sabotabby | Egypt links (Reply)

Try to imagine a situation where two million people gather in your city to protest something. Try to imagine this happening in theoretically a democracy, where the army and police are unlikely to open fire on the demonstrators, and where the government might at least pretend to listen to the demands.

Two million people are in Cairo's Tahrir Square, with around 8 million people protesting across the country. This, despite the fact that 150 people have already been killed. And whatever our government and the U.S. government says, Egypt's no democracy (though the military has said that it won't fire on the demonstrators).

[Photo of the massive amount of people gathered in Cairo. See those tiny things? Each of those tiny things is a person.]

It's amazing to see this happen. Al Jazeera has the most reliable coverage, including a video that shows the sheer scale of the demos.

If you haven't seen it, check out laura.fo by LJ's

slit.

imagines has an excellent links round-up here and here.

Access Now is helping Egyptians circumvent firewalls, and you can go here to find out how to run a Tor bridge. (Thanks

smhwpf and

secretsoflife!)