Record Rally in Tahrir; Egyptian Protests Spread to Gov't Buildings; Labor Unions Launch Strikes

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Egypt's pro-democracy uprising is seizing new momentum one day after hundreds of thousands turned out for one of the largest protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square to date. A gathering of protesters led to the evacuation of the Egyptian cabinet building today, and tent camps are also being set up outside the Egyptian parliament. Egypt's labor movement has launched new strikes across the country, with an estimated 10,000 workers taking part. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous interviews Mona el Seif, a demonstrator outside the Egyptian parliament building.

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• jan 25
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• amy goodman

[ProgressiveAudio]

@theriverQueen01 Um..okay.

[theriverQueen01]

@ProgressiveAudio

To Destroy any Country,you destroy their women First!! That was the agenda Toward EGYPT since 1830, the Corrupted Puppets governments don't represent a whole Country.Despite of the Suffering and struggle that the EGYPTIAN women was had during all the Wars and invasion that EGYPT faced,There were and still until now Many Patriot Educated EGYPTIAN women and many of them are Doctors,Engineers,Professors,S­cientists even Political activists.

[ProgressiveAudio]

@theriverQueen01 Ironically Egypt was a lot more friendly to women in the 20s than it is now.

[theriverQueen01]

@ProgressiveAudio

During the Revolution of 1919 in EGYPT against the British invasion in my country,it was the EGYPTIAN Feminist leader and Nationalist " Hoda Shaarawi" who started to recall the EGYPTIAN women to fight the invasion in their Country and she helped organize the largest women anti- British demonstration,In 1939 the EGYPTIAN Dr.Sameera Moussa was the First Female nuclear Scientist in the Middle East,who killed in US ..it was the EGYPTIAN women who liberated this Country!

[theriverQueen01]

@Hottides

You mean the Same Democracy that George Bush invaded the Iraq by it ! It's NOT the Islam,It's a long History of western colonization and their Puppets in the region that EGYPT and all the Middle East paid its Price and still pay until Now, When Those Foreigner powers stop involving in the interior affairs of EGYPT and stop their agenda in the Middle East , EGYPT will be leader of the region as she was before!

[ProgressiveAudio]

@Hottides Agreed.

[Hottides]

@ProgressiveAudio The greatest obstacle to democracy and progress in Egypt and throughout the Middle East is Islam. Unless Islam is expelled from politics, Egypt will descend into absolute tyranny. 

[ProgressiveAudio]

I dont really like religion or nationalism, but arab nationalism would have been better than whats around now.

[ProgressiveAudio]

@Bander1 Religion is ideology though. Its not very nationalistic either, as theyll turn on their own citizens for having the wrong religion.

[Bander1]

@ProgressiveAudio

Now without ideology to turn to, Arab Nationalism now turns back to religion for a cause celebre or inspiration to fight for.