These are my links for April 3rd through April 5th: Palestinian teen in critical condition after being shot in head by Israeli forces – International Middle East Media Center – Less than lethal? The Costs of Owning a Car – Wheels Blog – NYTimes.com – Nearly $9,000/year for a car …
Tag: strikes
More on the “General Strikes”—مزيد من الكلام عن الإضرابات العامة
ّI just read a few of my friend Daïkha Dridi’s articles and they made me a bit depressed. Mostly because, even after all this time with Arabic, I could largely read them in French, even with my 17-year-old high-school French that I never practiced with actual French-speakers. I could skim …
Facebookists for Regime Change—الفيسبوكيون لتغيير النظام
Collection of Facebook banners by Sami Ben Gharbia/Global Voices Advocacy This article was commissioned for Is Greater Than When Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old Harvard drop-out, launched Facebook in 2004, he could not have imagined that one day his project would become the primary organizing tool for a vast movement of …
May Day, May Day—This is Egypt—عيد العمال في مصر
This article was commissioned for Is Greater Than In this year’s May Day address to the nation, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised government workers a 30% salary increase. This came a day after the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest parliamentary opposition group, unexpectedly called upon its members to participate in a …