Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT
I’ve been following the Occupy Wall Street
movement in the United States intermittently but with great interest. I
am deeply pleased to see people in my country finally express some
indignation (indignation that, unlike the Tea Party’s, isn’t high-jacked
by racism and right-wing millionaires) over the way financial interests
have dominated and perverted our political system. And challenging the
insidious restrictions on the use of public space and the freedom of
assembly and expression that have proliferated since 9/11 (regarding
which, please, please watch this video by genius British activists). I’m also fascinated by the fact that the protests in the US and in Europe are so clearly inspired by the so-called Arab Spring.
LIVING WITH THE MARTYRS
ReplyDeleteBy Alaa Abdel Fattah, al-Shorouk, 20 October 2011
A couple days spent at the morgue. A couple days amid the corpses of those struggling to preserve their martyr status, fighting against the Mubarak regime in its entirety; not just against Mubarak’s military who ran them over, not just against Mubarak’s media machine which denied them the honor of martyrdom and turned them into mere killers, and not just against Mubarak’s judicial system which denied them their rights.