Sunday, February 6, 2011

Egypt Update, “There are no leaders at all.”


"“Right now, it’s all here, protecting Tahrir Square,” said Hisham Kassem, a veteran activist and publisher, who kept a wary eye on barricades built with corrugated tin, wrecked cars and trucks, barrels, buckets filed with sand and metal railing torn from the curb. “We keep it tonight, and tomorrow the whole country is going to come out.” 

"Protesters accused government supporters of trying to block them from delivering supplies to the square, but boxes of water, bananas, yogurt and medicine still made it in. The Internet was working. Volunteers swept the streets, pushing piles of rocks to the curb that looked like bluffs of snow. Doctors staffed first-aid clinics, near graffiti that read, “We are writing the history of a free Egypt,” and men frisked people entering for weapons. " 


"Lobna Elshoky and Nora Abusamra, both 25, swept trash into a plastic bag. “We also brought food and water,” Ms. Abusamra said.
A dentist from Aswan, Mohamed Mustafa, traveled 600 miles to be at the antigovernment protest. “I was expecting to find the Wafd were the leaders, or the Brotherhood were the leaders,” he said, speaking of two of Egypt’s best-known opposition movements. But what he found was far better, he said. “There are no leaders at all.”

" The only real leaders seem to be the young people who have returned to the barricades, again and again, for days now."

“We don’t need a leader,” said one of them, Amira Magdy, 22. “This system is beautiful.”  

“We want the young people to be the ones to form a negotiating committee.”  

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New York Times articles on Egyptian Insurrection/Revolt:
Chaos in the Streets, Anthony Shadid. (An article that addresses the defense of "Free Egypt", Liberation Square, street battles, and autonomy).

Some Fear a Street Movement’s Leaderless Status May Become a Liability, (We Dont). 
(Doctors, construction workers, young, old, poor, professionals, etc... give present the world with both physical and verbal examples and reasons on the merits of autonomy and politicizing your everyday life.)

 Interactive map on The Battle for Liberation Square (Tahrir Square).

Rebel Press: Opposition Says Mubarak Must Go.

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