2/09/2011

Youth Coalition Comittee Formed

This useful article names the participants in the coalition and the representatives of each movement.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/5257/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-revolution-youth-form-national-coalition.aspx



A different view of what things look like by Blake Hounshell on the ground here:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/07/a_new_leader_for_egypt_s_protesters?hpid=topnews

"The organization that administers the square itself, it's important to understand, is a completely separate entity from the various other Facebook groups, political parties, and other movements that often get (or take) credit for the uprising. Ahmed Naguib, 33, a member of the 1,000-plus strong Tahrir organizing committee, told me that few of the volunteers who man the barricades, seek to root out regime infiltrators, staff the increasingly well-stocked field hospitals and pharmacies, and bring in supplies are "political" types -- as is the case with the roughly 100-member steering committee that more or less makes key logistical decisions. Many if not most of these people didn't even know each other before last week -- and they aren't necessarily activists. The ad hoc organizers have resisted efforts by some groups to secure representational seating in the inner circle of the steering committee, Naguib told me."

This article also points out what I have heard from multiple sources that the "representatives" of the youth movement at the meeting with Suleiman on Sunday did not represent anyone.

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