Demonstrate solidarity with the Arab revolutions! 26 Feb 2011
Saturday 26 February 2011
from 2pm, The Mound, Princes Street, Edinburgh
Watch video of protest.
Scottish PSC will be on Princes Street on Saturday to support the appeal by Scotland's Libyan, Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni communities to show our solidarity with the Arab revolutions.
Join us and make our support clear to the people in Libya and Yemen fighting for their freedom and resisting dictatorship, being killed by the brutal regimes armed by Britain and for so long supported by the West.
Tony Blair, Sarkozy, the apartheid state of Israel, the US and other Western powers supported the dictatorships of the Middle East for decades. Join us to demonstrate our revulsion at our governments direct complicity with these regimes and to demonstrate our solidarity with the people of Tunisia and Egypt, who have inspired all of us who stand for justice and freedom and who still need our ongoing support and solidarity to finally end the dictatorships of Ben Ali and Mubarak.
Saturday 26 February 2011
from 2pm, The Mound, Princes Street, Edinburgh
Also: Public meeting Monday 28 February 2011
7.30pm, Eric Liddell Centre, Morningside Road, Edinburgh
Statements from Scotland's Tunisian, Egyptian and Yemeni communities:
24 February 2011
Tunisian Community
"If, one day, a people desire to live - Then fate will answer their call
And the night will then begin to fade - And the chains break and fall."
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (Tunisian poet)
People have died, mothers gave their sons, wives gave their husbands and children gave their parents for us to breathe freedom. Now the chains have been broken and we thank our Lord Almighty. We pray that others will taste the sweetness of freedom soon. We urge you to resist until you obtain this wonderful right. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Go Palestine Go Libya we are all with you.
Egyptian Community
If we compare how the Middle East countries obtained their dependency during the 50th and 60th of last century with what is going on now, we are definitely waiting for a complete new Middle East. Those who are leading the revolutions now are the people themselves, not as it was by military forces with completely different mentality. They are more aware of the changes happening worldwide and the critical scenarios in the region. The internal and external challenges are clearer and they are sure on how it can be tackled. It is a new world soon that will surprise the all world, as it surprised the world when the chain of uprisings blew up.
We pay tribute to all the martyrs who pay their invaluable lives for their nations in order to get back their freedom, dignity, justice, equality, democracy and peace. We will never forget those great people who taught the whole world a brilliant lesson of braveness and purity. Yet, the revolution just started and what happened across our countries is just one step, but no doubt a huge one, and we still need to work very hard to rebuild our country and establish a real democracy that enable us to stand side by side to free our lands from the Zionists.
Yemeni Community
Yemen linked some of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East by virtue of its location in South Arabialand. It is the land of Queen Sheba and the origin of Mocha coffee.
The 33's Ali Saleh, president of Yemen, grip on power will come to the end shortly. This is the message sent by the Yemeni people to the dictator recently. Yemeni People are protesting on a daily basis over the whole country. They already forced the dictator to offer many deals. However, the Yemenis have only one voice, i.e.; the regime has to be overthrown. The regime has responded aggressively using several kinds of weapons without any sense of humanity and responsibility.
At least 87 protesters were injured in a bomb attack on an anti-government protest in Taiz (the most populated city in Yemen) on Friday 17th February, according to medical sources. Sources said that four protesters are in critical condition.
Thousands of students are protesting in the University of Sanaa. Yesterday, the regime attacked them and 2 students killed and many were injured.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses in Aden, southern Yemen, said that police directly fired at anti-government protesters in the cities of al-Mansoura and Sheikh Othman Saturday afternoon. Details on casualties are not yet available.
The opposition Joint Meeting Parties held President Saleh responsible for protesters killed in Aden and Taiz. In Taiz, more than hundred thousands of protesters are heading from rural areas outside the city to gather in al-Huriya Square in a protest against the regime. The protesters, most of them are youth, intend to stay in the square over night. The other major cities are organising similar campaign against the regime. The Yemenis have strong determination to end the era of President Ali Saleh and establish a new state of democracy, equality and freedom.