February 4, 2011

On the Media

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🗓️ 5 May 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:03.6	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:04.8	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:06.5	During the chaos in Tahrir Square in Cairo, we managed to get in touch with one of the protesters who was tweeting vigorously from the ground.
0:15.9	Mona Seif is an activist and postgraduate student in cancer research at Cairo University.
0:21.6	She joined us Thursday night from the square.
0:24.6	Today they were trying different ways of weakening us and undermining us.
0:29.6	They harass any protesters trying to join us or to bring us food or medical supplies.
0:35.6	They also crack down on most of our legal support.
0:40.5	They have arrested them.
0:41.4	One of them is my dad.
0:43.1	We do not know where they are right now.
0:45.4	Despite all of this, the spirit is still good.
0:47.5	The numbers are still great.
0:49.0	I'm interested in your journey to get to where you are now and to hear square.
0:54.1	And I'm particularly interested to where you are now and to Here's Square.
1:00.8	And I'm particularly interested to know how much Twitter and Facebook, SMS, played a part.
1:05.2	All the social networks played an extremely important role.
1:11.7	The choice of the day was because the 20th of January, the state decided two years ago to name it Police Day,
1:15.0	where we celebrate all the great things the police do to us,
1:17.0	and of course our police are completely corrupted.
1:24.3	So the call was to take that date and really show our rage at the corruption of the state.
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