I am Tallulah

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Name: Tallulah
Location: Canada/United Kingdom

Gigi Storify for "Personal Cost of Revolution"

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

Days like these last yr we were protesting fraud elections & #omranyia church police clashes which murdered at least 2,no one prosecuted yet

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

Not knowing we were on the eve of witnessing a revolution of our own,I was wishing for a full Tunisian rev & thankful enough to witness it

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

The year is ending and my hopes for this year are almost all accomplished, but to find myself with a whole new list of hopes for 2012

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We used to be kettled and cordoned by CSF in st. for 7-9 hrs at a time, now we get tear gassed, and shot at #preandpostrev

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We used to protest & sit-in in front of general prosecutor, now we sit-in in Tahrir and protest in front of C28 #preandpostrev

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We used to walk in 5s to meet at the protest spot which was cordoned b4 we get thr, now we march from all cities to Tahrir in 1000s

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We used to have to beg press to come cover our protests (not after we r arrested), now we can't find enough time to meet w/ journalists

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We used to sound crazy to people around us chanting بكرة الثورة تقوم متخلي now we sound less crazy chanting هانشيله هانحله هانفك المجلس كله

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We were beaten, kettled & arrested in an anti-torture protest for #khaledSaid June13,10, we graffitied khaled's face on lazoghli June6,11

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

It makes me so grateful to have been part (even if small) of the days before the rev, but nothing is more grateful than a year of revolution

 

RamyYaacoub Ramy Yaacoub

@Gsquare86 you/we still sound crazy to many ya gigi

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

@RamyYaacoub I like to believe less crazy than last year, with the progression of the rev, I will sound like the most sane person u ever no

 

RamyYaacoub Ramy Yaacoub

@Gsquare86 Mesh 3aref I am kind of depressed, I feel that I fight with every person I meet now adays defending #Jan25

 

 Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

@RamyYaacoub well that is a given, and it is only by fighting that we will win :)

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

If u r depressed now cuz u keep defending Jan25 rev, compare that with trying to convince ppl a year ago that a rev was even possible!?

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

If you think you sound crazy now to people who oppose the rev, how do u think activists in the 90s like @3arabawy sounded?

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We make the impossible possible, it is all about choices

 

3arabawy Hossam عمو حسام

@Gsquare86 Yes, our tiny Marxist group was regarded as aliens from another galaxy then :)) #90s

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We may lose people, we can disagree with one another, we may even pick up new bad habits on the way, but we can't give up hope

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

With all the blood & tears and real ugly things we have been through this year, in perspective, we r in a much better place

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

We have a duty to continue the battle for freedom, at least for those who we lost along the way, but also cuz it is our golden opportunity

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

This is not to put the amens pressure that we have an opportunity to reshape the global system, but to remind us that we r that much

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

Always see things in a historical perspective and you will know where u r exactly and I think Egypt is on a brink of greatness

 

 Sandmonkey Mahmoud Salem

@Gsquare86 No point in losing anyone. None whatsoever.

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

@Sandmonkey not u :p , martyrs

 

Sandmonkey Mahmoud Salem

@Gsquare86 I am starting to hate that word ya G. It sugarcoats what happened to them. They were murdered. The Murdered.

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

@Sandmonkey of course they were murdered and we all know who the murderers r, but they r martyrs too

 

 Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

All we need in this phase is real organizational and coordinating work to make our hits at SCAF more impacting, this is possible

 

 RamyYaacoub Ramy Yaacoub

@Gsquare86 this requires less focus on the differences between each other and more focus on the common goals

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

@RamyYaacoub absolutely at least in common areas especially

 

Psypherize Ahmad H. Aggour

@Gsquare86 #Maspero is a higher priority target than #Tahrir Square itself.

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

@Psypherize yes Maspero is crucial but is also part of the package not an end goal

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

The revolution teaches us the biggest lessons we may learn in most of our lives, these come at great cost, so let's make the most of them

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

Whatever mistakes I make, I try at least to not make the same ones again, this is called growing, we need more growing, I need more growing

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

The war is long,but the battles r short, many little things create victoryordefeat,we alrdy did many great little things,we need to continue

 

Gsquare86 Gigi Ibrahim جييييج

I have no doubt that wave 3 will make all these uncertainties clearer and a stronger fight to be the end of SCAF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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