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April 6 Youth Movement

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Template:Rescue The April 6 Youth Movement is a Facebook group with more than 70,000 members that was started last Spring by Esraa Rashid and Ahmad Maher to support the workers in Mahalla al-Kobra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ Shapiro, Samantha M (January 22, 2009). "Revolution, Facebook-Style". The New York Times. The New York Times Company.
  2. ^ Wolman, David (October 20, 2008). "Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime". Wired. Condé Nast Publications.
  3. ^ Ghafour, Hamida (August 25, 2008). "Parliament is burning, and the watching crowd is laughing". The National. Martin Newland.
  4. ^ Hussein, Abdel-Rahman (July 27, 2008). "Protestors say Agrium plant is like Nazi gas chambers". Daily News Egypt. Egyptian Media Services.