Egypt's Revolution by Facebook

[katty]

more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-26/egypts-revolution-by-internet/?cid=hp:mainpromo2

Inspired by Tunisia, Egyptians began their protests online and then added hard tactics on the ground in their effort to bring down a crushingly effective police state. Mike Giglio on why

President Hosni Mubarak should be worried.

Basem Fathi, an organizer of Monday’s protests in Cairo, was scrambling around the capital, trying to buy towels and tents. On a day in which tens of thousands of people thronged the streets in the type of large-scale protests that authoritarian Egypt hasn’t seen in decades, demonstrators had occupied the central Tahrir Square, where they had the parliament building surrounded. Now they looked ready to stay the night. Fathi seemed taken aback by the success. “We didn’t have a boss for this, but the heads of the protest are trying to supply some logistics,” he said. He added that he had no idea what came next. “Nobody knows. But at least people are starting to believe that they can do something—and not just today.”


The Tunisia Effect in EgyptInspired by the revolution in Tunisia, the Monday protests began a little more than a week ago, with a campaign on a popular Facebook page

[arcane1]

1. I keep seeing references to a Facebook page

But I have yet to find the actual page :evilfrown:

[katty]

2. i know - don't know what is really going on with 'that page'

[applegrove]

3. Apparently the egyptian government blocked facebook, twitter and google late in the day today.