At least six protesters in Egypt have already been killed in the recent protests, many more injured. Today is going to be the biggest day of protests yet.
Overnight the Internet, SMS, and according to some reports, landlines too, are down.
We need an immediate global response to make sure that the Egyptian government doesn’t use the cover of this communications blackout to carry out a massacre of its own citizens. The protests will start just after noon and Egypt is two hours ahead of us, so please take action as soon as you possibly can.
Things you can do:
1) Invite all your friends to the Facebook event.
2) Call the Egyptian embassy on 02074993304 (alternative number 02074992401) and tell them that if protesters are killed in the communications blackout then we will boycott Egypt and demand that our politicians do all that they can to support the citizens of Egypt against state violence. (If you ring early and they say they aren’t there yet then ask them to take a message, tell them why you’re calling even if they say no, and of course ring back later anyway.)
I think this is their email address:
emb_london@mfa.gov.eg CC london@mfa.gov.eg.
3) Call the Foreign Office on 020 7008 1500, and ask them what the UK government is doing to prevent a massacre from happening in Egypt today. (They’re there in the middle of the night too. They say they can’t take messages, but if lots of people ring I’m sure they’ll mention it. And of course ring back in the morning.
These are all email addresses, but might not be very useful. Calling is more important. information.cairo@fco.gov.uk,
economic.cairo@fco.gov.uk, consular.cairo@fco.gov.uk
4) Find out your MP’s contact details and call, email and fax them (don’t just email, try and do at least one of the others). Tell them that this is a humanitarian emergency and ask them what action they can take.
5) Contact the media, ask them to cover what’s happening, including the communications blackout.
Contact the BBC from here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4030000/newsid_4032600/4032695.stm
And on Twitter – @BBCNews, @BBCBreaking, @BBCWorld
Contact ITV on 0844 88 14150, and at viewerservices@itv.com
Contact Sky on news@sky.com, newsonline@bskyb.com, radio@bskyb.com
Add any details for other media as a comment to this post. Also keep an eye on coverage and post here if any of them are doing well or badly.
6) Facebook/tweet/email heavily about all of the above.
7) Find news. Share any sources you find that are still online in Egypt. Be wary of rumours, but repost any photos or news from various sources as widely as possible. Here’s a list of people in Egypt who can still tweet.
Post any other ideas as comments and we’ll add them.
Join the Facebook event.
http://thetopsoil.org.uk/2011/133
We need an immediate global response to make sure that the Egyptian government doesn’t use the cover of this communications blackout to carry out a massacre of its own citizens. The protests will start just after noon and Egypt is two hours ahead of us, so please take action as soon as you possibly can.
Things you can do:
1) Invite all your friends to the Facebook event.
2) Call the Egyptian embassy on 02074993304 (alternative number 02074992401) and tell them that if protesters are killed in the communications blackout then we will boycott Egypt and demand that our politicians do all that they can to support the citizens of Egypt against state violence. (If you ring early and they say they aren’t there yet then ask them to take a message, tell them why you’re calling even if they say no, and of course ring back later anyway.)
I think this is their email address:
emb_london@mfa.gov.eg CC london@mfa.gov.eg. 3) Call the Foreign Office on 020 7008 1500, and ask them what the UK government is doing to prevent a massacre from happening in Egypt today. (They’re there in the middle of the night too. They say they can’t take messages, but if lots of people ring I’m sure they’ll mention it. And of course ring back in the morning.
These are all email addresses, but might not be very useful. Calling is more important.
information.cairo@fco.gov.uk, economic.cairo@fco.gov.uk, consular.cairo@fco.gov.uk 4) Find out your MP’s contact details and call, email and fax them (don’t just email, try and do at least one of the others). Tell them that this is a humanitarian emergency and ask them what action they can take.
5) Contact the media, ask them to cover what’s happening, including the communications blackout.
Contact the BBC from here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4030000/newsid_4032600/4032695.stm And on Twitter – @BBCNews, @BBCBreaking, @BBCWorld
Contact ITV on 0844 88 14150, and at
viewerservices@itv.com Contact Sky on
news@sky.com, newsonline@bskyb.com, radio@bskyb.com Add any details for other media as a comment to this post. Also keep an eye on coverage and post here if any of them are doing well or badly.
6) Facebook/tweet/email heavily about all of the above.
7) Find news. Share any sources you find that are still online in Egypt. Be wary of rumours, but repost any photos or news from various sources as widely as possible. Here’s a list of people in Egypt who can still tweet.
Post any other ideas as comments and we’ll add them.
Join the Facebook event.
http://thetopsoil.org.uk/2011/133
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facebook link?
28.01.2011 10:11
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It's happened before
28.01.2011 10:32
Membership of the Syrian brotherhood remains a capital offence despite their hosting of Hamas - this sort of contradiction is why Syria remains the one actual caliphate according to Robert Fisk.
This is more reminiscent of the Iranian revolution, nasty western dictator overthrown, only to be replaced with a regime that while not worse, certainly isn't what we'd recognise as revolutionary.
Danny
Homepage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_massacre
facebook link
28.01.2011 10:40
hurriyah
Egypt off the internet - and no, it wasn't Anonymous
28.01.2011 11:06
The Egyptian government is restricting internet access and mobile phone coverage ahead of what are expected to be the week's largest demonstrations later today.
As this blogpost from Renesys notes the website for the Egyptian Stock Exchange might be available, but little else is. European-Asian fibre-optics appear unaffected but: "Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air."
When this sort of thing happened in Iraq, what real activist-hackers did was they went in and worked with locals to set up alternate routes for existing networks, at great personal risk. Hopefully there are people in Egypt working on this just now. Because of the speed of revolutions, the same people won't have time to stop this abuse of power if they are starting from scratch, it takes a lot of time and money, and safe local contacts. It would be good to have a team of people ready to reconnect any people whose state decides to unplug them. Presently, Egyptians won't be seeing the Facebook links.
xMCSE
More info / advice
28.01.2011 11:49
90% of MPs email addresses are their surname followed by first letter of their christian name @ parliament.uk for eg. John Bercow is
Tool to email MP and embassy simultaneously:
action
Today 3pm Egyptian Embassy
28.01.2011 12:39
Show solidarity with mass demos expected in Eypt.
John Simmons
internet in egypt
28.01.2011 13:33
Seems like DNS servers are turned off in Egypt.
Use google’s public DNS: 8.8.8.8
Call to all Egyptians outside of Egypt who want to help!
send this message to any Egyptian you know in your addressbook!
whether gmail or hotmail or yahoo, because facebook is now blocked in Egypt!
If you want to one of the following websites, enter the given address inside the address bar :
Facebook: 69.63.189.34
Twitter, enter : 128.242.240.52
Google : 72.14.204.99
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UPDATE #1:
Dial-up ISP is working. DSL still working in Egypt, Try their Dial-up numbers (0777 7770) & (0777 7000)
UPDATE #2:
It is confirmed that NOOR DSL is working since the STOCK MARKET & BANKS are connected to it
source: Planet.Ubuntu
Still.Anonymous
Watercannon for Indymedia
28.01.2011 16:58
If I am the last non-cop posting here, and I stop posting, will the rest of you promise to turn off the lights and stop entrapping people?
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