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Hong Kong Protests 2019
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Category Archives: uprisings
Guy Fawkes mask seen in global protests
many global protests fall 2019
Recent global protests about cost of living
Egyptians protesting Sisi Corruption 9-19
September 20, 2019 Hundreds of Egyptians poured through the streets of Cairo, chanting slogans including “Leave, Sisi!” and demanding the “fall of the regime.”
At least 74 people were arrested after clashes between the crowds and police in the capital, a security source said.
The protests came after Mohamed Aly, an exiled businessman and opponent of Sisi posted calls online for demonstrations against Sisi.
He upped the pressure Saturday in an expletive-filled video, imploring Egyptians to join a “million-man march” next Friday and to fill all “major squares” of the country.
“This is a people’s revolution… We have to link up together as one… and organize going down to the major squares,” he said in a Facebook appeal to his followers.
The construction contractor has been posting videos that have gone viral since early September, accusing Sisi and the military of rampant corruption.
new international book “Women’s Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century,” chapter on young Egyptian feminists by Gayle Kimball
Women’s Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Women’s Lives in Modern Times Edited by Kristen Zaleski, Annalisa Enrile, Eugenia L. Weiss, and Xiying Wang. Oxford University Press, October 2019
Chapter on “The Silence of Women’s Voices in Egypt” by Gayle Kimball
“Women’s Voices in Egypt and Globally” reports on Egyptian feminist activism to make their experiences and thoughts heard and empowered. The chapter quotes brave women who spoke up for gender equality from 1919 to 2018, in opposition to the censorship of state feminism, Islamic extremists, or traditional beliefs that women’s place is in the home subordinant to her father or husband. Following Feminist Standpoint Theory, the author interviewed grassroots feminist organizers, including a teenager who participated in the front lines of the revolution of January 2011 that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Interviewees are currently pessimistic about freedom under current president General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi whose government jails activists, even for social media posts. However, groups like Girls Revolution and Young Egyptian Feminists League rely on the relative safety of social media to lobby for equal rights. The Internet and the cell phone provide women with the ability to organize from the safety of their bedrooms, without scrutiny from police or family—a global phenomenon. With increased access to education and the Internet, a “social nonmovement” is occurring, described by Iranian Asef Bayat as lifestyle rebellions that gradually create real change.
Millions Strike against Climate Change, Including Chico, CA organized by Sunrise Movement, 350.org, etc.
