30 years of injustice will need more than 3 days of persistence, all the Egyptians must take that as a fact.
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Egypt: from 2011 demonstrations to today (12 Viewers)
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I should have gotten it 12 years ago 
From Guardian: summary of the day's events:
• Egypt's army said for the first time that it would not use force on protesters, declaring in a televised statement that "freedom of expression through peaceful means is guaranteed," and said it recognised the "legitimate demands" of the protesters.
• The Mubarak regime made its first public offer to speak directly to protesters, as newly-appointed vice president Omar Suleiman offered to hold talks with members of the opposition during an appearance on state television.
• Plans are underway for a "march of millions" and a general strike on Tuesday as protests intensify and pressure on the Mubarak regime is maintained for a week.
• Al-Jazeera journalists in Cairo are arrested by Egyptian security forces and then released after strong intervention from the White House and other governments.
• Egypt's last functioning commercial internet service provider is shut down, while the government appears to be canceling train services and public transport ahead of Tuesday's protests.
• The US announced that a special US envoy to Egypt is in Cairo and holding talks with members of the government and other actors. The White House continued to call for an "orderly transition" of power and democratic reforms.
• Egypt's army said for the first time that it would not use force on protesters, declaring in a televised statement that "freedom of expression through peaceful means is guaranteed," and said it recognised the "legitimate demands" of the protesters.
• The Mubarak regime made its first public offer to speak directly to protesters, as newly-appointed vice president Omar Suleiman offered to hold talks with members of the opposition during an appearance on state television.
• Plans are underway for a "march of millions" and a general strike on Tuesday as protests intensify and pressure on the Mubarak regime is maintained for a week.
• Al-Jazeera journalists in Cairo are arrested by Egyptian security forces and then released after strong intervention from the White House and other governments.
• Egypt's last functioning commercial internet service provider is shut down, while the government appears to be canceling train services and public transport ahead of Tuesday's protests.
• The US announced that a special US envoy to Egypt is in Cairo and holding talks with members of the government and other actors. The White House continued to call for an "orderly transition" of power and democratic reforms.
Well-written articleGoogle Inc launched a special service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail, as Internet access remains cut off in the country amid anti-government protests.
"Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground," read a post on Google's official corporate blog on Monday.
The service, which Google said was developed with engineers from Twitter, allows people to dial a telephone number and leave a voicemail. The voicemail is automatically translated into an audio file message that is sent on Twitter using the identifying tag #egypt, Google said.
Google said in the blog post, titled "Some weekend work that will (hopefully)
enable more Egyptians to be heard," that no Internet connection is needed to use the service.
It listed three phone numbers for people to call to use the service.
Internet social networking services like Twitter and Facebook have been important tools of communications for protesters in Egypt who have taken to the streets since last week to demonstrate against the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
Internet service has been suspended around the country and phone text messaging has been disabled.
A source familiar with the matter said Google, whose corporate motto is "Don't Be Evil," was not taking sides in the crisis in Egypt, but was simply supporting access to information as it has done with other services such as video website YouTube.
YouTube has been streaming live coverage of Al Jazeera's broadcasts of the events in Egypt.
Dozens of the so-called speak-to-tweet messages were featured on Twitter on Monday. The messages ranged from a few seconds to several minutes and featured people identifying themselves as Egyptians and describing the situations in various parts of the country.
"The government is spreading rumors of fear and of burglary and of violence," said one of the messages from an English speaker. "The only incidence of theft and burglary are done by the police themselves."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/us-egypt-protest-google-idUKTRE71005F20110201
"Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground," read a post on Google's official corporate blog on Monday.
The service, which Google said was developed with engineers from Twitter, allows people to dial a telephone number and leave a voicemail. The voicemail is automatically translated into an audio file message that is sent on Twitter using the identifying tag #egypt, Google said.
Google said in the blog post, titled "Some weekend work that will (hopefully)
enable more Egyptians to be heard," that no Internet connection is needed to use the service.
It listed three phone numbers for people to call to use the service.
Internet social networking services like Twitter and Facebook have been important tools of communications for protesters in Egypt who have taken to the streets since last week to demonstrate against the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
Internet service has been suspended around the country and phone text messaging has been disabled.
A source familiar with the matter said Google, whose corporate motto is "Don't Be Evil," was not taking sides in the crisis in Egypt, but was simply supporting access to information as it has done with other services such as video website YouTube.
YouTube has been streaming live coverage of Al Jazeera's broadcasts of the events in Egypt.
Dozens of the so-called speak-to-tweet messages were featured on Twitter on Monday. The messages ranged from a few seconds to several minutes and featured people identifying themselves as Egyptians and describing the situations in various parts of the country.
"The government is spreading rumors of fear and of burglary and of violence," said one of the messages from an English speaker. "The only incidence of theft and burglary are done by the police themselves."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/us-egypt-protest-google-idUKTRE71005F20110201