SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH IMPRISONED EGYPTIAN DEMOCRACY PROTESTORS
On the one-year anniversary of Black Wednesday in Cairo
And in solidarity with demonstrations in London, Paris, Seoul, and New York

details at forsoothsayer’s.

Location: Egypt Air Office, 151 Bloor St. West (East of Avenue Rd.)
Date: Thursday May 25, 2006
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
For more information contact the Toronto Egyptian Solidarity Campaign at: torontoesc@yahoo.ca

You’re very good to me — alas, 2 is not 4.

The first Canadian female combat soldier to be killed in action since the Second World War. (cbc)

Meanwhile, or more acurately a few hours later, members of the Canadian Parliament voted (149-145) to approve a two-year extension of the Canadian military mission to Afghanistan. (cbc)

Why? The simplest answer is -without having to get into too much politics and/or ethics- he would’ve done the same for me.

From Egypt:

Some governEgyptments think they can trampEgyptle the rights of those that oppEgyptose them and noEgyptone will notEgyptice. Well, that fact is changEgypting and we are changEgypting it.

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The story:

Egyptian security officials arrested 11 more political reform activists, including an award-winning blogger, Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. This brings to more than 100 the number of people detained over the past two weeks for exercising their rights to freedom of assembly and expression.

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They initially faced charges of blocking traffic, but the authorities later transferred their cases to state security prosecutors. Yesterday, authorities extended the detention of 28 activists arrested on April 26 and 27 for another 15 days. All those arrested between April 24 and May 7 for demonstrating now face charges of “insulting the president,” “spreading false rumors,” and “disturbing public order” under the parallel state security legal system set up under the Emergency Law.

Now, by show of hands, who amongst you, Egyptians, has not indulged recently in at least one of those “charges”? … Certainly, not I!