Film – The Arab Awakening – Tweets from Tahrir – Part I

VIDEO – Interview with @aliyaalwi

Interview with translator Aliya Alwi, following her release from police custody pending investigations into bogus charges, fabricated by the authorities, accusing her together with an Australian journalist and a US student of distributing money to street children agitating the latter to throw rocks at the police!

VIDEO – Interview with @austingmackell

Released Australian journalist Austin G Mackell speaks about his ordeal with the Egyptian police and military, while reporting on the labor movement in Mahalla.

Mohamed Mahmoud St residents, shop owners bring down army wall سكان وأصحاب محلات ش محمد محمود يزيلون جدار الجيش

On 17 February 2012, the local residents and shop owners in Mohamed Mahmoud Street hired a crane on their private expense, to remove the wall erected by the Egyptian army to block protesters during the November 2011 uprising.

The shop owners were not comfortable getting filmed and they asked me to stop filming, which I did. They spoke of “their interests and livelihood destroyed because of the wall.” Their unease with the filming clearly demonstrates this act was done without permission from the army necessarily.

The state run unions, loyal servants of SCAF

In the past, the state backed unions played a central role in controlling and/or mobilizing the working class on behalf of Mubarak. Today, the continue to be the loyal servants of the regime and its new masters, the army junta.

The state-run federation general unions incited against the February 11th general strike calls in the media and workplaces. The picture below I took during the 10 February march on the Ministry of Defense is just one example.

The state-run public transport workers distributed banners and forced drivers on stick them on their buses, denouncing the strike calls. I and other protesters had a chat with the driver above, and he assured us he had nothing to do with this banner and he was coerced by his managers into sticking it on the bus.

VIDEO – SCAF’s business empire

AUDIO – 8 Feb KPFA Interview

#Piggipedia – SS Lt. Colonel Hani Talaat رائد أمن الدولة هاني طلعت

From SS Officers

I haven’t had proper time to continue working on the Piggipedia files, but here is a face which popped up while I was reading some articles about torture, and I recalled having more pictures of the same officer on the SS Nasr City DVDs.

From SS Officers

SS Lt. Colonel Hani Talaat, also known as “Gaafar,” worked at the dissolved SS, as part of its “Central Investigations Unit.” His name was mentioned in the case of Sayyed Bilal’s death under torture, and reportedly still keeps his job at Homeland Security, the successor of SS.

From SS Officers

VIDEOS – Greek anti-capitalist revolt

VIDEO – AUC Strike Talk

My talk to the local and foreign students and faculty, at the American University in Cairo, 12 February 2012.