests as “historic,” saying they had been unlike any others witnessed in Egypt. "And that gives me hope," he said.

“When people see what happened today, more will join the protests--especially now that Egypt has become a tinderbox waiting for a match to set it alight,” Hassan added.

Hassan also asserted that Tuesday's protests had eliminated any chance of a presidential bid by Gamal Mubarak, son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He added that the number of protesters had "exceeded all expectations," saying that the massive protests "could force the regime to either apply drastic changes or leave."

A group of activists from the 6 April reform movement, which initially called for Tuesday's "Day of Anger," erected a tent in the middle of Tahrir Square to show their intention to stay put until their demands were met.

Adel Abou Zeid, a member of the liberal opposition Ghad Party, is among those who plan to spend the night in Tahrir Square. Abou Zeid said he had long suffered from a sense of injustice, saying that he had "finally found a way of making my voice heard."

"I have been crushed for thirty years--I can handle a one- or two-month sit-in,” he said. “I will stay here until Mubarak leaves. The Tunisians are no better than us!"

Mohsen, another protester, likewise said he would not leave Tahrir Square until protesters' demands were met. He went on to urge all Egyptian citizens to participate in the demonstrations.

“We want everybody in Egypt to come out onto the streets," he said. "The regime doesn’t have 80 million police officers to stop us.”

Heavy clashes had erupted earlier between protesters and police that had lasted for several hours, leading to injuries on both sides as protesters tried to reach the parliament building in downtown Cairo.

Security forces chased protesters down nearby Kasr al-Einy Street with police trucks, frequently blasting them with water cannons and tear gas. Protesters responded by attacking the trucks and throwing rocks at police.

Similar clashes broke out in Tahrir Square as protesters and police pelted one another with rocks. During the clashes, several protesters were snatched from the crowd and detained by police.

The protest in Tahrir Square began when protesters managed to break through several police cordons in a march from Egypt's nearby Supreme Court to the square. They were later joined by thousands of additional protesters who marched from Cairo's Dokki and Shubra districts.

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/protesters-declare-open-ended-sit-tahrir-square-experts-fear-escalation

Bad news coming in, It is 01:10 AM CLT now and our friends in Al Tahrir square are currently under huge attack from the security forces that are firing cannons of tear gas. Mass arrests are taking place in the streets of Al Tahrir. Many are injured. Ambulances are heading to the place. The party is now heading to Ramses Street.


These tear gas grenades are made in the USA:

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I would just like to give a BIG Middle finger to the United States, and all other Western governments, that continue to back and support our illegitimate and brutal regime, while 80 million are suffering day and night, while claiming to be "the forefathers of Freedom and human rights".

I, and the rest of Egyptians, honestly hate you from the very bottom of our hearts.

Live stream from Tahrir square: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12241413

The Ministry of Interior Website hacked:

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What a day remarkable day for Egypt!! I'm proud to be Egyptian!

I'm going to bed after 36 hours awake...

Egyptians.. Good luck tonight!! God Bless!

And i feel ashamed to live in America...

^^ Don't you live in Montreal?

And yeah, today was a remarkable day, the show of numbers was unprecedented, and the bravery displayed immense. This is one of the biggest days in modern Egyptian history, and I am extremely proud of my fellow countrymen, and hope the show of resistance continues and continues, so one day, we will see the result we want.


I'm probably going to do very bad on my exam tomorrow because I haven't studied when I should be, and I was glued to the computer, but it was worth it, this doesn't happen in Egypt everyday. If you'll excuse me gents, I'm going to go study now, and I will leave you with this video of 2 Egyptians being thrown off a police truck at speed:

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^^ Don't you live in Montreal?

And yeah, today was a remarkable day, the show of numbers was unprecedented, and the bravery displayed immense. This is one of the biggest days in modern Egyptian history, and I am extremely proud of my fellow countrymen, and hope the show of resistance continues and continues, one day, we will see the result we want.


I'm probably going to do very bad on my exam tomorrow because I haven't studied when I should be, and I was glued to the computer, but it was worth it, this doesn't happen in Egypt everyday. If you'll excuse me gents, I'm going to go study now, and I will leave you with this video of 2 Egyptians being thrown off a police truck at speed:

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:ohno:

Canada same shit as USA...


Mostafa Al-Naggar, coordinator of elBaradei presidential campaign arrested #Jan25 #Egypt via @Tharwacolamus:

Shocking video :(

Canada same shit as USA...

