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National Lawyers Guild International Committee Condemns Egyptian Military Violation of Human Rights

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The National Lawyers Guild International Committee joins fifteen Egyptian human rights organizations in condemning violence and other political repression committed, and/or acquiesced to, by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) against civilians and activists, including recent attacks on protesters in Abbasiya Square, near the Ministry of Defense. [FN: Abbasiya Events a Continuation of SCAF’s Systematic Violations of Human Rights in the Transitional Period, 7 May 2012]

As noted in the above statement, since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak, “hundreds have been killed and thousands injured and detained” by SCAF. Human Rights Watch and other international agencies have made similar findings. Since April 28 alone, dozens of civilians have been killed or injured during attacks on the mass sit-in at Abbasiya Square; hundreds more have been summarily tried and detained by military courts.

As a U.S.-based non-governmental organization, we are particularly concerned that, as during the Mubarak era, Egyptians demanding democracy are being killed, maimed and jailed at the hands of $1.5 billion in lethal tear gas, bullets and other weapons provided by our own government to the Egyptian military.

To examine such complicity, the NLG IC recently coordinated a fact-finding delegation of attorneys, academics and activists to Egypt; their report is forthcoming. Meanwhile, we endorse demands by the above organizations for respect of both Egyptian and international human rights law. We also call on the U.S. government to immediately stop providing the Egyptian military with the money and weapons used to violate such law.

Hundreds Attend Solidarity Actions Marking Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution; Remain Committed to Ongoing Struggle

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Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution
Hundreds Attend Solidarity Actions Marking Anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution; Remain Committed to Ongoing Struggle

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Media Contacts: Hoda Mitwally (English), 848.667.1656, Alya El Hosseiny (Arabic), 347.369.8067

New York, NY, January 27, 2012: Since ousting Hosni Mubarak last year in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Egyptians have remained steadfast to see the completion of their demands. They have returned to the streets, struck their workplaces, and risked their lives again and again in pursuit of bread, freedom and social justice. In retaliation, the successor and remainder of the Mubarak regime — the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) — has used a combination of co-optative and repressive tactics, including trying civilians in military courts, beating, torturing, and murdering activists on the streets and in prison, and launching brutal misogynistic attacks on female protesters — largely paid by and with the diplomatic support of the U.S. government.

Following months of demonstrations and campaigns in solidarity with the Egyptian revolution, activists in the New York area formed the Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution.  To commemorate the one year anniversary, the coalition has organized a series of events taking place between January and February 11th.  These events are meant to reflect on the revolution thus far; serve as a platform to engage the American public to better understand the past and current state of affairs in Egypt, with a specific focus on building awareness of U.S. involvement in the socio-political and economic atmosphere that exists in the region; and how US involvement threatens to derail revolutionary endeavors. These events and actions will also support campaigns and calls from fellow activists on the ground in Egypt.

The series of solidarity events launched with a teach-in on January 19th co-sponsored by the Ad Hoc Coalition with the Occupy Wall Street Global Justice Working Group, the War Resisters League and Adalah-NY, on US-funded and supplied tear gas used against Egyptian protesters.  Following on January 21st, the Coalition was vital to mobilizing the Times Square rally as part of the international day of action in support of the Egyptian revolution.  The primary event consisted of a successful two-part panel series.  Today on January 27th, the Coalition stands in solidarity with the demonstration against the NYPD’s “Stop and Frisk” policy noting the parallels between militarization and repression at home and abroad.  The Coalition will also announce further actions shortly.

The Coalition’s two-part panel series was organized to go beyond the mainstream media’s reporting of the revolution and conventional misconceptions, shedding light on the underlying causes and current contours of the revolution. The first panel’s focus was “Class, Power and the Roots of the Revolution” with speakers Timothy Mitchell, Omar El-Shafei, Heba Gowayed, and Menna Khalil, who examined the causes of inequality and exploitation, workers’ revolts, and the interaction with the millions in the squares of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, Mahallah al-Kubra, and other cities, as well as drawing parallels between Egypt’s labor movement and the broader struggle of the 99% against the global 1%.  The second panel’s focus was “The Rise and Imminent Fall of Egypt’s Military,” with Zachary Lockman, Nancy Elshami, Ashraf Khalil, and Samah Selim. They provided an in-depth analysis of SCAF’s role in Egypt’s economy, the role of U.S. military aid, and connections with previous regimes. Moreover, they assessed tactics used by SCAF to maintain its power; popular illusions held about the military, and what its role been in regional strategic as well as political conflicts; as well as how SCAF’s current violence manifested against the Egyptian people, especially women, and in what ways are they resisting.

Over 100 people attended each panel and heard scholars and activists present a comprehensive overview of the revolution and its origins. The series was co-sponsored by the Network of Arab American Professionals – NY (NAAP-NY).  Attendees at the panels left with a heightened commitment to support efforts here in New York for the ongoing revolution.

The Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution is comprised of Egyptians in the diaspora and Egyptians abroad, as well as solidarity activists committed to supporting those in Egypt in their revolutionary struggle. Building on the success of its recent events, the Coalition will continue efforts to stop US military aid and export of tear gas and other weapons; to organize mass solidarity with victims of Egyptian military/government repression; and to educate about the realities of Egyptian society and politics.  The Coalition commits to continuing its efforts in solidarity with activists in Egypt until the revolution is complete.

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Sign On: Solidarity with the Real Egyptian Revolution

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The Ad-Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution endorses the following petition in solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution. To sign on and join thousands around the world, visit http://egyptsolidaritycampaign.org/.

Solidarity with the Real Egyptian Revolution

One year ago brave activists in Egypt electrified the world. Sweeping into Tahrir Square in Cairo, and similar sites in other cities and towns, protesting outside government offices, and striking for living wages, workers’ rights and against corrupt managers, they overturned a dictator and drove forward a process of mass democratic upheaval that has been dubbed “the Arab Spring.” In the process, Egypt’s revolution became an inspiration to millions around the world.

Every step of the way, millions of ordinary people struck blows for women’s rights, independent unions, democracy and social justice. But every step they were also brutalized by a military apparatus intent on blocking real change. Even after the dictator, President Mubarak, was toppled, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has continued to rule via “state of emergency” law, while responding to the revolutionary process with arrests, torture, beatings, and killings. Since Mubarak’s fall, as many as 14,000 people have been subjected to military tribunals and the beatings and torture associated with them. As a result, one year later, the revolution hangs in the balance.

In recent months, attacks by SCAF on youth, women, and workers have become more ominous. Ongoing violence against women protesters has intensified. The army has been clearly linked to assaults on Coptic Christians, twenty-four of whom were murdered in October of last year. Then, in December, an alarming escalation in army attacks on peaceful protesters created more martyrs of the revolution. Meanwhile, youth activists associated with the April 6th Movement have been arrested and charged with insulting the army and trying to overthrow the state – merely for distributing anti-SCAF posters. Simultaneously, SCAF and the Ministry of the Interior launched a threatening smear campaign against activists of the socialist left, and sent soldiers to raid the offices of seventeen NGOs. In these and many other ways, SCAF has made clear that it does not intend to give up power.

But courageous Egyptians are refusing to stand down in the face of these attacks. November and December saw huge popular mobilizations, teachers’ strikes, an inspiring 10,000 strong women’s march in Cairo, and a gathering of 50,000 in Tahrir Square to inaugurate the new year. These actions are a source of great hope for the future of Egypt’s popular revolution.

