Protesters in Cairo have turned out en masse yet again following yesterday's largest ever demonstration. Crowds have once more spilled out of Tahrir Square and into a nearby plaza housing government buildings. This has prompted government officials move location and meet elsewhere in the capital city.
Members of the labor sector have also joined the protests. Labor Unions have gone on strike and many social services employees and even members of the state sponsored media have joined the protesters in Tahrir Square.
Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman warns against the risk of a coup if the protests continue much longer and their demands are not met.
Google Executive Wael Ghonim has called for the immediate dissolution of the current regime. He says that it is not the time for negotiation. He said the Egyptian government did their negotiating in the streets, "with rubber bullets, and with clubs, with fire hoses, with tear gas canisters, and by arresting some 500 of us..."
Ghonim suggested that Mohamed ElBaradai or a few specific judges might make good interim leaders.
Ghonim is considered by many in Egypt to be a hero for his work organizing the protesters in the beginning and for enduring days of captivity, and many in the news world see him as the "face of the revolution" which had for so long been missing. Ghonim himself waves off these titles, saying that he himself is not a hero. He says that all he did was sit at a keyboard and that the real heroes were the ones in the streets.
Members of the labor sector have also joined the protests. Labor Unions have gone on strike and many social services employees and even members of the state sponsored media have joined the protesters in Tahrir Square.
Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman warns against the risk of a coup if the protests continue much longer and their demands are not met.
Google Executive Wael Ghonim has called for the immediate dissolution of the current regime. He says that it is not the time for negotiation. He said the Egyptian government did their negotiating in the streets, "with rubber bullets, and with clubs, with fire hoses, with tear gas canisters, and by arresting some 500 of us..."
Ghonim suggested that Mohamed ElBaradai or a few specific judges might make good interim leaders.
Ghonim is considered by many in Egypt to be a hero for his work organizing the protesters in the beginning and for enduring days of captivity, and many in the news world see him as the "face of the revolution" which had for so long been missing. Ghonim himself waves off these titles, saying that he himself is not a hero. He says that all he did was sit at a keyboard and that the real heroes were the ones in the streets.
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