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UNREC PLS Middle East Protests Mothership #10

by conchita

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(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday, Feb. 01, 2011 Tuesday, Feb. 01, 2011 at 6:29:18pm PST

RULES OF THE ROAD:

Please do not comment in this diary unless it is to volunteer to do a child diary. This is a Mothership diary to allow us to keep up to date with the protests in the Middle East.

Please unrec this diary and rec #11 instead. This keeps only one Mothership diary on the Rec List.

To comment on the protests, please go to the current child diary HERE.

If you've posted a new diary on this subject, please post a link beneath the tip jar and it will be added to the links posted below.

Current Child Diary: HERE by bicycle Hussein paladin.

Previous Mothership Diary by LucyandByron:
Egyptian Middle East Protests Liveblog Mothership Diary 9

HOW TO HOST A MOTHERSHIP:

1. post a comment with "I"LL HOST MOTHERSHIP #XX" in the subject.
2. ask for the link to the google doc template
3. follow instructions in doc. it takes about 1 minute to copy and paste the sections: Title, Intro, Body, Tags
4. email unaspenser at una [dot] spenser [at] yahoo [dot] com OR
conchita at sharon [dot] lynch [at] verizon [dot] net
for more info - we all thank you for your service.

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Kossak Sillia gives a concise explanation of the mothership and liveblog:

This diary, that is, the mothership, forms the hub from which you can reach the other diaries. Or, think of it as a table of contents in the front page of a book. You use this diary to find a link to the latest discussions. You can also find links here to past discussions (previous diaries) if you wanted to read them.
A "child diary" is where the discussion is -- once one of these gets so long that its size is cumbersome (300 comments), they start a new one. So if you wanted to join in to the most current discussion, you'd click the most recent link. But they leave the links there so that people can still go back and read the older ones if they wish.

The reason for this setup is that it prevents the recommended list from being filled up with many diaries on the same topic. Instead just the mothership will appear on the rec list where everybody can find it, which they can use to navigate to the latest discussion. (That's why we are asked to "rec" the mothership but not the other diaries, just reduces confusion.) I hope this is sort of what you were wanting to know...

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NEWS SOURCES:

Recommended Video Feed
Live Video Feed from Al Jazeera here

Recommended Twitter Feeds
#suez #egypt #jan25 #ioerror

Recommended News Streams:

The Guardian - Protests in Egypt Live Updates

The New York Times Lede blog

BBC - Egypt Live Coverage

New York Times Lede blog

opendna has posted a powerful twitter streaming tool which allows you to stream #jan25 and 'egypt' twitter feeds. Highly recommended.

simone daud has a new regularly-updated news feed Arab Sources (1st February) from Arabic sources (mostly RNN and MB forums). Additionally, there are several other Arabic speaking Kossacks: soysauce, unspeakable, sortalikenathan, and fire bad tree pretty, that can help in translations or give context not necessarily being presented in English-language media. If anyone else can help with translations please let people know in comments.

weasel has a great diary up tracking uprisings and news from across the Middle East and North Africa

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ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE EGYPTIAN PROTESTERS

Sign the Avaaz petition "to stand with the people of Egypt in their demand for freedom and basic rights, an end to the crackdown and internet blackout, and immediate democratic reform. We call on our governments to join us in our solidarity with the Egyptian people.
Contact your elected representative and ask them to publicly demand that Egypt immediately halt all violence against the protesters and respect the freedoms of all Egpytians."

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Webform for email: www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Senators: You can find contact information for your senators here

Representatives: You can look up your representatives here

Or simply call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Also, you can contact the US State Department at (202) 647-4000. Word is you can only leave a message at this point, but it still helps to put pressure on them to act correctly.

Please also contact the Egyptian embassies in the U.S. and tell the Egyptian government to respect the rights of the people of Egypt.

Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
3521 International CTM.W.
Washington DC, 20008
Tel: (202) 895-5400
Fax: (202) 224-4319/5131

Ambassador's Residence
2301 Massachussetts St.
NW Washington DC, 20008

Egyptian Consulate -- New York
1110 2nd Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Tel: (212) 759-7120/1/2

Egyptian Consulate -- Chicago
30 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Egyptian Consulate -- Houston
2000 West Loop South
Houston, Texas 77027
Tel: (713) 961-4915/6, 961-4407

Egyptian Consulate -- San Francisco
3001 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, California 94115
Tel: (415) 346-9700/2

Direct Actions/Petitions:

CREDO Action (h/t cotterperson; description)

URGENT They're running out of medicine in Cairo; maxomai

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In-Depth Blog Posts or News Articles: if you link to them in the comments in child diaries, we'll add them here.

Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet, Wired's guide to reconnecting.

Juan Cole's background analysis of the causes of Egypt’s Class Conflict, posted on 01/30/2011, is one of the most important articles for Americans to read right now, per NBBooks.

Mondoweiss has a series of posts on Egypt.

Boing Boing's own posts and their Egypt news roundup

The Angry Arab News Service (As'ad Abu Khalil) has ongoing insights/commentary and a broad network of contacts in the Arab world (h/t sofia).

links to multimedia (videos and stuff) of Egypt protests

Salon article on the Mubarak regime's lobbyists

I applaud this Washington Post editorial.

Don't Fear the Muslim Brotherhood by the Brookings Institution (h/t bicycle Hussein paladin).

Teacher's Lounge: Teaching Cairo by annetteboardman (if enough teachers want to suggest lessons or teaching methods on this, I'll add a new section for teaching resources/suggestions)

The Arabist; Egyptian journalist, Iskandr El Amrani's blog (h/t soysauce)

alMasr Al-Youm:; Independent Egyptian media considered the most important outlet in Egypt; Arabic with English co-site. (h/t soysauce]

Latest Egyptian Antiquities News Kossack Thutmose V is tracking the story around the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.

Sharif Kouddous of DemocracyNow is in Egypt.

Global Guerillas USAF Intel, John Robb's blog who is covering the situation. h/t G2geek

NYTimes blog The Lede h/t fladem

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Many Kossaks have been covering this developing story. Here's a listing of the diaries posted since the events in Egypt started to unfold (Tuesday, January 25, 2011). Please check them out.