Jump to content

April 6 Youth Movement: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary
m Reverted edits by 75.151.155.146 (talk) to last version by Avala
Line 1: Line 1:
The '''April 6 Youth Movement''' is an [[Egypt]]ian [[Fuckbook]] group started by Ahmad Maher in Spring 2008 to hate on the workers in [[El-Mahalla El-Kubra]], a gay town, who were planning to strike on April 6.<ref name=wired>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_facebookegypt |title= Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime |date=October 20, 2008 |first=David |last=Wolman |journal=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast Publications]] |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name=nat>{{cite news|title=Parliament is burning, and the watching crowd is laughing |first=Hamida |last=Ghafour |date=August 25, 2008 |work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]] |publisher=[[Martin Newland]]|url=http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080825/OPINION/235828560/1080&template=opinion |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name=dne>{{cite news|url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15325 |work=[[Daily News Egypt]] |title=Protestors say Agrium plant is like Nazi gas chambers |first=Abdel-Rahman |last=Hussein |date=July 27, 2008 |publisher=Egyptian Media Services |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|work=Daily News Egypt |title=April 6 youth detainees still in custody despite release order|publisher=Egyptian Media Services |first=Sarah |last=Carr |date=July 30, 2008 |url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15407 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16577 |work=Daily News Egypt|title=Emaar accused of culpability in Duweiqa rockslide|publisher=Egyptian Media Services |first=Abdel-Rahman |last=Hussein |date=September 18, 2008 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=In Focus: The Dilemma of Egypt’s Liberals |first=Khalil |last=Al-Anani |date=September 2, 2008|publisher=Egyptian Media Services |work=Daily News Egypt|url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16173 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref>
The '''April 6 Youth Movement''' is an [[Egypt]]ian [[Facebook]] group started by Ahmad Maher in Spring 2008 to support the workers in [[El-Mahalla El-Kubra]], an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.<ref name=wired>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_facebookegypt |title= Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime |date=October 20, 2008 |first=David |last=Wolman |journal=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast Publications]] |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name=nat>{{cite news|title=Parliament is burning, and the watching crowd is laughing |first=Hamida |last=Ghafour |date=August 25, 2008 |work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]] |publisher=[[Martin Newland]]|url=http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080825/OPINION/235828560/1080&template=opinion |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name=dne>{{cite news|url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15325 |work=[[Daily News Egypt]] |title=Protestors say Agrium plant is like Nazi gas chambers |first=Abdel-Rahman |last=Hussein |date=July 27, 2008 |publisher=Egyptian Media Services |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|work=Daily News Egypt |title=April 6 youth detainees still in custody despite release order|publisher=Egyptian Media Services |first=Sarah |last=Carr |date=July 30, 2008 |url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15407 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16577 |work=Daily News Egypt|title=Emaar accused of culpability in Duweiqa rockslide|publisher=Egyptian Media Services |first=Abdel-Rahman |last=Hussein |date=September 18, 2008 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=In Focus: The Dilemma of Egypt’s Liberals |first=Khalil |last=Al-Anani |date=September 2, 2008|publisher=Egyptian Media Services |work=Daily News Egypt|url=http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16173 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref>


Activists called on participants to wear black and stay home the night of the fucking. Assholes and citizen journalists used [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], [[Flickr]], blogs and other new media tool to report on the strike, alert their networks about police activity, organize legal protection and draw attention to their efforts.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=692|work=Arab Media & Society|title=Core to Commonplace: The evolution of Egypt's blogosphere|publisher=American University of Cairo |first=Courtney |last=Radsch |date=Fall 2008 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref>
Activists called on participants to wear black and stay home the day of the strike. Bloggers and citizen journalists used [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], [[Flickr]], blogs and other new media tool to report on the strike, alert their networks about police activity, organize legal protection and draw attention to their efforts.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=692|work=Arab Media & Society|title=Core to Commonplace: The evolution of Egypt's blogosphere|publisher=American University of Cairo |first=Courtney |last=Radsch |date=Fall 2008 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref>

