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radpowers 02/16/2011 06:49 PM Report
Call it The Broomstick Revolution. After seeing the video of the bus driver many mothers came out the first day with broomsticks. They soon carried flags. They swept out the regime.
REMant 02/16/2011 02:10 PM Report
This aspect of the Egypt situation reminds me of the student protests arising out of the Berkeley Free Speech movement in the mid-60's and culminating, at the height of the Vietnam War, in campus boycotts and sit-ins. As a result, many universities added a few students to their governing bodies, but did nothing more than that. They did not become like some medieval universities where students paid their teachers and basically called the shots. Supposedly meritocratic, they remain essentially autocratic institutions, and the grading, vetting, and tenure systems have stayed in place. As he said, both the old govt's party and the Islamists have a considerable head start, as well as, Mr Sawiri's.