Egypt Struggles for Genuine Democracy and Freedom
When the people of Egypt rose up on January 25, 2010, this was our message to the brave people of Egypt:
Mubarak has to go! MAKIBAKA, HUWAG MATAKOT!
We came out in droves and
joined Egyptians in the United States in solidarity and now in the celebrations
of their precious victory. We pay our s highest tribute towards the militant
people of Egypt and their martyrs for this victory!
We were appalled with the Mubarak's declaration as he refuses to step down. It was a blatant provocation, a clear slap on the face against the people of United States. But he eventually stepped down after the military told him it his time to go.
We also condemned the "fence-sitting" stratagem of the US government. It was terribly disconcerting as the President issues press releases, speaking of freedom and democracy yet action to push for this goal is absent.
This inaction and dilly-dallying shows support for Mubarak's ‘orderly transition process” keeping the tyrant in power for the next six months, but later Obama went out to praise the valor of the Egyptian youth for the revolution.
The Filipino American community salutes Egyptians in their millions. Those whom for the past 18 days, are still running through the streets, rising together in arms to repudiate a regime of oppression, to put an end to the servility to US imperialism.
Fight for People’s Democracy and Freedom
We, the American people are ecstatic to the fact that Egyptians are finally asserting their sovereign power. Worker unions and youth organizations who are leading the way to liberation and freedom!
We will continue to support the brave people of Egypt with the course they may take. We have taken to the streets in support of your just struggle. Egypt has a glorious history of nationalism and struggle.
Egypt stood against imperialism and western powers during the Suez canal crisis of 1956 and became a beacon against the lackeys of Imperialism in the near east. They reclaimed this glorious tradition even at their defeat during the 1967 war and again during the war for national salvation in 1973 where they regained their mettle.
It was during the Mubarak dictatorship where Egypt became the pariah of the Arab world. Mubarak is a dwarf compared to Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. They were despots but the people still lvoed them because they were Arab nationalist and for Nasser a staunch anti-imrerialist.
Mubarak chose to kowtow to Israel, align himself the united States and with with the reactionary Saudis kings and dictators of the near-east, Mubarak plunged Egypt into the abyss of poverty and oppression.
Now Egypt is again proud to be Egypt!
If and when they need to have a social revolution to forge the path for national liberation and Arab solidarity, the Filipino-American community will always be behind them.
True democracy and national salvation for Egypt and its people!
