Saturday, January 29-ATLANTA DEMONSTRATION IN SOLIDARTY WITH THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE

TOMORROW:ATLANTA DEMONSTRATION IN SOLIDARTY WITH THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE

ATLANTA DEMONSTRATION IN SOLIDARTY WITH THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE   Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm    In front of CNN Center, 190 Marietta Street, NW, Atlanta, GA       A demonstration will be held on Saturday in downtown Atlanta in support of the brave Egyptian people who are fighting for their freedom, dignity, and rights. Organizers hope to show the Egyptian people that American people are behind their struggle. In addition, the protest aims to expose the dire situation in Egypt, and to encourage the U.S. media to expand their coverage of growing movements for freedom and democracy in North Africa.   UPDATE ON EGYPTIAN PROTESTS   Over the last three days the Egyptian people have taken to the streets to show their displeasure with the government of President Hosni Mubarak. Demonstrators have staged peaceful protests, exercising their basic right to expression, to demand freedom from an oppressive dictatorial regime. These efforts have been met with violent resistance at the hands of the state security apparatus as the Mubarak government attempts to subdue protestors by force. Furthermore, in anticipation of a countrywide peaceful demonstration scheduled for Friday, January 28, at 1:00pm, after Friday prayers, the government has now imposed a full internet blockade extending to all parts of the country. There are now predictions that mobile phone networks and text messaging will also be blocked, such that no information can come out of the country, informing the outside world of the situation on the ground. These actions on the part of the government suggest an extremely concerning scenario in which all information is blocked, allowing security forces to quell protests by any means necessary, including use of extreme force.   Suez city is already under siege. The government has cut off the water supply and electricity. People, including children and elderly, are suffering there now. Hospital patients cannot get urgent medical care. Injured protestors are lying in the streets and the riot police are preventing people from helping them.  The families of the killed protestors cannot get the bodies of their sons to bury them.  The situation is much the same in north Saini (El-Sheikh zoyad city) and in western Egypt (Al-salom). The riot police are cracking down on protestors in Ismailia, Alexandria, Fayoum, Shbin Elkoum, and in Cairo, the capital. The government is preparing to crack down on the protestors in all Egyptian cities. They are using tear gas bombs, rubber and plastic bullets, chemicals like diluted mustard gas against protestors.  Several protestors have been killed when the armored vehicles of the riot police hit them. Officials in plainclothes are carrying blades and knives to intimidate protestors. All this has been taken place over the past three days in response to peaceful demonstrations in Cairo and other cities.   Egypt is the second largest foreign recipient of our taxpayer money, billions of dollars annually. This aid from the U.S. has been used to maintain the current dictatorship against the will of its own people. It is strongly in the interest of the United States to pressure the Mubarak government to exercise maximum restraint, refrain from any violence against its people and to allow the people of Egypt the freedom of expression that they deserve.   TRUE DEMOCRACY AND SELF-DETERMINATION FOR EGYPT PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! COME TO THE DEMONSTRATION TOMORROW AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT