Posts Tagged ‘Britain’

VIDEO – Huge public-sector strike hits the UK

From N30 to Tahrir…

Phil Marfleet – Understanding the Arab revolutions

#OccupyLondon VIDEO – Thousands descend on London Stock Exchange

Anathema – Vincent & Daniel Cavanagh – Dreaming Light (Live on BBC Merseyside) Acoustic

Mogwai – Take me somewhere nice

Anathema – Kingdom

The People of Edco Vs. BP حملة أهالي إدكو ضد شركة البترول البريطانية

Anathema – Crestfallen

Ismail Marzouk’s family call for investigation into their son’s death

The family of our Ismail Marzouk went yesterday to the Public Prosecutor’s office, filing a report against the British company, Blue O Two, accusing the latter of negligence and absence of industrial safety standards that led to their son’s death.

On 9 September, Ismail’s family will join a protest in Hurghada planned by the divers to call for improving work conditions and enforcing safety measures on the tourism/diving companies. Rest in peace Ismail…

Western Mubaraks

Britain threatens to shut down social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, or banning suspected “rioters” from using them. In New York, the “NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.” While in California…

A rail transit provider in the United States disabled mobile phone services to prevent a planned protest on Thursday, attracting criticism and unflattering comparisons to crackdowns on dissent in the Middle East.
Demonstrators in northern California’s Bay Area had planned a protest to condemn the shooting death of Charles Hill, who was killed on July 3 after Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officers responded to complaints about a drunk man at a station in the city of San Francisco.

Mubarak and Adly are indeed an inspiration to their counterparts in the West.