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The Egyptian embassy in Dasma Village, Makati, Part II

Posted: April 25, 2011 in Attention DFA!, Egypt, Foreign embassies in Dasma Village, Foreign embassies in Makati, Makati, Philippine foreign policy, Tahrir Square, the tony Dasma Village in Makati
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I knew it! Sort of…. The Dasma Village guards gave us (me and my students in International Political Economy at UP Diliman) the “royal” run-around when we tried to deliver a letter of support for the Egyptian people in the struggle against the Mubarak regime last January. This after we told the same guards that [...]

Where’s the Egyptian embassy in Makati?

Posted: February 12, 2011 in Arab people power, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak
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Last 31 January, I, together with my graduate students in International Political Economy (IPE) at the University of the Philippines, tried to deliver a letter to the Egyptian Embassy in the Philippines. The letter expressed our solidarity with the Egyptians struggling for freedom and human dignity and our concern on the violent police crackdown on [...]

Viva Egypt! Viva Bouazizi! Viva the Egyptian 300+!

Posted: February 12, 2011 in April 6 Youth Movement, Arab people power, Barack Obama, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jordan, Kefaya, Muslim Brotherhood, Non-violent politics, People power, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Yemen
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Viva Egypt! After 18 days of non-stop, non-violent protests, marches, and general strikes, former air force general and supreme leader of Egypt for the last 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, skedaddles to a Sinai peninsula resort town while his designated VP Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak has resigned as Egypt’s president. The chairman of the Grand [...]

body politics, ver. 1.2

Posted: February 4, 2011 in Arab people power, Arlo Mendoza, Body politics, Corruption, Corruption in the military, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Jordan, Mocha Girls, Mocha Uson, Non-violent politics, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People power, PETA, PPSA, Tweet, Twitter, Vene Rallonza, Yemen
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In December last year, a humiliated fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, burned himself and sparked what is now known as the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia that sent long-entrenched dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, his family and cronies packing their bags and ill-gotten loot and skedaddling  to Saudi Arabia and to parts unknown after that. And Tunisia proved to be the [...]

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