Protests

As you may have heard several thousand Egyptians protested today and yesterday and throughout the night in between. Their demands are for better economic conditions, an end to rampant corruption, free/fair elections, and a term limit on the presidency (effectively not allowing Mubarak to run again). I have a few pictures and I'm getting more from my roomate. I'll show you what I have when I get back I think. They look alot like any other pictures you'd be able to find in the media. In my neighborhood its been business as usual although Tahrir Square (mentioned in an earlier post) is about 2 miles away. That's were alot of the protesters gathered and where a large crackdown was. To be clear these protests are going on throughout all of Egypt, I only know much about the Cairo activity. If I remember correctly it was in Suez or Alexandria where there were a few deaths. Some may have died here too, but no first ammendment rights make it tough to know anything. We're expecting a lull in the protests until after Friday noon prayer. Twitter and almost all local media outlets were shut down yesterday and today Facebook was blocked. This is because Twitter and Facebook were used extensively to organize the protests.

So far we're all very much safe.