the Armchair of El Diablo

Senior tech editor at The Atlantic, @alexismadrigal, scores and publishes the pamphlets being used to organise the Egyptian protest marshes that due to kick off in earnest in a few hours.

Nice scoop. But scary stuff. Note the warning “Please distribute by email and phone and print only: Twitter and facebook are being monitored”.

The protests will be taking place amid pretty grave concerns for safety. Word is the full internet black out occurred 10 minutes after AAP uploaded video of an Egyptian protester being shot (I won’t link to it, but if you need to see it look on the AAP site). 

#Egypt is trending in twitter pretty solidly. There seem to be a lot of understandably very nervous folk there. 

Here’s wishing them safety.

28 January 2011

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• Egypt
• protests

As I walked to lunch it up in the Domain, Vietnamese Government officials were visiting NSW Government House. A small but loud protest group had set themselves opposite, crying out against the ‘communist dictators’ on the street.

I chatted briefly with an older, smiling Vietnamese gent on the street who handed out fliers. “Very bad. Very bad government, yes”, he kept repeating. He seemed friendly, sincere.

 I admit, I’m fairly oblivious to the situation in Vietnam, so I checked out their website. There seems to be a fair bit going on I’m ignorant about. 

25 August 2010

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• Vietnam
• Protests