{"id":47904,"date":"2011-10-25T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=47904"},"modified":"2011-10-25T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T20:02:30","slug":"on-the-occupation-beat-reinforcements-from-tahrir-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/on-the-occupation-beat-reinforcements-from-tahrir-square\/","title":{"rendered":"On the #Occupation beat: reinforcements from Tahrir Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/10\/25\/story\/from_tahrir_to_wall_street_egyptian\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Occupy Wall Street received a surprise visit Monday from several leading Egyptian activists, including 26-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz. She is one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, which is the group credited with helping to organize the January 25 protests that eventually toppled the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak. <\/p>\n<p>While the months succeeding Mubarak&#8217;s ouster have not been smooth (I recently read of resumed violence by Muslim Egyptians against the country&#8217;s Coptic Christian minority, despite unity between the two groups during the protests), Egypt&#8217;s transformation is far from complete. I believe Planet Waves has observed before that having the Uranus-Pluto square heat up via revolutions in what is considered the cradle of humanity seems like a pretty telling sign &#8212; and the world is a lot smaller than it was in that infancy. Said Mahfouz in New York yesterday, &#8220;Many of U.S. residents were in solidarity with us. I am here to be in solidarity and support the Wall Street Occupy protesters, to say to them, \u2019the power to the people,&#8217; and to keep it on and on, and they will succeed in the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in California, Occupy Oakland was rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/10\/25\/dozens_arrested_at_occupy_oakland_as\">brutally raided by police<\/a>. Authorities say about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-201_162-20125200\/riot-police-arrest-occupy-oakland-protesters\/\">75 people were arrested<\/a>, after police fired teargas and &#8220;beanbag rounds.&#8221; And as if cued up by Jen Sorensen&#8217;s Slowpoke cartoon we ran yesterday, Greg Palast investigates the story behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/10\/25\/goldman_sachs_v_occupy_wall_street\">Goldman Sachs\u2019 recent decision<\/a> to pull out of a fundraiser for the Lower East Side People\u2019s Federal Credit Union in New York City after it learned the event was honoring the protesters at Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupy Wall Street received a surprise visit Monday from several leading Egyptian activists, including 26-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz. She is one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, which is the group credited with helping to organize the January 25 protests that eventually toppled the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak. While the months &#8230; <a title=\"On the #Occupation beat: reinforcements from Tahrir Square\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/on-the-occupation-beat-reinforcements-from-tahrir-square\/\" aria-label=\"More on On the #Occupation beat: reinforcements from Tahrir Square\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[762],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}