As writers, trade unionists, organizers, scholars, and activists who have supported Egypt’s democratic revolution we refuse to be silent in the face of these assaults, especially in light of the silence of our governments. We publicly condemn all attacks on freedom of speech, assembly, religion and association in Egypt. We call for the release of all political prisoners. We condemn the actions of foreign governments such as those of the US and Britain that hypocritically mouth support for the Egyptian revolution while supplying SCAF with arms and tear gas to crush protests. And we proclaim our solidarity with the democratic, trade union, women’s, youth and socialist groups who insist that the Egyptian Revolution must continue on the road to genuine democracy and social justice.

ANHRI: Authority’s campaign aims to silence human rights voices

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The following statement is republished from the website of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information:

Human Rights Movement Founded to Peacefully Struggle against Imperialism and Tyranny

Cairo- 8 January 2012

The undersigned Human Rights Organizations state that “the campaign launched presently against civil society organizations working in human rights field, by Egyptian authorities accompanied by some formal and state- linked independent media- in which authorities do their best starting with suing organizations in a case known as the foreign fund case, through raiding 17 offices of Egyptian and international human rights organizations, and finally attacking the whole of the civil society through some media channels to mislead public opinion about their being foreign funded entities intended to carry out external agendas- is nothing but attempts aim chiefly at silencing civil society organizations and averting them from continuing their relentless peaceful struggle against humiliating Egyptian citizens and discarding their human rights on the hands of the ruling authorities and their security services. Such campaign could also be seen as a punishment to the organizations for playing an active role during Egypt’s revolution in exposing the police state practices which dedicated all its powers to protect the head of state at the expense of Egyptians’ dignity and rights”

The undersigned human rights organization assert that the purpose of such prearranged campaign launched by the military ruling institution is to conceal the crimes it has committed against Egyptian citizens and its use of excessive force in facing peaceful protests, particularly as HROs were of the first voices to censure the Military Council and denounce the human rights violations committed in breaking up Tahrir square sit-in on 9 March 2011 by using excessive force, and have been holding that position since then.

In this context, the undersigned organizations like to point to the long history of peaceful struggle driven by the Arab Human Rights Movement with the Egyptian movement in its heart, which enabled organizations, through their practical stands in confronting assaults on freedoms and human rights, to face the aggressive campaigns launched several times previously by the state security services during Mubarak regime to defame HROs and depict them to the public as an American scheme. The present campaign launched by the current authority will definitely fail its purpose as did the previous ones.

The undersigned organizations also stress that they will never forget the origins of their foundation as part of the Arab Human Rights Movement founded in the beginning of the eighties to stand in the face of foreign imperialism as one of the consequences of Beirut’s fall under Zionist occupation and the significances of this to human rights, as well as its historical positions in denouncing Baghdad siege, rejecting the economic penalties imposed on it, backing the Palestinian uprising in 2000, in addition to the significant role it played in the World Conference against Racism in 2001 and condemning the American war on Iraq after Baghdad fall.

The Arab and Egyptian human rights movement as it continues to play its patriotic role in confronting American and Israeli assaults, is also persistent to continue facing political tyranny and defending citizens’ human dignity and rights no matter which entity commits the violations, and no matter whether the abusing government is Arab or non- Arab.

The organizations also assert on their relentlessness in continuing their peaceful and organized struggle towards the protection and respect of human dignity and human civil and political rights despite all the defamation campaigns and all the attempts to decline their role.

The signed organizations

- The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

- Hisham Mubarak Law Center (HMLC)

- The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

- El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence (Al-Nadeem)

- Arab Penal Reform Organization (APRO)

- Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners (HRAAP)

- Association of Freedom of Thinking and Expression (AFTE)

- Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)

- Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies (CCHRS)

 

Also available in:العربية

Egypt civil society condemns military attacks on human rights organizations

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The following Conclusions were distributed by 31 Egyptian civil society organizations following a raid on civil society organizations by the military forces on December 29, 2011. The statement is available at this link in Arabic:

Conclusions of the civil society press conference

The undersigned organizations condemn the broad, ongoing attack on human rights organizations and civil society, which today included raids on several rights organizations that actively work to promote democracy. Police and military forces, accompanied by members of the Public Prosecution, stormed the offices of the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession, the Budgetary and Human Rights Observatory, and other international human rights and pro-democracy institutions.

This serious step marks the beginning of a security campaign that is expected to affect dozens of advocacy groups, and is part of a broader campaign launched by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to smear and stigmatize all rights activists and numerous forces involved in the January 25 revolution.

The undersigned organizations believe that the aim of this unprecedented campaign is to cover up the SCAF’s failures in the transitional period and harass political groups, activists, and rights advocates who have dared criticize its policies, expose the shameful abuses that have taken place under its administration, and in some cases successfully pursued legal action against military violations before the courts.

We regret to say that with each passing day, the SCAF proves not only its hostility to the fundamental goals of the Egyptian revolution and the sacrifices of its martyrs, but demonstrates its deeply held desire to settle accounts with political and advocacy groups that played a prominent role in ushering in the revolution or during the uprising itself, or that have created and promoted programs with the objective of building a new political system on the ruins of the Mubarak regime and its authoritarian methods, which the SCAF is now reproducing in an even uglier, more dangerous form.

The undersigned organizations stress that the growing repression will not deter them from continuing in their mission to defend victims of human rights abuses and expose violations against them. We firmly believe that the support of the forces of the revolution that stand with us against repression and affronts to human dignity, as well as international solidarity springing from a common belief in the nobility and universality of human rights principles, will only increase our commitment to our mission, our resolve not to betray the voices of the victims, and our determination to see the hand of justice hold accountable those responsible for human rights crimes, whether during or after the Mubarak era.

List of Signatories:

1. Arab Foundation for Civil Society and Human Rights Support

2. Partisans of Justice Center

3. Association for Human Rights Legal Aid

4. Center for Trade Union and Workers Services

5. Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance

6. El-Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence

7. Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies

8. Egyptian Organization for Human Rights

9. Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession

10. Center for Communication Support (ACT)

11. Budgetary and Human Rights Observatory

12. Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

13. Free Egyptian Movement

14. One World Foundation

15. New Woman Foundation

16. Association for Human Development

17. Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement

18. Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights

19. Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

20. Egyptian Center for the Right to Housing

21. Mohsen Bahnasi, lawyer and rights activist

22. Hisham Mubarak Law Center

23. Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights

24. Egyptian Association for Disseminating and Developing Legal Awareness

25. One Nation for Development and Liberties

26. Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

27. No Military Trials for Civilians Group

28. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

29. Cairo Liberal Forum

30. Nazra for Feminist Studies

31. Egyptian democratic academy

Statement to Our Sisters in Egypt

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We, Egyptian women in the diaspora, watched with horror as the sit-in at the Egyptian cabinet was forcefully dispersed on 16 December 2011 by the military police. Subsequent protests from that day on saw at least fourteen protesters martyred, thousands beaten, and hundreds detained at the hands of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military junta. We witnessed how you, our sisters, were singled out and brutally abused, verbally degraded, beaten, arrested, and stripped of your clothing. While the iconic image of a woman in abbaya tortured and humiliated by army soldiers was broadcast worldwide, there are doubtless numerous other army abuses that have not been as highlighted. We also cannot forget our sisters who brave live ammunition and tear gas at demonstrations, sacrifice their lives for the revolution, and are subject to “virginity tests” by the same army. You have not only been at the forefront of protests and gone out on the line of fire as security forces cracked down on the uprising, but you have also coordinated vital initiatives such as field hospitals and the campaign to end military trials for civilians.

This is far from the first time that authorities have objectified and exploited women’s bodies as a political tool. We have seen this strategy used the world over in times of political upheaval to repress, instill fear, and detract us from participation in the public sphere. These acts of gender violence are meant to deter the protestors’ spirit and shame them into staying at home. Despite facing such state-sanctioned violence, women have been and will remain steadfast in continuing the struggle for freedom, dignity, equality, and justice in Egypt. They proved this on 19 December 2011, when ten thousand women took to the streets and called in one voice: “Egyptian women will not be stripped!”

The SCAF tactic has backfired, and the resolve of the revolutionaries has thickened. We, Egyptian women in the diaspora, add our voices to theirs and stand in solidarity with our sisters in Egypt, as well as our sisters involved in other liberation struggles throughout the Arab world. We grieve with the mothers of the martyrs, support the families of the civilians facing military tribunals, and express our utmost admiration to those confronting oppression in all its forms and their commitment to seeing this revolution to its completion. We are humbled by the bravery of our countrywomen and countrymen.

We condemn in the strongest terms the abuse of our sisters’ bodies and the violence propagated by SCAF against all Egyptians. We call for Egyptian solidarity activists (individuals and organizations) to join us in our call to:

  • Stop US military and police aid!
  • Stop the murders, tortures and detentions!
  • Release all detainees and political prisoners!
  • Immediate end to military rule in Egypt!

Sign on here!

Signed,

Rania El Essawi
Alya El Hosseiny
Heba Gowayed
Lamia Hassan
Menna Khalil
Hoda Mitwally
Maryam Zohny
The Egyptian Women of the Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution
Alia Elkordy
Aziza Fahim
Dahlia Eissa
Ginan Rauf
Hana Elhattab
Leticia Elnaggar
Mariam Wagdi
Myra Salem
Nada Elmansy
Noha Arafa
Noha Radwan
Randa Emara
Sofi Bahgat

Endorsed by:
The Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution
American Iranian Friendship Committee
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
WESPAC Foundation
WOW Caucus (Women Occupying Wall Street)
A. B. Zahlan
Aly Abul-Kheir
Amejo Amyot
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt
Amy Harris
Andrea Wojcik
Anna Larsson
Barbara Dale
Barry Finger
Billy Kelly
Bushra Shamma
Candace Lukasik
Carol Seeley
Caron Shanahan
Cathy Cade
Cecelia Lavan
Charlotte Kates
Christine McCabe
Cindy Moeckel
Dan La Botz
Daniel Millstone
David L. Mandel
David Letwin
Diane Laison
Donna Little
Eleanor Ommani
Eliane Maria Santos De Lacerda
Ellen Siegel
Frank O’Gorman
Gabriel Engel
Gayle Simons
Geralyn Abinader
Glória Ferreira
Hassan Mohamed
Helen Evelev
James Eilers
Janet Gerson
Janie Rezner
Joan Cove
JoAnne Bauer
Joanne Landy
Joel Furst
Joline Daudelin
Joyce C. Rawitscher
Judith Anne
Karem Said
Kathleen Russell
Katie Colhoun
Kay Keys
Kevin Jones
Lee Levin
Linda Lancz
Lisa Jensky
Margherita Verdis
Mark Adams
Marlena Santoyo
Mary Garton
May Seikaly
Meredith Priestley
Miho Tsujii
Mirene Ghossein
Miriam Kurland
Mirna Miranda
Ms. Beverly Anne Bentley
Nada Khader
Noreen Duggan
Nydia Leaf
Pat Morrison
Philomena McKenna
Pilar Casasus Acevedo
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Salah Aldin
Saleh Mohamed
Sandra Nolan
Shaista Husain
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Alaa Abdel Fattah is free – the struggle continues

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The Ad-Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution rejoices in the freedom of Alaa Abdel Fattah and stands in solidarity with his ongoing struggle and the struggle of all who resist oppression and military rule in Egypt. We celebrate that Alaa is able to hold his newborn son, Khaled, for longer than a half-hour at a time, and we celebrate the spirit of resistance with which he emerged from prison walls.

The struggle is not over. Now, more than ever, continue to call these numbers:
011-202-22916227 and 011-202-2793-5000 and demand the military government drop all charges against Alaa Abdel Fattah and other Egyptian revolutionaries and release all political prisoners:

“We go to the Midan [square] to discover that we love life outside it, and to discover that our love for life is resistance. We race towards the bullets because we love life, and we go into prison because we love freedom.

Love is immortal and sorrow is immortal and the Midan is immortal and the shaheed [martyr] is immortal and the country is immortal. As for their state it is for an hour. Just for an hour.” -Abu Khaled, Alaa Abdel Fatah

For more information about the new attacks being faced by Egyptian revolutionaries and why it is so crucial to keep up the campaigns and pressure, please see this link from the MENA Solidarity Network.

Video of Alaa’s release:

Demand of Egyptian Military Junta: Hands Off Publisher Mohamed Hashem!

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The Egyptian military is threatening to arrest leading publisher Mohamed Hashem of Dar Merit Publishing House.

The Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution is urging all supporters of freedom in Egypt to call 011-202-22916227 and 011-202-2793-5000 and demand that the military stop its threats against Hashem, that it release all detainees and political prisoners, and that it stop its campaign of beatings, torture and murder against protesters (see http://www.defendegyptianrevolution.org/ for more information).

At a press conference Monday, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) screened video footage of detained children claiming they saw Hashem handing out helmets and gas masks to protesters. This is part of a wave of reports in the Egyptian media about this new tactic of the military of detaining and even torturing children to force them to tell fabricated stories against protesters.

Hashem told Ahram Online that his lawyers informed him that the prosecution has issued a warrant for his arrest for alleged involvement in the recent Tahrir violence. He said he had asked Ahmed Seif, the renowned lawyer and activist, to file a lawsuit against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for slander.

In response to the allegations, Hashem stated: “Do they want to kill and injure people while we stand by and do nothing?… Those who can kill doctors healing the injured can also accuse those helping the injured.”

Hashem stressed he would continue to support the revolution, as he has since 25 January, whatever the risks. “My blood isn’t any more precious than that of Sheikh Emad Effat or Alaa Abdel-Hadi who died yesterday.”

Hesham also said that the military council has to be forced to step down since they “kill people and defame people politically.”

Hashem’s publishing house is located near Tahrir Square and has become known for its role during the revolution in offering help and aid to protesters since January. Hashem is a recipient of the German Hermen Kesten Prize for supporting freedom of expression and is well regarded amongst Egyptian and Arab intellectuals.

In solidarity with Hashem, prominent Egyptian figures in the arts world released a statement expressing their “full appreciation of the role played by the Egyptian publisher Mohamed Hashem and Merit Publishing House in the 25 January Revolution in Egypt. We all denounce the accusations against Hashem by a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that is currently ruling Egypt.

“These accusations are aimed at the values advocated by Merit Publishing House since it started to promote enlightenment in the face of oppression and dictatorship. Merit Publishing House represents a haven of freedom,” added the statement.

The Egyptian Publishers Union is also backing Hashem.

A number of Egyptian intellectuals marched in support of Hashem, starting at the Dar Merit office, carrying signs supporting the revolution and opposing military rule, and another such march is planned for December 30th.

All supporters of freedom in the Arab world should stand by Mohamed Hashem, said the statement, to defend the values of the Egyptian Revolution, and to stand against all plots to destroy it.

Hashem was born in Tanta in 1958. He has worked as a reporter and is the author of a number of novellas and short stories, as well as the novel Open Playgrounds (2004).

In 1998, he helped found Dar Merit. Since then, Hashem has both led the vibrant publishing house and been instrumental in the founding of Kefaya and its affiliated “Writers and Artists for Change” movement. As a publisher, Hashem has fostered a number of new currents in Egyptian literature, including popular and pioneering novels by Ahmed Mourad, Alaa al-Aswany, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Hamdy Abu Golayel, Mohamed al-Refai, Miral al-Tahawy, and others. Dar Merit — through its stance against social and governmental censorship — has opened up new possibilities for Arabic literature. In 2006 he received an award from the Association of American Publishers’ International Freedom to Publish Committee for his work, an award presented at the annual gala of PEN, the foremost international organization working for writers’ freedom of expression. Since the arrest threats were made, US and international publishers’ associations have spoken out for him.

