Protest outside Egyptian embassy tomorrow [in Dublin]

einshteen

Is anyone heading to this?

http://irishantiwar.org/node/1079

IRISH ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT TO HOLD PROTEST AT EGYPTIAN EMBASSY IN SOLIDARITY WITH DEMOCRACY PROTESTERS
Submitted by webmaster on Thu, 27/01/2011 - 12:41. Press-Release
Press Release - Jan 27th

The Irish Anti War-Movement is holding a picket of the Egyptian Embassy, Clyde Road. Ballsbridge. Dublin 4, at 2.30pm on Friday 28th January in solidarity with protesters in Egypt, demanding democracy and an end to the dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak.

The Dublin protest was called following yesterday's events in Egypt, where tens of thousands of protestors calling for the resignation of President Murbarak have been met with tear gas, killings and imprisonment. Protesters who jammed Cairo's huge Tahrir Square yesterday participated in the biggest political demonstration seen in the Egyptian capital in more than 30 years.

The Irish Anti War movement has condemned the killing of at least five people by Egyptian state's security forces and the imprisonmemt of hundreds of pro-democracy protesters.

The Dublin protest will coincide with massive protests on the same day planned in Egypt itself and in a host of other countries across the region.

IAWM Chairperson, Richard Boyd Barrett said:

"We call on people in this country who support the struggle for democracy in Egypt and for the peoples across the region to come and join our solidarity picket.

This brutal suppression of the democratic right to demonstrate in Egypt is part of the same authoritarianism that has closed its borders to the people of Gaza. Egypt’s silence on the rights of Palestinians is what makes Mubarak’s regime such an important ally for the US in the region."

Egypt's inspiring democracy movement has put a spotlight on the U.S.-backed police state ruled by Hosni Mubarak, the 83-year-old dictator despised for presiding over a society in which a tiny minority has amassed enormous wealth while more than 23 percent of the population of 79 million lives under the official poverty line. The resurgence of Egyptian workers' strikes and protests is now feeding into the pro-democracy movement.

It will be interesting to see whether those voices who talked so much about democracy to justify the US bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan, will support now a real people's movement for demcracy against a US backed dictatorship."

biko

Are you?

Dunjohn

I have other plans. And a general dislike for the Galway Alliance Against Israel War. Otherwise, I'd be tempted.

Not sure what the aims of the protest are, though. The Egyptian government is already showing a complete disregard for the people power in its own country, they're not going to be intimidated by two dozen bobble-hatted banner bunnies in D4.

Storm 10

Why would anyone go its not going to make a blind bit of difference to anyone if you went, most would people there dont even know where Ireland is.

No doubt they will march to the American Embassy as well as are always blamed for everything that happens in the middle east.

Columc

Whats the point of any of Galway alliance against war protests? they leech onto the current topical fiasco and act like they care, disregarding anyone that have any opions other wise and do some idiotc stunt.

apoeiguq3094y

I think we should form "The Galway Alliance Against The Galway Alliance Against Israel War" or GAAGAAW for short.

Columc

Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
GAAGAAW Ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

skelliser

irish anti war group?!

since when was there a war going on in egypt?

biko

In short: The Tunisia protesters success in toppling the president there are spreading to Egypt.
But Tunisia isn't as important internationally as Egypt so if the **** hits the fan there it may send massive ripples throughout MENA, Europe and Africa.
US is watching very closely...

mikom

Can't go, I've that Bangles reunion concert on the same night.

Amhran Nua

Columc wrote: »

Whats the point of any of Galway alliance against war protests? they leech onto the current topical fiasco and act like they care, disregarding anyone that have any opions other wise and do some idiotc stunt.

Its all part of the Communist/Marxist handbook. Literally in this case.

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

This is why they and the rest of the far left latch on to anything going, regardless of how much damage they do it in the meantime.