Hero/Hack: Patriotic Dissent
My hero this week is Egyptian blogger and free speech activist Alaa Abd El-Fatah was arrested by the Egyptian government last Saturday. It is horrible that someone who has been working for peaceful change in the Middle East has been detained by the Egyptian government. Please sign this petition to help free Alaa. Yesterday, he managed to get some word out from prison by passing ia handwritten note to someone so they could post it to a blog (link).
Freeman Hunt: "Protesters in the US need to look at these protesters in Egypt. This is bravery. This is 'patriotic dissent.'"
This isn't the only thing happening in Egypt this week. They get the hack designation. The Mubarak regime, that is.
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