Please Support Mohamed Hashem! Endorse this statement, and call General Tantawi’s office to demand:

Hands Off Mohamed Hashem and all Egyptian protesters!

Sources:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/1/64/29798/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-publisher-says-govt-ordered-his-arrest-ov.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContentP/18/29766/Books/Union-backs-Mohamed-Hashem-against-SCAF.aspx
http://mideastposts.com/2011/12/20/a-defence-of-literary-force-of-freedom-mohamed-hashem/
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/142
http://www.publishers.org/press/55/

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Signatories

Abdos Oliman, MO, USA
Ann Grant, Canada
Behnam Karimi, Denmark
Billy Kelly, An American Combat Veteran For Peace and Justice, Stockholm, NJ, United States
Brian Campbell, Vancouver, Canada
Charlotte Kates, Vancouver, Canada
David Letwin, NY, USA
Eleanor Jean Wesley
Gabrielle Verdier, Paris, France
Howard Pflanzer, CUNY, New York, New York
Jeanne Mirer, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, New York, New York, US
Jeremy Saunders, East Greenbush, New York, United States
Karem Said, East Palo Alto, CA, USA
Kate Cameron-Daum, Crowthorne, UK
Kevin O’Neill, New York, USA
Khaled Barakat, Vancouver, Canada
Labor for Palestine
Maralena Murphy, New York, NY
Michael Letwin, Former President, Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325; OWS Labor Outreach Committee, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Mirna Miranda, U. S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, LaPorte, CO, USA
Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Brooklyn, NY, USA
New York City Labor Against the War
Nick Pearson, Weston, MA, USA
Omar El Shafei, New York, United States
Philip Althouse, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Sarah Saez, San Diego, CA, United States

Women Occupying Wall Street in solidarity with the Women of Egypt

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Women Occupying Wall Street issued a statement in solidarity with the women of Egypt on December 21, saluting the women’s mass demonstration in Cairo and responding to the numerous reports of violence against women by the Egyptian state:

We send our strongest support and solidarity to the thousands of women in Tahrir Square and across Egypt protesting the unacceptable violent assault of women protesters by the military. We are troubled, shocked, and outraged at images of a woman protester being beaten and stripped in the streets.

Systematic targeting, marginalization, silencing, and violence against women by anyone, especially the military authorities entrusted to protect us, are unacceptable. These tactics are brutal, criminal and dishonorable. We share your anger.

We recognize the brave women of Egypt and women around the world who risk their lives to protest unjust systems. Women are powerful and essential forces in revolutions. Your power and courage is are incredibly inspiring to all women.

We send solidarity and encouragement to you in this honorable fight to protect women’s rights. We join you in outrage and support your fight for peace and justice. We stand united with all women of Egypt.

United, we will never be defeated.

Urgent Appeal to Occupy and All Social Justice Movements: Mobilize to Defend the Egyptian Revolution

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Urgent Appeal to Occupy and All Social Justice Movements:
Mobilize to Defend the Egyptian Revolution
December 19, 2011

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In recent days, protesters demanding civilian rule in Egypt have again been murdered, maimed and tortured by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the Interior Security Forces (ISF).

The conspiracy, being brutally implemented in Egypt, is part of a global conspiracy to suffocate mass movements for socio-economic justice and is being done with direct assistance of the American government and the private interests which direct that government. We have word from friends in Egypt that SCAF, ISF and their hired thugs — armed by ongoing shipments of $1.3 billion in weapons from the U.S. government — plan to execute one by one all the leaders of the revolution, and as many activists as they can.

Accordingly, we need to ensure that people and organizers in the US and internationally are involved in closely monitoring the events unraveling in Egypt. By keeping track of the atrocities committed by SCAF and ISF, keeping track of those detained, tortured or targeted, and continuously contacting officials in Egypt and the US to demand accountability, cessation of the atrocities and justice, we can add pressure on SCAF, ISF and the forces they represent. In this way we may be able to play a role in helping save the lives of our Egyptian brothers and sisters.

Evidence of the conspiracy to execute the leaders and participants of Egyptian freedom movement, includes in very small part the following:

  • Sheikh Emad of Al Azhar was killed by a bullet entering his right side from short range. This was seen at first hand by witnesses known to members of our coalition. Sheikh Emad was one of a small number of Azhar Imams issuing decrees in support of the revolution. His murder was no accident.
  • Sally Tooma, Mona Seif, Ahdaf Soueif, and Sanaa Seif, all female friends and relatives of imprisoned blogger and activist Alaa abd El Fattah, and all known internationally for their political and/or literary work, were detained, and beaten in the Cabinet building.
  • A woman protesting against General Tantawi, head of SCAF, was detained and then tortured by having the letter “T” in English carved into her scalp with knives.
  • Detainees are being tortured while in courtroom holding pens. Two men (Mohammad Muhiy Hussein is one of them) were killed in those pens.These are only a small number of the horror stories we are hearing. And we continue to receive reports from Cairo about a massive army presence in Tahrir Square and the constant sound of gunshots.These are only a small number of the horror stories we are hearing. And we continue to receive reports from Cairo about a massive army presence in Tahrir Square and the constant sound of gunshots.

In every way, Egypt’s fight is our fight. Just like us, Egyptians are the 99%, fighting for social, political and economic justice.

The same 1% that arms the Egyptian dictatorship commits systematic violence in this country against the Occupy movement; antiwar and solidarity activists; and Arabs, Muslims, and other communities of color.

As the US Palestinian Community Network recently observed, “the same US-made tear gas rains down on us in the streets of Oakland, Cairo and Bil`in.”

Because of Egypt’s key strategic location, the fate of its revolution echoes across the world. Its success will bring us all closer to achieving economic and social justice. But its defeat would be a major blow to social justice movements everywhere, including Occupy.

In short, Egypt is key to the continued success of the Arab Revolution, and movements she has inspired.

For all these reasons, we ask Occupy and all U.S. social justice activists to join us in mobilizing to defend our Egyptian brothers and sisters by immediately organizing mass convergences on Egyptian embassies, missions, consulates, and at U.S. government offices, to demand:

  • Cancel all US aid and shipment of military and police materiel to Egypt!
  • Stop the murders, tortures and detentions!
  • Release all detainees and political prisoners!
  • Immediate end to military rule in Egypt!

