Mahalla al-Kubra, the town in Egypt where I was arrested, is seeing protests again. This is at the Ghazl al-Mahalla factory, Misr Spinning and Weaving (Misr = “Egypt”). The factory is where the protests I covered began — it’s the largest textile mill in the middle east and, as is often true of labor, a good barometor for the political climate.
Here are Jaiku updates from those on the scene:
That we are able to get these updates via Jaiku shows how Jaiku has replaced Twitter as the social justice updating service of choice. Of course if Twitter is able to return SMS service we’d be delighted to welcome them back.
