[governance] FW: Egypt, let your people go online!

[Michael Gurstein]

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Subject: Egypt, let your people go online!
From:    "Brett Solomon" <brett at accessnow.org>
Date:    Sat, January 29, 2011 6:53 pm
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Dear friends and colleagues,

Please find the link to the updated campaign we sent out last night calling
on *Mr Mubarak to tear down the firewall* - It would be great if you could
tweet this and sign the link below:

*Egypt, let your people go online! Sign new
@accessnow<http://twitter.com/accessnow>petition calling on ISPs and telecos
to reconnect #Egypt <http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Egypt>
#Jan25<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Jan25>:
http://bit.ly/fqDmCZ*

Full text of the campaign below.

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With the help of European companies like Vodafone and Orange/France Telecom
the Egyptian government shut down the internet and cut the phone lines.
Despite news that the mobile phones are back up in some places, Egyptians
demonstrating in the streets for a peaceful end to decades of tyranny are
facing an attempted blackout.

By succumbing to the regime's pressure, Vodafone and Orange/France Telecom
betrayed their own operating principles and taken away one of the most
important tools the people can use to challenge the iron fist of the
Egyptian regime.  Egyptian and internationally funded ISPs bear the same
responsibility. Join us in calling them out on their complicity in human
rights abuse and demanding that they immediately restore service to Egypt.

 <https://www.accessnow.org/breaktheblackout>
https://www.accessnow.org/GetEgyptBackOnline

With most of the country without any access to the internet, mobile phones,
or SMS, it's very difficult to know what kind of human rights abuses the
Egyptian government may be committing.  The Egyptian police are shooting at
unarmed protestors and journalists, setting cars on fire, and spraying
protestors with water cannons and tear gas. We really won't know the full
extent of the violence until the internet and mobile networks are restored.
Please sign this petition, which we will deliver to Vodafone, Orange/France
Telecom and the ISPs, urging them to reopen or maintain the channels of
communication:

 <https://www.accessnow.org/breaktheblackout>
https://www.accessnow.org/GetEgyptBackOnline

-- 
Brett Solomon
Executive Director
Access
www.accessnow.org

<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/parliament/public/staticDisplay.do?language=e
n&id=42>

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