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Anti-Mubarak protest in Cambridge, Boston
By adamg on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 1:49pm
Young protester. Photo by Jillian York.
John Pouliot tweets on the protest that started in Central Square:
300+ ppl Signs: "Freedom for Egypt" "Down with Mubarak" & in Arabic.
More protesters. Photo by ChinatownKicks.
Protesters in the Back Bay. Photo by Nancy & Ronan.
Scott Eisen took lots of photos of the march. More photos by York.
Top photo used under this Creative Commons license by Jillian York. Second photo copyright ChinatownKicks. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr. Third photo copyright Nancy & Ronan. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
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That should help the cause.
That should help the cause.
it'll get worse
this is constantly on cnn and heating up by the hour, in egypt,
europe, and here in the usa, incl. boston and cambridge, i being
from somerville, davis? the spd wont put up with it or the crowds.
be sure in harvard and the back bay it'll get bloody, and tear
gas canisters fired, and rubber bullets if this doesnt calm down,
which wont be very soon!
No pix, I'm afraid (I'm in a
No pix, I'm afraid (I'm in a basement apartment), but I did hear them passing by earlier.
No doubt...
Mubarak is quaking in his boots....
I would have gone, but..
I'm afraid the dog park won out. Oh, well, I'm sure the holdovers will speak volumes and their stirring rhetoric will more than likely cause worldwide change, as it has so many times in the past.
Closer to 200 than 300.
Closer to 200 than 300.
Maybe you should ask....
that guy who shut down Rise on NYE.
Closer to 150 by my estimate
I count roughly 12 x 12, with a few extra people at the top right. Figuring that some are media and disinterested curious, I'd put the anti-Mubarak crowd estimate at 144 plus or minus, so 150 to be generous. With the Muslim Brotherhood reported to be behind the uprising in Egypt (and behind much terrorism) I hope the intel units were taking copious notes and video footage. Most interesting is the black on white poster that reads "Barack Let Go". Is this crowd on a first name basis with Mr. Obama?
Don't have to be Muslim Brotherhood to oppose a strongman leader
And the tweet RE the 300 ppl is from Central Square.
The picture is from the Back Bay.
Indeed-
Let's hope the US secret police was doing its job of keeping us safe- cause that is what they do- all day long- just trying to keep us safe from terroists- all 800,000 of them and growing. Ooops- time for my cop drama on the TeeVee- I love undercover cops and spies ans stuff- I'm American. I love freedom.
BTW, The Muslim Brotherhood
BTW, The Muslim Brotherhood is not BFF's with Osama and his ilk. Neither does Iran like them very much.
They've trended much too moderate over the years and are consider infidels. But hey, let's not look at shades of grey here.
Nor are they the source or force behind this uprising. As all good politicians, they're trying to attach themselves to the movement. Think of them as the opportunistic old guard GOP riding the teabagger wagon this last election cycle.
Meanwhile, there's bipartisan support to get the MEK off the list of terrorists organizations. Hey, they're not terrorists if they doing our dirty work for us!
And people wonder why "They" hate us.
Tear gas cannister fired into the crowd of protestors by Egyptian police. (check lower right of canister)
Nice to see
Nice to see we're still making something in the USA.
Perhaps . . .
. . . but since "made in the USA" often means just assembled, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the components to those gas canisters were made in Indonesia.
how pleasant
Some families (apparently interspersed with the usual protesting types, judging by the photos) go out to express some solidarity with people risking their lives in Egypt for democracy, and the response here is SO negative? Did the protesters take your lawn-chair saved parking spot, were they riding fixies, going through a red light or interrupt your trek out to WalMart?
Have you seen-
- a protest of anything in this country that isn't mocked or derided? Antiwar protesters? All "hippies" or "leftists". Anyone says anything about the federal reserve system? Gold bug far right lunatic or conspiracy nut. Anyone who raises their head above the fray to say anything in America that falls outside a Dem or GOP DC/New York script is an asshole of course- or in this case- a "Terrorist" that the "authorities" should "monitor". Friggin depressing.
Every man is a island, and
Every man is a island, and every mother's basement a podium...
Ignore them. They'd be trolling Churchill and FDR if this was back in the day.
Today's demonstration
This is probably the first time that many people walked like an Egyptian since the Bangles.
I am now -
- dumber for reading that post- you are awarded no points. And may God have mercy on your soul.
At Least One Attendee
would beg to differ:
Nope-
-she gets no points either.
Yanno-
when you still - post with hyphens at the end of your subject line and hyphens in lieu of commas - we can still tell who you are even when you post anonymously-
Bang! Zoom!
No more calls, folks! We have a winner!
Meanwhile in Egypt, they
Meanwhile in Egypt, they tried to loot the King Tut treasure at the museum in Cairo. Thank God citizens came out to protect the museum. They know what happened in Iraq.
The revolution will be blogged:
@ http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
I was in Central Square when they came by
And the crowd at that point was double the group in the photo- I think that 300 was a pretty fair estimate. Lots of families, mostly Egyptian, but 10-20% caucasian. Cambridge being Cambridge, they got a fair bit of support (honking horns, yells of support).
The guys standing outside the hardware store (looked like Central square homeless, but I could be wrong) were talking about it with surprising authority "yeah, man, Mubarek has been in power for 30 years, it's about time for a change"
I hope that the Egyptian military stays relatively neutral/ non-violent, otherwise it's going to get ugly fast- like Iran a year ago.