Issued by (list in formation) (Individual endorsers below):

Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution
Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Al-Nakba Awareness Project
Bay Area United Against War Newsletter
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice
Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Canadian Peace Alliance
Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights (CMPR)
Circle of the Living Earth – AIWP
Coalition of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, Egypt
CODEPINK
CODEPINK Maine
Community Organizing Center – Columbus, OH
EGALITE
Egyptian Association for Change- NY
Existence is Resistance
Fallout Shelter – Fallon, MO
Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq
Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment-GABRIELA USA
Freedom Road Socialist Organization/OSCL
Green Party – Manhattan Local (NYC)
Green Party of Virginia
Ideograph
Individuals for Justice
International Action Center
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
International League of People’s Struggles LOC
International Socialist Organization
Jan25 Solidarity for Democracy Network
Labor for Palestine
League for the Revolutionary Party
Middle East Crisis Committee
Movement for a Democratic Society
Muslims for Peace, Justice, and Progress
National Lawyers Guild – New York City Chapter
No More Victims
National Lawyers Guild – Muslim Defense Committee – New York
New York City Labor Against the War
News and Letters Committee
Occupy Boston
Occupy Burlington
Occupy Cafe
Occupy Dallas
Occupy Madison
Occupy Mobile, Alabama
Occupy Modesto Jr College
Occupy Oakland
Occupy Perth
Occupy Santa Ana
Occupy Schenectady
Occupy Terre Haute Occupy Toronto
Occupy Washington, DC
Occupy Yerevan, Armenia
Organizacion Socialista Internacional – Puerto Rico
Organization for Black Struggle
Palestine Solidarity Network – Bay Area
Peregrine Forum
PeterCares House
People’s Video Network
Portland Labor for Peace and Justice
Prison Watch Network International
Progressive Democrats of America, Miami Chapter
Progressive Democrats of America, Ohio Chapter
Radio Free Maine
Raha Iranian Feminist Collective
Roots Report
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
San Jose Peace and Justice Center
Scholars Without Borders
Siegebusters Working Group
6 of April Youth Movement America
Socialist Action
Socialist Worker
Solidarity
Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights
The T.E.L. That Foundation
United National Antiwar Coalition
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Labor Against the War
US Palestinian Community Network
Women Against Killing – Berkeley, CA
Workers World Party

Please endorse and circulate this appeal widely. Please send statements with these demands to the bodies listed below. By endorsing, your organization commits to making these phone calls and following up continuously for the next week.

www.defendegyptianrevolution.org and defendegyptianrevolution@gmail.com

IMMEDIATE ACTIONS:

Call/write-in to Egyptian government.

Ministry of Defense
Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Soliman
Phone: 01120222916227
Fax: +(20) 2 2 5748 822 (+20) 22 291 6227
E-mail: mod@idsc.gov.eg
Website: http://www.mmc.gov.eg

Dr.Kamal El Ganzory, Prime Minister
Phone: +202-2793-5000
Fax: +202-2795-8048
E-mail: pm@cabinet.gov.eg
Website: http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/Cabinet/Prime_Minister.aspx

