Call-out for solidarity with Egypt: defend the revolution

[Fire Walk With Me]

If they stifle our resistance, the 1% will win. But while the revolution lives, our imaginations knows no bounds. We can still create a world worth living.

After three decades of living under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread, freedom and social justice. After a nearly Utopian occupation of Tahrir Square lasting eighteen days, we rid ourselves of Mubarak and began the second, harder, task of removing his apparatuses of power. Mubarak is gone, but the military regime lives on. So the revolution continues — building pressure, taking to the streets and claiming the right to control our lives and livelihoods against systems of repression that abused us for years. But now, seemingly so soon after its beginnings, the revolution is under attack.

We write this letter to tell you about what we are seeing, how we mean to stand against this crackdown, and to call for your solidarity with us.

http://roarmag.org/2011/11/call-out-for-solidarity-with-egypt-defend-the-revolution/

[NYC_SKP]

1. It's global, in the end. K/R (nt)

[louslobbs]

2. K&R n/t

Lou

[Goldstein1984]

3. It is global. This revolution began in Tunis

Workers everywhere have to learn that we have more in common with each other than we have with our national ruling classes, because the national ruling classes are all part of a global ruling class. It is peasant against tyrant, regardless of what political camouflage the tyrant hides behind.

[MedleyMisty]

4. If anyone ever says "I'm just one person, what can I do?"

Tell them how one fruit vendor in Tunisia changed the world.

[Goldstein1984]

5. I do the same, and I also tell them

that it may be that in their present cirucumstances there is nothing grand that they can do. There is nothing more futile than a solo stampede. But a revolutionary mind is a necessary first step for revolutionary acts, and spreading the outrage is doing a great deal to prepare for grand acts to come.

[pennylane100]

7. We can do a lot more today.

because of technology. We can sign petitions online, write and call our elected officials. Send money to groups like Move on and Act Blue. As social movements for change go, technology is the great equalizer.

[PETRUS]

6. kick

[AntiFascist]

8. Things could get interesting this 'Spring' after the cold weather...

the Arab Spring and 99% movement rise together in solidarity.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Kick

[EFerrari]

10. kICK

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Kick