[OccupyComms] Fwd: Urgent From Tahrir: Join our struggle for the survival of the revolution

[Occupy Newcastle]

We'd like to propose a united day of solidarity in light of these events..

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew Embry <mattkembry at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:45 PM
Subject: Urgent From Tahrir: Join our struggle for the survival of the
revolution
To: mattkembry at yahoo.com


hello friends...please spread this urgent message from Egypt; completely
withdraw support from
                     and bring down the mass murderers who run this nation
(and the world)...this revolution
                     will continue if we radicalize ourselves...jail all
government sickos!

                                        best, stay safe, DJ Matter






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From: Comrades from Cairo <comradesfromcairo at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:06 AM
Subject: Urgent From Tahrir: Join our struggle for the survival of the
revolution
To: comradesfromcairo at gmail.com


http://mosireen.org/?p=385

We are in the midst of a decisive battle in the face of a potentially
terminal crackdown. Over the past 72 hours the army has launched a
ceaseless assault on revolutionaries in Tahrir Square and squares across
Egypt. Over 2000 of us have been injured. More than 30 of us have been
murdered. Just in Cairo alone. In the last 48 hours.

But the revolutionaries keep coming. Hundreds of thousands are in Tahrir
and in other squares across the country. We are facing  down their gas,
cudgels, shotguns and machine-gun fire. The army and police attack again
and again, but we are holding the lines, holding them back. The dead and
wounded are carried away on foot or motorbikes and others take their place.


The violence will escalate – for WE WILL NOT MOVE. The junta does not want
to give up its power. We want the junta gone.


The future of the revolution hangs in the balance; those of us in the
square are ready to die for freedom and social justice. The butchers
attacking us are willing to kill us to stay in control.


This is not about elections or a constitution, neither of which will change
the authoritarianism and violence coming down around us. Neither is this is
about a so-called “transition” to democracy that has seen the consolidation
of a military junta and the betrayal of the revolution by political forces.
This is about a revolution, a complete revolution. The people demand the
fall of the regime, and will stop at nothing short of that to achieve their
freedom.


Foreign governments are paying lip-service to ‘human rights’ while they
deal with the junta, shaking hands and legitimizing them with empty
rhetoric. The US is still sending $1.2 billion in military aid to the
Egyptian military. The army and police rely on tear gas, bullets and
weapons from abroad. No doubt their stock has been replenished by US and
other governments over the last nine months. Stock will run low again.





We ask you to take action:

·     Occupy / shut-down Egyptian embassies worldwide. Now they represent
the junta ; reclaim them for the Egyptian people.

·     Shut down the arms dealers. Do not let them make it, ship it.

·     Shut down the part of your government dealing with the Egyptian junta.

The revolution continues, because we have no other choice.



>From Tahrir Square / 22 November / 09:00 am

Mosireen, Comrades from Cairo, Defend the Revolution


Links:

·      A photograph <http://yfrog.com/nu69ljej> of US-Made tear gas
canisters, featuring the address of the manufacturer, Combined Tactical
Systems, in Jamestown, Pennsylvania

·      Video <http://youtu.be/Fr2-VlldcuE> of Egyptian army soldiers
dumping the bodies of the murdered into trash piles

Please email us <defendtherevolution at gmail.com>with details, so we can
share them here in Tahrir
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