Endorse the Statement

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Individual Endorsements

(The Rev.) Michael Relyea, Forest Hills, N.Y. , USA
A. Parker, P. Plews, Prison Watch Network International, Phoenix, AZ/Amsterdam, NL, USA / Netherlands
Aaron Petkov, ISO, Detroit, MI, USA
Abigail Meisel, New York, NY
Ada Bobonis, San Juan,Puerto Rico
Adam Davidson-Harden, http://buildingbetterworld.blogspot.com,Kingston, Ontario,Canada
Ailsa Land, Ivybridge, Devon,UK
Akram Nadir, International Representative of Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) www.fwcui.org,Baghdad,Iraq
Al Benford, Manchester, CT, USA
Alan Cad, Bayonne, NJ, USA
Alan Haggard, San Diego, CA,United States
Alex O Zicari, Garrettsville,United States
Alexander Bresee, Occupy Boston,Malden,United States
Alexandra Winsby, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Alexis West, Redmond, OR, USA
Ali Mallah, Canadian Peace Alliance,Toronto,Canada
Alice Diane Kisch, Emeryville, California, USA
Alice Sturm Sutter, North Manhattan Neighbors for Peace and Justice, NYC, NY, USA
Alinka Seth,Occupy Berlin,Berlin,Germany
Allan Fisher, AFT 2121,San Francisco, USA
Allison Stanley, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia
Allyson Trull, Occupy Providence,Providence, RI,United States
Alma Torres, Puerto Rico,Puerto Rico
Amberlynn Restorick, CO, USA
Amina Mansour, Fairhope, AL, USA
Amir M. Maasoumi
Amira Boctor, U.S.A.
Amr Hassan, Cairo, Egypt
Ana Fisher, AFT 2121,San Francisco, CA, USA
Ana Goncalves, Lisbon, Portugal
Andre van Seenus, Carmel Valley, USA
Andrea D Ploscowe, Occupy Rochester NY,Rochester, NY, USA
Andrea Young, New Orleans, LA, USA
Andrew Maben
Andrew Mallis, Ideograph, San Francisco,United States
Andrew Rooney, Green Party ,Milton Keynes, BuckinghamshireAndrew Seymour,
Anita Wedell, Germany,Nagold
Ann and Derek Legg, Richmond, CA,United States
Anna Brown, Blaine, WA ,U.S.A.
Anna Louise Ogden-Nussbaum, Madison, WI,USA
Anna Louise Ogden-Nussbaum, Occupy Madison,
Annabelle Parker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anne Wangh
annette Herskovits, CA, United States
Annette Skorupa
Annie Fanelli, Occupy Oakland,Oakland, CA,
Annie Rose London, Hoboken, United States
Anqunetta White, Jenks, Oklahoma,U.S.A.
Anthony Arnove, ISO, Brooklyn, NY, US
Anthony LeTigre, Wheatgrass,San Francisco, CA,San Francisco
Arlene Eisen, San Francisco, CA, USA
Arthur Mckerron., Twu Retired, Sydney NSW, Australia
Audrey Clement, Green Party of Virginia, Arlington, U.S.A.
Ayala Kalisher, Oakland CA, USA
Ayman El-Sawa, Egyptian-American Activist & Organizer,Highlands, USA
Azalia Torres, Former Executive Board member, Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325,Brooklyn,NY
B. Ross Ashley, Toronto, ON, Canada
Barbara Bogard, Mill Valley,United States
Barbara Soutar, Woodstock, Georgia, USA
Barry De Jasu, MA, United States
Ben Chitty, Veterans For Peace, Professional Staff Congress, New York, NY
Bennet D. Zurofsky, Esq., New Jersey State Industrial Union Council,Newark, NJ, USA
Bennett Muraskin, Morris Plains, NJ, USA
Bernard Tuchman, New York, United States
Bert Garskof, Movement for a Democratic Society, Bethany,Connecticut, USA
Berta Jottar, New York City
Bethney Foster, Cleveland, TN, USA
Betty J. Tindle, Four Blue Hills Blog (personal),Deaver, Wyoming, USA
Bill Fletcher, Jr., BlackCommentator.com (for identification only),, USA
Bill Lackemacher, Sacramento For Democracy,Sacramento, CA, USA
Bill Michom, Portland,United States
Billy Kelly, Veterans For Peace,Stockholm,United States
Blaize Abshire, Deer Park, Texas,United States
Bob Gifford, Workers Party Political Action Committee,Stevens Point, WI, USA
Bob McCubbin, CTA,San Diego,United States
Bobbie Flowers
Bradley Gulliford, Arlington, TX, USA
Brandon Goff, Minneapolis MN, USA
Brian Clothier, chestertown, md, USA
Brian T Gibbons, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Brian Todd, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Brooks Ballenger, UAW,Amherst, MA, USA
Bruce Allen, Occupy Niagara,St. Catharines, Ontario,Canada
Bruce Friesen, Wesley Chapel, FL, USA
Bruno Bruhwiler, Los Angeles, California,United States of America
Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, London,United Kingdom
Carin Rodenborn
Carmen Dello Buono, San Jose, California,United States
Carol F. Yost, New York, New York, USA
Carol Grayson, independent campaigner/researcher in global health/human rights,Newcastle, Tyne and Wear,England
Carol Pinson, Martinez, CA, USA
Carol Sanders, Berkeley, CA, USA
Caroline Herzenberg, Chicago, IL, USA
Caroline Leisure, Marquette, MI, USA
Caron Shanahan
Casey Butcher, Education & Empowerment OWS, Brecht Forum, Red Channels,Brooklyn, NY,
Casey Herz, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Charles Rawls, Asheville, NC,U.S.A.
Chen Tamir, New York, NY,11101
Chris Hughes
Chris Kaihatsu, RevLeft.com (affiliation only),Chicago, IL,United States
Chris Kasper, New York, NY,10007
Chris Tolliver
Christa Blackwood, CPC,Austin, Texas,United States
Christa Saunders
ChristiAnne Sullivan
Christine Johnson, Pasadena,United States
Christine Weiss, SOMA, Central Falls, RI,United States
Christopher Lish, Olema, CA, United States of America
Cihan Tomak
Claire Lewis,Student, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,New York,United States
Colby Hopkins, Occupy Wall Street,New York, NY, USA
Cole Miller, No More Victims,Los Angeles, CA, USA
Corey Toomey
Cory. Alperstein, Princeton, NJ, USA
Cynthia Papermaster, Berkeley, CA, USA
Cyril O’Reilly, los Angeles, CA, USA
Dahlia Eissa, New York, NY, USA
Dan Kaplan,Executive Secretary, AFT Local 1493,Berkeley, CA,USA
Dan Read, Bristol,England
Dana Cloud, International Socialist Organization,Austin, TX,US
Daniel DeAngelis, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
Daniel Kleinman, New York, NY, USA
Daniel Uselmann
Daphne Calvo, Queens, NY, USA
Darren Bader
Dave Rendle, Ceredigion, Wales
David Anderson, New York , NY., USA
David B. Maynard, Seat 1 Hillsborough County Soil and Water Conservation Board,Thonotosassa, FL, U.S.
David J. Dolloff, Pacifica,U.S.A.
David Kannerstein, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania,United States
David L. Mandel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Sacramento, CA, USA
David L. Williams, Peregrine Forum, Madison, WI, USA
David Laibman, Brooklyn, New York,USA
David Natale, self,Seattle, Washington,U.S.A
David R. Applebaum, Independent Scholar,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States of America
David Stodolsky, Occupy Copenhagen,Copenhagen NV,Denmark
Dawn Stanger, Teamsters 597/Vermont Workers’ Center,Underhill, VT, USA
Deb Friedman
Deborah Meier, Hillsdale, NY, USA
Deborah Rothman, NYSUT, Local 2190,New York NY,USA
Dee Halzack, Lowell, MA,United States
Dennis Kortheuer, California Faculty Association,Long Beach, Ca, USA
Derek Alan Ide, Toledo, United States
Dette McLoughlin,Socialist Worker,galway,Ireland
Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, ABC,Brooklyn,
Diane Sabeghi, San Diego, CA
Diann Bower, Berlin,Germany
Dina Campos Lopes, Lisbon,Portugal
Dione Messina, New York, New York,USA
Dominic Renda, Woodside, NY
Donna Boland, San Rafael, CA, USA
Donna Pedroza
Donna Ward, North Highlands,United States
Douglas Anderson, Caldwell College,Caldwell, NJ,United States
Douglas Parker
Dr. David L. Brunsma
Dr. Johnny E. Williams, Trinity College,Hartford, CT, USA
Dr. Philip Gasper, Madison, WI, USA
Dr. Roger Dittmann, SEIU/Scholars without Borders, Newport Beach, CA, United States
Dustin Cain Hawks, Occupy Portland,Portland, Oregon, USA
Dylan Thompson, Occupy Santa Ana,Santa Ana, California,United States of America
Ed Hunt, SEIU Local 503 Oregon Public Employees Union, Salem, Oregon, USA
Edna Bonhomme, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Edward J. Santella, Malden, MA, US
Eileen Clark, Australia
Elana Mann
Elizabeth Clinton, International Socialist Organization, Denton, TX, USA
Elizabeth G. Burkhart,MA,United States
Ellen Wasfi, Dover, DE, USA
Emily Reynolds, Occupy Burlington
Emma Coleman, Berkeley, CA, USA
Emma Hurme, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Eric Brown
Eric Geist, Communications Workers of America, Silver Spring, MD,United States
Eric Heinonen, Oakland, CA, USA
Eric Robson, AFSCME 171,Madison, WI,USA
