from The Nation:
Egypt Declares November 12 an International Day Of ActionAllison Kilkenny on November 7, 2011 - 11:58am ET
No other international protests in recent memory (with perhaps the exception of the global justice movement) have enjoyed the worldwide solidarity of the Occupy movements.
Around 1,500 Occupy chapters have sprung up across the globe, and the Internet permits these groups—that sometimes have tens of thousands of miles and oceans between them—to share information and monitor one another’s progress.
It is this success and popularity that attracted Egypt’s activists, who were at the forefront of the new global justice movement during the Arab Spring, to call for an international day of action to defend their revolution. From the Guardian:
In a statement appealing for solidarity from the worldwide Occupy movement that has taken control of public squares in London, New York and hundreds of other cities, campaigners in Egypt claim their revolution is “under attack” from army generals and insist they too are fighting against a “1%” elite intent on stifling democracy and promoting social injustice.
This is a precarious time for both the Egyptian revolution and global Occupy movements. Constant assaults by the military and police, respectively, leave the uprisings vulnerable to becoming purely defensive rather than offensive actions. .........(more)
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/164439/egypt-declares-november-12-international-day-action
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