Posts Tagged ‘النيل’

Nile Cotton Co. Strikers عمال النيل لحلج الأقطان

The Nile Cotton Co strikers staging a sit-in, downtown Cairo…

Strikers United الاضرابات توحد المسلمين والأقباط

Coptic workers striking hand in hand with their Muslim comrades, Downtown Cairo…

Portraits: Nile Cotton Co Strikers بورتريهات: عمال النيل لحلج الأقطان

The Nile Cotton Co strikers staging a sit-in, downtown Cairo…

أمن الدولة يعتدي على عمال حلج الأقطان ويفض اعتصامهم أمام مجلس الشعب بالقوة

تقرير من مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية عن قمع اعتصام عمال شركة النيل لحلج الأقطان…

Police crack down on Nile Cotton Co Workers بواسل الداخلية يعتدون بالضرب على عمال النيل لحلج الأقطان

What started as a good day ended in shit! The police intimidated journalists and photographers covering the Nile Cotton workers sit-in by the parliament, before cracking down on the strikers, using sticks and batons, suspending their sit-in by brutal force…

I’m finally home, but I’m a bit tired so I’ll snooze shewaya, but will upload more pix and blog later tonight…

And to the Sheriff of the Sayyeda Zeinab Police Station, who gave us a long patriotic speech, promising the journalists leaving the sit-in that nothing was gonna happen to the strikers: You are a fucking disgusting liar, and hopefully next time I’ll snap a picture of your ugly face to add to the Piggipedia…

وقفة احتجاجية لعمال النيل للحلج وللأقطان أمام مجلس الشعب غداً الأحد ١١ ص

The Nile Cotton Textiles Co strikers are demonstrating tomorrow Sunday 11am, in front of the Parliament…