Egyptian youth and opposition groups band together to form a national coalition

Egypt revolution youth form national coalition
Youth and opposition groups band together form a coalition that hopes to represent the increasing number of protesters
by Salma Shukrallah
February 9, 2011

Hoping to create a form of representation for themselves, many young activists have banded to form a coalition called “The Revolution's Youth”. Groups involved include the 6 April Youth movement, Justice and Freedom, Muslim Brotherhood youth, ElBaradei's campaign, The Popular Democratic Movement for Change (HASHD), The Democratic Front and Khaled Saeed Facebook group administrators. The coalition has 14 group representatives in total and a general assembly with a few hundred members.

The group representatives include Ahmed Maher and Mahmoud Samy from the 6 April Youth movement, ElBaradei supporters Ziad Alimy and Abdel Rahman Samir, Islam Lotfy and Mohamed Abbas from the Muslim Brotherhood, Shady Ghazali Harb and Amr Salah from the Democratic Front Party and from the Youth for Justice and Freedom, Khaled Sayed and Mostafa Shaki.

Additionally, Wael Ghoneim, one of the founders of the Facebook group “Kolona Khaled Said” (We are all Khaled Said), as well as independent activitsts Naser Abdel Hamid, Abdel Rahman Faris and Sally Moore are also members.

According to Ahmed Ezzat, a HASHD and coalition member, the coalition is still expanding and intends to include other young and diverse political trends that have been part of Egypt's political sphere over the past few past years.

Read the full article at:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/5257/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-revolution-youth-form-national-coalition.aspx

who explained a lot of inside baseball stuff around these groups. http://bit.ly/g66zv1

It was nice to see the actual person. :)

Looks like that shoot was about him.

I see women all over the place in this movement. They seem to be as if not more active than men on social media, they're all over the media, period, as journalists and as experts. But what I think I have noticed is that for some reason, the indy media produces more images of them than the corporate media. Still testing that.

This is one who is very active and who has been all over the media. She helped expand the protesters turf out to the Parliament Building.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/9/after_record_level_turnout_in_tahrir

Would love to see some female voices involved in negotiations. Why do men have to run everything? Thanks for that link!

Asmaa Mahfouz & the YouTube Video that Helped Spark the Egyptian Uprising

Three weeks ago today, 26-year-old Egyptian activist Asmaa Mahfouz posted a video online urging people to protest the “corrupt government” of Hosni Mubarak by rallying in Tahrir Square on January 25. Her moving call ultimately helped inspire Egypt’s uprising. "I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square, and I will stand alone. And I’ll hold up a banner. Perhaps people will show some honor,” Mahfouz said. "Don’t think you can be safe anymore. None of us are. Come down with us and demand your rights, my rights, your family’s rights. I am going down on January 25th and will say no to corruption, no to this regime."

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/8/asmaa_mahfouz_the_youtube_video_that

The only all male groups I've seen on live coverage are the guys in the rock wars.