tonight and tomorrow in Cairo

You can read HERE about marchers converging on the Defense Ministry tonight. The Ministry is located in Abbasiya, a bit of a walk from Tahrir, but certainly walkable. The protestors are calling for the immediate departure of SCAF (the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) from power.

So too are tomorrow’s protests, largely student-driven, though there are calls for workers to join in.

I just read my bank’s quietly circulated email about which ATM’s will have reduced supplies of cash, and it was interesting to read that they will not put any cash at all in their machines in Suez. That’s a tough port town, located on the canal of the same name, obviously. Suez protestors have been arguably the toughest in Egypt since last year, and have almost surely had the most per capita protestor deaths of any city in Egypt.

What’s the big worry for tomorrow? Student marches being attacked by “outraged citizens,” if you know what I mean.

I’m proud of AUC’s students for taking the lead in organizing students nationwide. It seems to me like the only proper response to having lost one of their classmates in the evidently organized violence of Port Said. As far as I’m aware, this was purely an initiative of the AUC Student Union, led entirely by Egyptians.