This video is called Egypt: Graffiti as a Revolutionary Art Tool.
There is whitewashing (like of al-Qaeda money and drug money by HSBC bank).
There is greenwashing (like in the green logo and arts sponsorships of polluting oil firm BP).
Now, in Egypt, there is yellow-washing.
From Aswat Masriya (Cairo, Egypt):
Egypt: Graffiti Removed, Another Appears By Morning
19 September 2012
Graffiti in Mohamed Mahmoud Street were removed at a late hour on Tuesday where walls were painted yellow, sparking fury on social media.
It is still unclear who removed the graffiti.
Last November, Mohamed Mahmoud Street, branched from Tahrir Square, witnessed violent confrontations between security forces and protesters resulting in deaths and injuries.
The walls of Mohamed Mahmoud Street were covered with graffiti by activists, following the battle named after the street.
Graffiti included symbols of the January 25 revolution, the ousted regime and murals inspired by Egypt’s pharaonic heritage; they were images that animated post-revolution Egypt.
An eyewitness told Aswat Masriya that a few hours after the graffiti was removed, pedestrians were shocked to see new graffiti that translates to “wipe some more, cowardly regime” appear on the wall.
Activists on social media complained that graffiti on Germany’s Berlin Wall remains to this day as it expresses the people’s struggle against the tyranny and injustice of a corrupt regime.
In a similar attempt, state workers cleaned the walls in May, only to have new ones emerge hours later.
Egypt: Police Says Not Responsible for Removal of Mohamed Mahmoud Graffiti: here.
Egypt: ANHRI Condemns the Disperse of the Nile University Students Sit-in Using Force: here.
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE ARAB SPRING, THE EGYPTIAN ARTIST TRAINING HIS EYE ON THE U.S. “But I think art in Egypt is far more developed than what you see in the U.S., for example. A lot of new artists emerged during the revolution. New artists made powerful art in different contexts, whether it was street art, visual art, or performative art in the street or showed art in independent galleries and spaces.” [HuffPost]
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Cairo transport workers continue strike
Transport workers in Cairo, Egypt entered the third day of a strike throughout the Cairo metropolitan area Monday, in pursuit of higher salaries and to demand the board of directors be removed. Workers are also seeking to attach the Cairo Transportation Authority (CTA) to the Ministry of Transport, in order to achieve parity of pay and conditions with other state employees.
The strike led to the closure of five bus garages in the capital while 22 others began partial strikes.
Following a dispute last year over the same issues, an initial agreement was reached with CTA management. A union representative of the workers told Ahram Online, “It is still the same. We want to be attached to the ministry of transportation to enjoy the public sector’s pay raises.”
In an attempt to criminalise the strike, a top ranking official from the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said Monday the workers were committing “treason”, describing the strike as “criminal.”
On Monday the government stepped up its repression of the strike by arresting Tarek El-Behairy, head of CTA’s independent worker’s syndicate.
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Egyptian university staff strike over legal protections and pay
Staff at Cairo, Beni Soueif, Fayoum, Banha and Damanhour universities started an open-ended strike Saturday, over demands which include the legal protection by incorporation under the University Organisation Law No 49 of 1972, according to Ahram Online.
The law legally provides “university workers with the right to elect heads of universities and giving workers the right to attend the meetings of the Supreme Council of Universities.”
Other demands by university employees include that all university deputies are chosen by elections and not appointment, for all temporary workers to be given permanent contracts, for increasing overtime pay by 50 percent, increasing incentive rewards by 400 percent, and increasing exam bonuses to 600 working days’ pay instead of 450.
Teachers and administrative staff of Cairo University have been on strike since last week demanding an increase in the minimum wage.
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Egyptian doctor continues sit-in and hunger strike over salaries
Doctor Mostafa Al-Behairy has resumed the sit-in and hunger strike he started Saturday at the doctors’ syndicate in Cairo, demanding better working conditions for medical staff. Doctors in Alexandria, Daqahliya, where Al-Behairy is from, and South Sinai have held protests in solidarity.
A member of the board of the Doctor’s Syndicate, Ahmed Hussein has also started a hunger strike. He told the Daily News Egypt that his first demand is “that the country drops proposals to raise the salaries of doctors by raising the prices that patients have to pay for services. … We doctors will not accept to have our salaries raised at the expense of the poor patients.”
Al-Behairy said doctors want a salary that allows them a dignified life, without having to take a second job in a private clinic.
Another demand by doctors is the raising of the government’s share of the budget allocated to medical care to 15 percent from the current figure of four percent.
Mohamed Rakha, from advocacy group Doctors Without Rights (DWR), said during the emergency general assembly on Friday, it will be decided if the doctors will strike in October.
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