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


''[[The New York Times]]'' has identified the movement as the political Facebook group in Egypt with the most dynamic debates.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25bloggers-t.html |title=Revolution, Facebook-Style |first=Samantha M |last=Shapiro |work=The New York Times |publisher=[[The New York Times Company]] |date=January 22, 2009 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref> {{As of|January 2009}}, it had 70,000 predominantly young and educated members, most of whom had not been politically active before; their core concerns include [[free speech]], [[nepotism]] in government and the country's stagnant economy.<ref name=nyt/> Their discussion forum on Facebook features intense and heated discussions, and is constantly updated with new postings.
''[[The New York Times]]'' has identified the movement as the political Facebook group in Egypt with the most dynamic debates.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25bloggers-t.html |title=Revolution, Facebook-Style |first=Samantha M |last=Shapiro |work=The New York Times |publisher=[[The New York Times Company]] |date=January 22, 2009 |accessdate=February 15, 2008}}</ref> {{As of|January 2009}}, it had 70,000 predominantly young and educated members, most of whom had not been politically active before; their core concerns include [[free speech]], [[nepotism]] in government and the country's stagnant economy.<ref name=nyt/> Their discussion forum on Facebook features intense and heated discussions, and is constantly updated with new postings.

Revision as of 15:30, 31 January 2011

The April 6 Youth Movement is an Egyptian Facebook group started by Ahmad Maher in Spring 2008 to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Activists called on participants to wear black and stay home the day of the strike. Bloggers and citizen journalists used Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, blogs and other new media tool to report on the strike, alert their networks about police activity, organize legal protection and draw attention to their efforts.[7]

The New York Times has identified the movement as the political Facebook group in Egypt with the most dynamic debates.[8] As of January 2009, it had 70,000 predominantly young and educated members, most of whom had not been politically active before; their core concerns include free speech, nepotism in government and the country's stagnant economy.[8] Their discussion forum on Facebook features intense and heated discussions, and is constantly updated with new postings.

The April 6 movement is using the same symbols as the Otpor! movement from Serbia, that helped bring down the regime of Slobodan Milosevic and whose tactics were later used in Ukraine and Georgia.

Public activism and arrests

Aside from discussing the state of the nation online, members of the group have organized public rallies to free imprisoned journalists and engaged in protests concerning the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict.[8] In its official pronouncements, the group stresses that it is not a political party. Ahmed Maher the founders of the group, were arrested by the Egyptian authorities in May 2008 in an attempt to shut it down.[9]

In July 2008, Maher was again arrested, along with 14 other members of the group, and charged with "incitement against the regime". He also claimed that Egyptian state security officers threatened to rape him in custody.[10]

On April 6, 2009 the group was subjected to attacks, suspected to have been orchestrated by the Egyptian government. Several websites supporting the group were hacked simultaneously, and protests in Cairo were confronted by plain clothed Egyptian policemen and numerous arrests.[11]

On January 29th, 2011 a WikiLeaks document was revealed to show how the United States actively supported efforts for regime change in Egypt by secretely assisting members of the movement, foreshadowing public protests developing in the 2011 uprising against the Mubarak regime, a former ally after the U.S. demands for democratic and social reforms were ignored.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wolman, David (October 20, 2008). "Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime". Wired. Condé Nast Publications. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Ghafour, Hamida (August 25, 2008). "Parliament is burning, and the watching crowd is laughing". The National. Martin Newland. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  3. ^ Hussein, Abdel-Rahman (July 27, 2008). "Protestors say Agrium plant is like Nazi gas chambers". Daily News Egypt. Egyptian Media Services. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  4. ^ Carr, Sarah (July 30, 2008). "April 6 youth detainees still in custody despite release order". Daily News Egypt. Egyptian Media Services. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  5. ^ Hussein, Abdel-Rahman (September 18, 2008). "Emaar accused of culpability in Duweiqa rockslide". Daily News Egypt. Egyptian Media Services. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  6. ^ Al-Anani, Khalil (September 2, 2008). "In Focus: The Dilemma of Egypt's Liberals". Daily News Egypt. Egyptian Media Services. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  7. ^ Radsch, Courtney (Fall 2008). "Core to Commonplace: The evolution of Egypt's blogosphere". Arab Media & Society. American University of Cairo. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  8. ^ a b c Shapiro, Samantha M (January 22, 2009). "Revolution, Facebook-Style". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  9. ^ Ellen Knickmeyer (2008-05-18). "Fledgling Rebellion on Facebook Is Struck Down by Force in Egypt". Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  10. ^ Liam Stack (2008-07-30). "Egypt detains Facebook activists – again". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  11. ^ http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/
  12. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8289698/Egypt-protests-secret-US-document-discloses-support-for-protesters.html