The Daily Background
| Egypt’s Revolutionaries Volunteer to Tidy up Tahrir Square
Filed at 8:52 am, Saturday February 12th 2011
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
So, not only do the Egyptians manage to peacefully unseat a dictator after 30 years of repressive reign, they even clean up afterwards:
As the impact of the revolution settled in, some members of the movement that toppled Mr. Mubarak vowed to continue their protest, saying that all their demands had not yet been met. In Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the new Egypt, protesters met in small clusters, arguing about the path forward, as thousands of volunteers cleaned the square.
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As soldiers removed some barricades on the square’s periphery, volunteers with brooms swept streets and scrubbed graffiti from a statue in a nearby square.
Hah! Best revolution ever.
So far so good. But, the civilians and the revolutionaries have to be very careful with the military. As we know, the military has been a part of the old regime and controls a substantial part of the economy. As such, they may prevent significant changes in the political economy of the country. Most importantly, democratization means the empowering of the civilian population against the state. The military may not want empower the people and accept civilian ascendancy.
Hope that Egypt can break with the past soon.
greeting i am glad to see that the people of egypt made it happen to finally be freed from the dictator for 30 years thats a very long time i am looking into maybe going to egypt to volunteer as i have that in my feeling to do that, but will figure out who to contact for that and just before i forget congratulations to the people of egypt it made me so proud of them and happy for them and if anyone has an idea who to contact to volunteer can reply to me thank you
hat in my feeling to do that, but will figure out who to contact for that and just before i forget co