Millions protesting in Egypt. Estimated to be the single largest in human history

[Luminous Animal]

[Luminous Animal]

1. Very informative and live updates here...

http://rt.com/news/egypt-milllions-protest-morsi-458/

[redwitch]

16. How beautiful!

I feel lifted up, bless these good people!

[xocet]

2. K & R n/t

[arely staircase]

3. holy shit

k&r

[TeeYiYi]

12. That's what I said!

Holy shit!

TYY

[wilsonbooks]

4. The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/mohamed-morsi-egypt-protests

Millions of Egyptians filled streets across Egypt on Sunday calling for the departure of Mohamed Morsi on Sunday, hours after the president told the Guardian he would not resign. A year to the day after Morsi's inauguration as Egypt's first democratically elected president, up to 500,000 protesters swelled Cairo's Tahrir Square calling for Morsi's removal. They then headed to Itahadiya, the presidential palace in the north-east of the city in the evening.

Security sources said that at least seven people were killed and more than 600 wounded in clashes between Morsi's supporters and opponents.Five of the dead were shot in towns south of Cairo, one each in Beni Suef and Fayoum and three in Assiut.Two more were killed by gunfire during an attack on the national headquarters of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood in a suburb of the capital, medical sources said.

Hundreds of people throwing petrol bombs and rocks attacked the building, which caught fire as guards and Brotherhood members inside the building exchanged gunfire with attackers.State news agency MENA reported that 11 were treated in hospital for birdshot wounds, and across the country, the health ministry said, 613 people were injured as a result of factional fighting in the streets.

In Alexandria, Egypt's second city, 100,000 rallied in the centre, with similar rallies reported in dozens of other Egyptian cities. The headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi's Islamist group, came under attack as night fell.A spokesman for Morsi said that the president knew he had m

[ErikJ]

5. Can anyone give the cliffnotes summary.

of whats happening in Egypt. I havent kept up on this whole Egypt story at all.

[riverwalker]

10. just catching up

But when do Muslims speak out against extremism? Oh, you know, when they had the biggest protest in human history.
#jun30 #june30 for updates

Message to the world from the Egyptian people:

[Luminous Animal]

22. +1

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Sure....

After the President of Egypt Anwar Sadat was openly assassinated during a military parade his general declared martial law and that condition was never lifted. Then he declared himself the new president without an election. Years later millions of young people, fed up with the fact that this asshole had been holding onto power since,....like FOREVER took to the streets to kick his ass out of power and the first time they decide to hold an election the right wing religious fanatics who assassinated the original president manage to get their guy in office. They did this through trickery and spitting the youth vote. Since then this new asshole has been trying to push through an even more oppressive agenda than the last guy.

So, like I said elsewhere,...I saw this coming.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. thank you! n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. All power to the Egyptian people! n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. I saw this coming.

[bravenak]

8. I knew this was gonna go down.

I don like their president, and neither do they.

[former9thward]

9. One American has been killed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of an American college student killed in Egypt during violent protests says their son cared passionately about the Middle East and was in the country to teach English to children and to improve his own Arabic.

Andrew Pochter, of Chevy Chase, Md., was killed Friday in Alexandria during clashes between government supporters and opponents. His family said in a statement Saturday that he was stabbed by a protester while observing the demonstrations.

"He went to Egypt because he cared profoundly about the Middle East. He had studied in the region, loved the culture, and planned to live and work there in the pursuit of peace and understanding," the statement said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/29/american-killed-egypt/2476205/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. If Cheney were in power we would be bombing them about now.

[riverwalker]

11. oh. my. god.

just got off 12 hour shift
looked at Twitter #june30 or #jun30
astonishing!

:large

[Chaco Dundee]

17. admirable

Those people have the nuts.unllike all you american patriots,

[cherokeeprogressive]

21. OOOH! That's gonna leave a mark...

Not.

[Newest Reality]

18. We may be

witnessing an echo of ourselves when we come to understand the true nature of our predicament and see what really matters most and what our parts our in this.

That is all.

[littlewolf]

19. read somewere google earth sez 14 MILLION ppl eom

[Cleita]

20. Events like this give me hope that maybe the human race

can take charge back from the 1%; from the old stagnant ways of doing things.

[felix_numinous]

23. Sheer numbers is all you've got

When every other avenue of expression is removed. Just the facts.

With all of the blatant election fraud, I think the 1% are banking that Americans will never turn out in similar numbers. They work hard to divide us and distract us so this won't happen--this is what the 1% fears.