Activism – Page 18

Ahmad Nabil el-Hilaly passes away

Veteran Marxist lawyer Ahmad Nabil el-Hilaly, died this morning of kidney failure in El-Salam Hospital, in Ma3adi, Cairo, only 11 days after his life-long friend and comrade Youssef Darwish passed away.
Born in 1928, the son of a landowning pasha who was the last Prime Minister of Egypt before the 1952 coup, Hilaly, a.k.a. Comrade Beshir, gave up his wealth and land, living instead a poor humble life, dedicating his career to defending peasants, workers, and the poor in Egypt and the Arab World. After helping revive the Egyptian Communist Party in 1975, Hilaly led a split in the late 1980s, cofounding with Darwish, the People’s Socialist Party.
Hilaly headed the legal defense team during the Revolutionary Socialists’ trial in 2004. Here’s his opening statement in court.
Hilaly’s funeral will take place tomorrow Monday noon, in front of 3omar Makram mosque in Tahrir Sq. His family and friends will mourn his death and receive condolences, Tuesday evening, at el-Hamdiya el-Shazliya mosque in Giza. Continue reading

Solidarity events planned tomorrow

The Libertiesâ€™ Committee has called for a stand in solidarity with detained journalists and activists tomorrow Thursday 12 noon, at the Press Syndicate. At 1pm, activists will also assemble in front of the General Prosecutorâ€™s office to demand the release of the detainees.

Sharqawi’s ordeal continues…

Youth for Change activist, Mohamed el-Sharqawi sent a new letter from Mahkoum Tora Prison, cell no. 1-B, dated 12 June, complaining of medical negligence. The State Security Prosecutor had decided earlier last week to allow him treatment at El-Manyal University Hospital outside prison. Apparently this all turned out to be a farce. Here are excerpts from Sharqawi’s letter: Continue reading

Support fired activist

Pro-democracy activist Ahmad El Droubi is to take legal action against his company, after he was dismissed for his political activism. Droubi had sent a letter of complaint to his management protesting his unfair dismissal, but as of the moment, WorleyParsons Komex has NOT replied. Droubi has joined the ranks of the ever-growing army of unemployed Egyptians.
Please express your solidarity with pro-democracy activist Droubi, and email the following message to his company directors. Continue reading

Anti-globalizatin group calls for release of detainees

The Anti-Globalization Egyptian Group (AGEG) has issued a statement calling for the release of socialist activist Wael Khalil, one of the group’s founders, and the rest of the pro-democracy detainees. Continue reading

Released detainee fired from his job

I received a message from Kefaya activist Ahmad el-Droubiâ€”who was detained by State Security police on April 24, then taken to Tora Prison for 33 daysâ€”saying he was fired from his job, as an ecologist with WorleyParsons Komex. The decision, according to Droubi, was taken by the Egyptian manager of the multinational’s office in Cairo.
Here are excerpts from Droubi’s letter sent to the firmâ€™s senior management in London, dated June 8, 2006: Continue reading

Inverting the flag

An interesting phenomenon indeedâ€¦ The Egyptian bloggers are circulating inverted Egyptian flags on their websites and mailing lists.

The initiative was launched, it seems, shortly before the May 25 pro-judges demo, but itâ€™s picking up now. Several blogs have posted the picture including:

-Wael 3abbass put the inverted flag on his front page of this week’s issue of MisrDigital, with a caption: â€œYes, weâ€™ve inverted the flag, because the country is in a catastrophe. We will not correct it, till the country itself is corrected.â€� Continue reading Inverting the flag

3alaa still blogging from prison…

The Arab World’s most prominent blogger, 3alaa Seif al-Islam, is still blogging from his cell in Tora Prison.

Here’s the latest post he sent from prison today, and here is another one that includes hisÂ thoughts/rantingsÂ about a post-Hosni Egypt.

Activism Calender

The Libertiesâ€™ Committee and the Alliance of National Forces have called for a solidarity protest with the detainees, in front of the Press Syndicate tomorrow, Sunday, 7pm. The protest will last for an hour, followed by a conference inside the syndicate.

The Center for Socialist Studies, whose director Kamal Khalil is currently detained in Tora Prison, is organizing a series of weekly events too…. Continue reading Activism Calender

Meet the bloggers..

The Center for Socialist Studies in Giza, whose director Kamal Khalil is currently detained in Tora Prison, will be hosting a talk, tomorrow Saturday, titled “Egyptian bloggers.. New Media.. New Policy,”Â featuring several Egyptian bloggers:

NoraÂ Younis, Wael Abbass, Malek MustafaÂ (one of the bloggers recently released from Tora), 3amr 3ezzat, Yehya Megahed, Shahinaz 3abdel Salam, and others.

The lecture will start at 7pm. The Center’s address: 7 Mourad St., Giza.