Not really, Canada doesn't support Mubarak's regime much, Canada does not put billions of pockets into Mubarak's pocket a year, and keeping Mubarak in power is not on its Agenda. Canada's pretty neutral on the issue.

Not really, Canada doesn't support Mubarak's regime much, Canada does not put billions of pockets into Mubarak's pocket a year, and keeping Mubarak in power is not on its Agenda. Canada's pretty neutral on the issue.

Not sure about that one... They accepted Ben Ali family instead of sending back to Tunisia to be judged.

Are we talking about Ben Ali or Mubarak now?

Anyways, there's a difference between accepting Ben Ali's extended family, and accepting Ben Ali himself. If they accepted Ben Ali himself, than they are recognizing him as a head of state, whereas he's extended family hold no official position, they're just family, and aren;t much different than Tunisian immigrant living in Canada. As far as I'm aware, Canada did not accept to host Ben Ali.

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2010? Has this happened before or is it a typo?

Egypt: President's son and family 'have fled to the UK'

Gamal Mubarak, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is widely tipped as his successor, has fled to London with his family, Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab said on Tuesday.

Cairo, 25 Jan. (AKI) - Gamal Mubarak, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is widely tipped as his successor, has fled to London with his family, Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab said on Tuesday. The report came as violent unrest broke out in Cairo and other Egyptian cities and hundreds of thousands of people reportedly took to the streets in a Tunisia-inspired day of revolt.

Officials did not immediately confirm the report that Gamal Mubarak has fled to the British capital with his wife and daughter aboard a private jet.

The jet with Mubarak, his family and 97 pieces of luggage on board left for London on Tuesday from an airport in western Cairo, according to the US-based Akhbar al-Arab.

Weeks of unrest in Tunisia eventually toppled president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month. The anti-government protests in Egypt broke out after opposition groups waged an internet campaign inspired by the Tunisian uprising.

An anti-riot police officer was killed in clashes on Tuesday in central Cairo, Egyptian daily 'al-Wafd' reported. Egyptian security forces reported used tear gas, fire hoses, and clubs to disperse protesters in Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo.

Over 30,000 anti-government protesters had gathered. in Cairo's Maidan al-Tahrir square to take part in the 'day of anger', the spokesman for Egypt's '6 April' opposition movement, Mohammed Adel, told Adnkronos International (AKI) in an interview.

"Police used tear gas and water canon to break up our protest and they arrested 40 of us, but we don't have official figures on the numbers of arrests across Egypt," said Adel.

Supporters of the '6 April' movement, the opposition al-Ghad party, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the al-Wafd party and supporters of former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed El Baradei took part in the protest.

The protesters want Egypt to end its 30-year state of emergency and pass a law preventing a president from serving more than two terms, and want the interior minister Habib al-Adly, to resign.

Al-Wafd daily said police arrested 600 people during Tuesday's protests in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Tantan, al-Mahala, Asiut, al-Bahira and al-Quium.

Between 200,000 and 300,000 people took part in protests in these cities on Tuesday, according to the Rasad al-Ikhbari observatory, which is staffed by journalists and opposition activists.

Police set dogs on protesters in Port Said and charged protesters in Suez and al-Mahala, an unnamed activist from Rasad al-Ikhbari told AKI.

Protests are rare in Egypt, where Mubarak tolerates little dissent.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday Washington believed the Egyptian government was stable and urged restraint on both sides.

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Presidents-son-and-family-have-fled-to-the-UK_311591050596.html

From Macleans

Gamal Mubarak reportedly flees Egypt
Longtime president’s son once seen as likely successor

The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, has reportedly fled Egypt for the UK with his family. Unconfirmed reports out of Cairo say the younger Mubarak boarded a private jet bound for London with his family and nearly one hundred pieces of luggage. His departure, if confirmed, comes after a day of unprecedented mass protests in the streets of Cairo and other cities throughout Egypt. Over 30,000 people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest the Mubarak regime, which has run the country for 30 years under a state of emergency and with little tolerance for dissent. One riot police officer has been confirmed killed, and about 600 people were arrested in the Cairo protests. Gamal Mubarak’s departure from Egypt comes on the heels of Tunisian President Ben Ali’s flight from Tunisia following violent anti-government protests in Tunis.

http://www2.macleans.ca/category/need-to-know/?current=168632#post168632

I know that I wont be able to be with my brothers against this injustice but I did what I was able to help with and I spent every sec pray for egypt.

I might not be in Egypt but Egypt is inside me all the time.