Eric Russell, Russell Consultants, Basking Ridge, New Jersey,United States
Erica Chenoweth, Oakland, CA, USA
Erin Schell, Brooklyn, NY
Ernesto Paramo,Free Gaza Movement,Newbury,UK
Eugene Hamond, Wallkill, NY, USA
Eugene Kerekes
Evalyn Segal, Voices for Justice in Palestine, Rossmoor,Walnut Creek, CA,USA
Faramarz Farbod, Nazareth, PA, USA
Faye Powell, Portland OR,US
Federica Beuti, Berlin, Germany
Felix Bunke, Occupy Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Felix Cardinal,
Fran Hoef-Bouchard, Portland, U.S.A.
Francesc Ruiz, Barcelona, Spain
Francine Frank, Albany, NY
Franco Galdini
Frank Couget, Shop Steward, National Association of Letter Carriers -Branch 36, AFL-CIO,Astoria, NY, USA
Frank Hammer, UAW, Detroit, MI, USA
Frans Jacobi, Denmark
Fred Hirsch, Executive Board Member, Plumbers and Fitters Local 393,San Jose, California,U.S.A.
Fred Mecklenburg,News and Letters Committees,Chicago, IL,USA
Gabriela Sonam, Occupy Wall Street, NY, United States
Gail Brown, Berkeley, United States
Garrett Wright, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Gaye Smith, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Geoff Jobson, Western Cape, South Africa
George Cammarota, San Jose, CA,USA
George Stadnik, Astoria, NY, USA
Georgios Kafes, Berlin, Germany
Gerald Ganann, Veterans for Peace, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Glenn Shelton, Detroit,United States
Goran Maric, artist,Dallas, Texas, USA
Greg Giorgio, Upstate N.Y. IWW,Altamont, NY, USA
Greg Timony, Dublin,Ireland
Hal Sutton, UAW Local 1268 Retirees Chapter, Rockton, IL, USA
Hannah Fraser, Los Angeles, United States
Hannah Wolfe, International Socialist Organization,NY, Ny,US
Hanspeter Gysin, Basel,Switzerland
Helen Evelev, PA, United States
Henry Waller, Oakland, CA, USA
Howard Johnson, Los Angeles, California,United States of America
Ibrahim Al-Mufarrej, NY, United States
Iman Hamam, American University in Cairo,Cairo,Egypt
Inga Jensen, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Iris Biblowitz, SEIU 1021,San Francisco, CA, USA
J Young
Jackie Bulanow, Washington DC, USA
Jacob Glicklich, Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association,Milwaukee, WI,53211
James Barlow, San Francisco,United States
James Latimore, Occupy Asheville, Asheville, NC
James Robert Miles, W. Palm Bch, USA
Jane Martin, Omaha,United States
Janelle Treibitz, Washington, DC, USA
Janet Hudgins, BC, Canada
Janet Kobren
Jasmine Fraser, San Francisco CA, USA
Jason lopresto, ISO, Leander, texas,
Jason Schulman, New Politics, New York, NY, USA
Jean Brooks, WI, United States
Jeff Hewitt, Perth, Western Australia,Australia
Jeff Rudisill, Sierra Madre,United States
Jeffrey Dickemann, Richmond, California,USA
Jeffrey Vander Clute, NAPA,United States
Jennifer Hazard, Milwaukee,
Jennifer Miller, Oshkosh, WI, USA
Jenny Moon, Belleville, Illinois, USA
Jerome & Pamela Sanderfoot, Combined Locks, Wisconsin, USA
Jerome Sanderfoot, Combined Locks WI,USA
Jerry Mastriano, NY,USA
Jesse Brown, Occupy Santa Rosa,Santa Rosa, California, USA
Jessie Dijkstra, Occupy Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jill Linn Haverland-Wilder, Occupy Astoria Oregon,Astoria, USA
Jim Catterson, ICEM, Switerland
Jim Pita,Community Services Committee Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO,Detroit, MI
JoAnne Bauer, Occupy Hartford, Hartford, USA
Joanne Landy, Campaign for Peace and Democracy,New York,NY
Joci Rhoda
Joe Walsh, Individuals For Justice,Portland, OR,United States
John Chasnoff, St. Louis Missouri, USA
John Lawrence, Brooklyn, NY, USA
John Matheson, Hilltop Mn, USA
John McGloin, Occupy Wall Street,Statten island, NY, USA
John Mineka, New York, NY
John Monteith, Brooklyn, NY, USA
John Pavlou, Yonkers, NY, USA
John Varga, Occupy Santa Ana, Santa Ana, CA, USA
John Walsh, Occupy Galway,Galway,Ireland
Jon Olsen, Green Party,Jefferson, United States
Jonathan Noble, Occupy Worcester,Worcester, MA, United States of America
Jonathan Noble, Worcester, MA, United States of America
Jose van Leeuwen, peace activist,Den Haag,Holland
Joseph Wasserman, West Hartford, CT, United States
Judith Ackerman, NYC, NY,USA
Judy Clay, Occupy San Diego/International Socialist Organization, San Diego, United States
Judy Clay,Leslie, AR, USA
Jule Michel
Julien Ball, Occupy San Francisco, International Socialist Organization, San Francisco, CA, USA
June Brumer, OAKLAND, CA, USA
Karen MacRae, Toronto, Canada
Karen Platt, Albany, CA, USA
Karen Trusty, Occupy Portland, Portland, OR, USA
Karin Wilkins
Karolina Erlingsson
Karun Cowper, Occupy Perth, Joondalup,Australia
Kat LeMaster, Seattle, WA, USA
Kaveri Indira, Concerns,Bengaluru, Karnataka,India
Kaya Behkalam
Keith Brooks
Keller Allen, Occupy America, Brattleboro, VT, USA
Kerie Campbell, Occupy Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA
Kesa Hopkins, Artist,Detroit, Michigan, USA
Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society,Springdale, AR, USA
Kevin Coyne, Lynn, MA,USA
Kevin Cunningham, DC, United States
Kevin Hayes, Denton, Texas,USA
Kevin O’Neill, West Babylon, New York, USA
Kevin Woodruff, San Francisco, CA, United States
Kevin Zacharia, New York, USA
Kim Scipes, National Writers Union, Chicago, IL, USA
Kit Kittredge, Quilcene Washington, USA
Kourtney Keller
Kristin Smith, Port Townsend WA, USA
Kristina Lee Podesva, San Francisco, CA, USA
Kristina Yates
Kristine von Denffer, Puolanka,Finland
Kyle Goen
Kyle Petlock, Progressive Democrats of America, We Are Change Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Larry Brockelbank, Midland, ON, Canada
Larry Hovekamp,US Labor Against War,Louisville Ky,United States
Larry Lambert, Desert Springs, CA , USA
Larry Yates, Winchester VA, USA
Laura Jordan, US
Laura Lynch, environmental artist,Santa Barbara, CA
Lauren Byers, International Socialist Organization,Gainesville, FL,United States
Lauren Steiner, Occupy LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lauri Murphy, Columbus, United States
Laurie J Adkins, Thornton, United States
Laurie Milner
Lawrence C. Hager, Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice, Falls Church, United States
Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Leah Juniper, Consumer Advocacy Coalition, Santa Barbara Ca
Leanne Mella, New York,US
Lee Holdridge, Kalamazoo MI,US
Leela Yellesetty, Seattle, WA
Lenore Holz, Occupy Wall Street, Jersey City, NJ, United States
Leslie Angeline, CODEPINK,San Francisco, CA, United States
Leslie Feinberg, Syracuse, NY,U.S.
Leslie Radford, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Lincoln Bergman, Richmond, CA, USA
Linda Gillaspy, Reno, NV, USA
Linda Maltezos, CO, USA
Linda Maltezos,USA
Linda Ray,SEIU 1021,San Francisco, CA,U.S.A.
Lindsay Conquest, Occupy Seattle, Seattle,
Lindsay Newland Bowker, Stonington, Maine, U.S.A.
Lisa Elkins
Lisbeth West, duckdaotsu media arts, Loveland, CO, USA
Little Sun S. Heard, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Liz Amsden, Los Angeles, CA,
Lois Downing, Move On,Castro Valley, Ca,U.S.A.
Londa Jensen, Allston, MA,USA
Lora Lucero, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Lorenzo Kristov, Davis, California, USA
Loyal Dodson, USA
Lucienne O’Keefe
Lynn Ann Garrett, Occupy San Diego,CA,United States
M. Murphy Smith, Austin TX, USA
Maasser Kandil,Egyptian Women For Change,Madrid & Cairo,Spain & Egypt
Magali Larson, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Mandy Elliott, Melbourne, Florida,U.S.A.
Maria Gregorio, Occupy Movement,Astoria, NY,
Mariah Leung, Al-Nakba Awareness Project,Eugene, OR, USA
Marian Swerdlow, UFT – AFL -CIO,NY NY, USA
Mark M Giese, Racine, WI, USA
Mark Weinberg, National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 10,Evanston (Chicago) IL,United States
Marsha Carlton, CA, USA
Martha Rosler, Berlin,Germany
Martina Wellm
Martine Aballéa, Paris, France
Marvin Cohen,Voices for Justice in Palestine,Walnut Creek, CA,U.S.
Mary Himmer, Blue Bell, PA, USA
Mary Nichols-Rhodes, PDA Ohio,Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA
Mary Scully, IUE-CWA Local 201 (Retired),TX,United States
Matt Courter, Seattle, WA, USA
Matthew Breno, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Matthew Curtis Perry, Oakland, California, USA
Matthew Hopkins, Missoula, Montana,United States
Matthew L. O’Leary, Holyoke, MA, U.S.A
Matthew Pilagin, Vernon,
