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Egypt: Spirits of 1968

May 24th, 2008 | Posted in Egypt, Politics, Resistance, Solidarity

Al-Ahram. May 2008.

Photo: Cairo open sky.

In May 1968, student protests in Paris challenged the foundations of the social order in the heart of the industrially advanced West. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates what remains of the wave of student activism that swept the world 40 years ago and recalls events at the time in Egypt…

On 20 February 1968, and while Cairo University students were preparing for a general meeting the following day to discuss the political situation following the June 1967 defeat of the Egyptian army at the hands of the Israelis, news of the lenient court sentences handed down to Air Force commanders for their role in the defeat triggered a wave of angry protests that reverberated across the country.

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Egypt police shoot two Africans trying to cross into Israel

April 21st, 2008 | Posted in Corporate Media, Egypt, Imperialism, Labor, Palestine, Politics, Repression, Solidarity

Haaretz. April 20th, 2008.

Photo: Egypt/’Israel’ border.

Egyptian police shot and wounded two Africans, from Mali and Kenya, who tried to slip over Egypt’s desert frontier into Israel on Sunday, security sources said.

Escalating police violence at the Egypt-Israel border has left 11 would-be infiltrators dead since the start of the year, while scores of others, mostly from Africa, have been detained. Police killed an Eritrean migrant at the border on Thursday.

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Gaza protest draws hundreds

February 10th, 2008 | Posted in Boycott, Corporate Media, Egypt, Palestine, Politics, Quebec, Repression, Solidarity, Tadamon!, War and Terror

Demonstrators march downtown, about 30 groups endorse or participate…

Jan Ravensbergen, the Gazette. Photo: Ion Etxebarria.

Condemnation of a virtual blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel since last June reverberated loudly yesterday along Montreal’s prime downtown shopping strip.

A vocal 90-minute march by more than 230 demonstrators – punctuated with such chants as: “Israel is criminal, Canada is complicit” – broke the weekend-afternoon tranquility of Ste. Catherine St. W.

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