Egypt: President's son and family 'have fled to the UK'



http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Presidents-son-and-family-have-fled-to-the-UK_311591050596.html

I read this and the 200,000 - 300,000 part shocked me!

^^ I still think it's not true.

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Embarassing date fail. 25/1/2010? :doh:

They need to rename the video ASAP.

I know that I wont be able to be with my brothers against this injustice but I did what I was able to help with and I spent every sec pray for egypt.

I might not be in Egypt but Egypt is inside me all the time.

Egypt is what makes me stronger. If not i don't see what would be my life without serving Egypt.

I know even though am not in Egypt now but there is a flame inside me that make me feel like I want to do something but what is it?

Protestors closed 6th of october bridge!

I just want to go out and scream "Long Live Egypt" while waving the Egyptian flag. My neighbours would call the police if I did though.

Update: Third death confirmed in Egypt

Jan 26th, 2011 | By Manar Ammar | Category: Egypt, Featured

A third man has been declared dead in Suez after he was shot in the stomach, a medical source said late Tuesday night.

Ghareeb Al-Saied, 44, was allegedly shot dead by riot police after clashes between security and Egyptians in the city of Suez. Al-Saied died shortly after arriving at the hospital as a result of internal bleeding.

It was reported that injuries resulting from police violence have reached 120 in Suez alone.

In Cairo, the protesters were forced to leave Tahrir square under a hail of tear gas bombs, sound bombs and water cannons.

Some of the crowds are regrouping in surrounding streets and reportedly heading towards Ramses square, another major square in downtown Cairo.

Online activists have reported that many of the protesters have been badly beaten by police and have taken refuge at surrounding streets, awaiting medical help.

As the reports of violence and deaths were being reported outside the capital, eyewitnesses near downtown Cairo told Bikya Masr that massive amounts of tear gas and possible gun fire have been heard. Police are also beating up protesters, the eyewitness – who was violently abused herself – said.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the government shut down of social media websites, where activists had been continually updating each other on how the demonstrations were and are going in the country and documenting police arrests and violence towards the crowds.

Activists online have been asking residents in downtown Cairo to unlock their wi-fi passwords so demonstrators can reach each one another and post updated pictures, videos and news for the world to see.

More Bikya Masr coverage of the protests:

Thousands protest in Cairo

Update: Thousands protest in Cairo


http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=24682

Update: Third death confirmed in Egypt




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That would be the 4th, 3 civilians and 1 cop... Right?

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sKRtiPdJ4-02uj41C1_S3Xg/view.m?id=15&gid=global/blog/2011/jan/25/middleeast-tunisia&cat=most-read

10:19 a must read that what we want!

I want to know what Mubarak is thinking right now, if you guys can find an interview or something please post it ASAP. :)

EDIT: not really an interview but idk what it's called in English. :P

The options are limited for the gov but for the people we can lots of choices now!

2 of them, tomorrow's protest they should tell the policemen that we know they'll be treated badly if they support but if for once only once they supported the regime have no support and they are going down

other thing if the army moved! 500,000 active and 500,000 not active the army itself if went down the street the police will vanish from the street! Thats by law I think.

Azmat mubarak is at sharm he live there it doesnt take an interview or what ever to know just put yourself in his place he propably peeing on himself while we're speaking. He knows the army will turn its back and the police will get exhausted sooner!

I found a cool video, ignore the narration it's in Swedish. http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter_och_debatt/tv4nyheterna?title=tiotusentals_kravde_mubaraks_avgang&videoid=1205880

Translation

The Yasmine Revolution in Tunisia has spread, today on the "Day of change/wrath" thousands of people demonstrated in Egypt. They're demanding that the president resigns. 2 demonstrators have been shot to death and the protests, the biggest in several years can lead to the fall of Mubarak.

That's what the first guy said.

The stones are hailing at the police for its prior the demonstrators had broken the police's barriers and continued downtown but the police was relatively violent in the beginning. Just like the protesters have had their eyes turned towards Tunisia the police has learned from the Tunisian mistakes which is using to much violence. In Cairo one policeman died and in the city of Suez two demonstrators died, one from tear gas and one from a thrown rock. This was the biggest demonstration in Egypt in several years and some demonstrators said that they don't know how it will end... [Arabic]


Egypts president Mubarak has been in power for almost 30 years. The demonstration is partly about the lack of democracy but also about the standard of living in a country were almost half of the population (wtf?) lives below international poverty line.