Matthew Teeters, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Mauro Carlo Zanella, Roma,Italia
Meghan Lemay, International Socialist Organization,Amherst MA,United states
Mel Bienenfeld, New York, NY, USA
Melanie Moyer, Clayton,United States
Micaela L. Ward, RNC, Revolution Truth,Hulls Cove, Maine, USA
Michael Ashkin, Ithaca, NY
Michael Batchelder, Jewish Voice for Peace,San Mateo, CA,USA
Michael Corsi, Bedford, TX,United States
Michael Eisenscher, U.S. Labor Against the War,Washington, DC,United States
Michael Kydonieus, San Francisco, CA,United States
Michael Letwin, Former President, Assn. of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325; OWS Labor Outreach Committee,Brooklyn, NY, USA
Michael Linderg, Springfield, MA,United States of America
Michael McGee, Venice, A, USA
Michael-David Sasson, IBT Local 2010, Oakland, CA, USA
Michel Gallant, Montreal, QC,Canada
Michele Hannon, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
Michelle Long
Michelle Parker, Gainesville, FLorida,United States
Mike Gimbel, Retired Executive Board member, Local 375 AFSCME,Saylorsburg,PA, USA
Mikkel Wiese, Kommuniker mer, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mimi Attleson, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Mimo Sophe, Occupy, Sydney,Australia
Miral Ahmed Salim Mohammad, Washington, DC,
Miran Rose Istina, Occupation Healers and Medics, Occupation Eastern Religious Leaders of The American Revolution, Women of Faith in Occupy Wall Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mirna Miranda, International Solidarity Movement, LaPorte, CO, USA
Mischa Saunders, Occupy Toronto, Toronto,Canada
Mohamed Diaa Aboul Komsan, Tate Modern London,London,UK
Moira Croley, Occupy,Lafayette, IN,United States
Mona Ahmad, Karachi, Pakistan
Mona Mehdy, Austin, TX, USA
Monty Reed Kroopkin
Moses Seenarine, Huntington Beach,United States
Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS), Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS), Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Nadine Grippekoven, Occupy Duesseldorf, Mönchengladbach,Germany
Nahed Mansour, Canada
Nancy Demerdash, Princeton University,Princeton, NJ, USA
Nancy Wightman, Lakewood,CO, USA
Nanette Yannuzzi, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
Nasrat Nazmy, 95028 HOF,Germany
Natalie Wyatt, Occupy Denver, Aurora Colorado, USA
Nathan Fishman, Perth Amboy,United States
Nazir Akmal, Muar, Johor, Malaysia
Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis, Davis CA, USA
Neveen Taher, Brookline,United States
nick pearson, weston, ma, usa
Nicole Hala
Nicole Wolf
Noha Arafa, NY, USA
Noha Radwan, Occupy Oakland, Oakland, CA, USA
NV Leger
Obadah Alfaham, Sylvania, Ohio, United States
Pablo Oliva, Pasadena, United States
Pamela Kittelson, Missoula, United States
Pat Brunson, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Pat Thomas, Melbourne, FL,United States
Patricia A Wells, CA,United States
Patricia Levasseur, National Lawyers Guild, New York, NY, USA
Patricia Salomon, Monterey, MA, USA
Patsy Lowe, Palm Springs, United States
Patti Hoffmann, Easton, United States
Paul Hubbard, Grass Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Paul Karsh, Martinez, CA, USA
Pedro Soares, Oliveira de Azemeis,Portugal
Penny Rosenwasser
Per Faaland, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Peter Bulanow, Herndon, VA, USA
Peter Kay, Switzerland
Peter Kuttner, IATSE, Chicago, IL,USA
Peter O’Connell, Philadelphia, PA,USA
Phil Airey, Perth, Western Australia,Western Australia
Philip Fornaci, DC Statehood Green Party,Washington, DC,United States
Rachel Beach, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Rachel Higgins, Brooklyn, NY 11206,United States
Rana Elkahwagy, Alexandria,Egypt
Rania Elessawi, EAC-NY,
Ravi Khanna, Malden, MA,Middlesex
Rebecca Binns, Sunderland,United States
Rebecca Pini, 63067 Offenbach am Main,Germany
Reiko Aylesworth
Reisa Jaffe
Rev. Gerhard Schulz, Germany
Rey Ramirez,Occupy Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Richard Blum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Richard Brinton, Salinas, CA, USA
Richard Reilly,Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism, Chicago, Illinois,USA
Rick Powers, Franklin,United States
Rik Deskin, Kirkland,United States
Rima Bensrieti
Robert Bonner, AFGE,Pittsburgh, Pa., USA
Robert Brown
Robert M. Goetz, Wilkinsburg, PA,United States
Robert Petricci, Phoa, Hawaii, USA
Roberta Ailene Moore, Durham, USA
Roberto Pitea, Italy
Robin Johnson, Desert Hot Springs, Ca, USA
Robin Miller, Durham, NH, USA
Robyn Croke, West Cornwall, Ct, USA
Roger Dittman, SEIU, CA, United States
Ron Strand
Ronald Spriestersbach, Los Angeles,United States
Ronen Yudzinsky, Occupy Boston, Lowell, MA, USA
Rosemary Agonito, Syracuse NY,USA
Roxanna Karn, Bozeman
Roy Rollin, New York, NY, USA
Ruedi Bosshart, zuerich,switzerland
Ryan Halas, Occupy Asheville, Asheville NC, USA
ryan hebert, LA,United States
S Jahangeer
Sabina Maria van der Linden, Tilberg,Netherlands
Sage Zanth
Salvatore Cina, Lodi, N.J., USA
Sam Bailey
Sam Friedman
Sam Kimball, ISO,Brooklyn, NY,United States
Sam Miller
Scott Erickson, Santa Cruz, CA,
Scott Martindale, Murfreesboro, TN.,United States
Sean Bryant, Raleigh, NC, USA
Sergio Vinti, Milano,Italy
Shaista Husain, NY NY, USA
Sharat G. Lin, San Jose Peace and Justice Center,San Jose, CA,U.S.A.
Shari Wagaman, U.S.
Sharon Marmon-Kaczorowski, Occupy Delaware,New Castle, Delaware, USA
Sharon Tipton, Orange County Peace Coalition,Irvine, CA, USA
Sherif Mansour, Egyptian Association for Change,Washington, DC, USA
Sherna Berger Gluck, SEIU1983,
Sherry Vatter, Los Angeles, California,USA
Snehal Shingavi, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin,Austin,United States
Spencer Cavanaugh, Rockland, MA,United States of America
Sri Louise, NM,United States
Stephanie Mills, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Chelsea, MA, United States
Stephanie Mills, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Chelsea, MA, United States
Stephanie Skier, Cambridge, MA,United States
Stephen Coady
Stephen Lunger, PA,United States
Steve Cohen, National Education Association, USA
Steve Gulick, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Steve Leigh, International Socialist Organization; Occupy Seattle,Seattle, Wa.,U.S.A.
Steve Morse, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 69,Oakland, CA, USA
Steve Schieser
Steven Flood, Austin, TX, USA
Sue Harris, Peoples Video network,New York, NY,United States
Susan Barrett
Susan Ursel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Suzanne Montalalou, Buffalo, NY`, USA
Sydney Vilen, Berkeley, CA, USA
Tamara Otello, Adelaide, Australia
Tamara Zawadski, MD, United States
Tammie Manis, Elwood Indiana, USA
Tanya Habjouqa, Rawiya Photos,US
Tasha Robbins
Ted Pusillo, Longmont, Colorado,United States
Teresa Prince, WA,United States
teri brensinger
Terry Craig, Occupy Easton Pa., Easton Pa, U.S.A.
Tess McInnis, Missoula Montana, USA
Thomas Harrison, Campaign for Peace and Democracy,New York, NY 10128, USA
Thomas M. Privitere, NYS Public Employee’s Federation AFL-CIO,Rochester, New York, USA
Thomas Saffold, Muslim Democracy Action Network,Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Tim Stone, Burlington WI, USA
Tobey M. Wiebe
Tom Baxtwr, American Legion,Tallahassee Florida, USA
Tom Siracuse, Manhattan Local of the Green Party (NYC), New York, NY, USA
Toni Samer, Cairo, Egypt
Tori Porell, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Toufic Haddad
Travis Vinson
Trina Clemente, Madison, WI, USA
Ute Hempel, Brachwitz, Germany
Vera Cohen, Littleton, MA, USA
Vicky Putler, London,UK
Vlad Teichberg, Global Revolution TV,New York, NY,United States
Walda Katzfishman, Sociologists without Borders,Bethesda, MD, USA
Wallace Showman, New York, NY, USA
Walter Birdwell, National Association of Letter Carriers (retired), Laguna Vista, Texas, USA
Warren Davis, Solidarity, 7012 Michigan Ave Detroit, MI 48210, USA
Wendy Scher, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Werner Lange, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,Edinboro, PA, USA
William Kavber, Austin, Tx, USA
William Phillips, Richmond Hill, NY, USA
Xan Joi, Women Against Killing,Berkeley, Ca, USA
Yasmine Ramadan
Young Park, YLaughter, Astoria, NY,US
Zac Bull, London,UK
Zuhair Al-Atwi, PRC, Albany, New York, USA