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Revolution is being televised and twittered and Facebooked

D..On Monday, friends of Wael Ghonim started asking on Twitter for any information relating to the whereabouts of Ghonim, Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa. The Egypt...ian Google executive has been missing since last week, and Al Jazeera said his wife has been appealing for any information on his whereabouts.

Ghonim was participating in the protests. One of his last tweets read:
Pray for #Egypt. Very worried as it seems that government is planning a war crime tomorrow against people. We are all ready to die #Jan25less than a minute ago via Twitter D
emocracy Now is doing a great job covering the Revolution in Egypt go there and connect..recent Facebook entry above

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From Twitter,Democracy Now's producer Sharif Kaouddous has an Unle who has been a leading activist.The Uncle stood on corners w megaphone as a one person demonstrator against the Egyptian dictator and look what has happened: sharifkouddous Sharif Kouddous
plan is meet tomorrow at Tahrir at 9, circle once then go to TV center to protest minister of info. Then march to Mubarak's residence #Egypt
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With news from Egypt showing escalating violence, many watching in the United States could be misled into focusing on "chaos and violence" instead of the key fact: Peaceful activists of all backgrounds are joining in nonviolent action demanding their basic right to participatory democracy. 

We need your voice to support those waging peace in Egypt. Write a letter now.

Tuesday's gathering of more than 1 million in Cairo capped a decades-old movement to end the 31-year rule of Hosni Mubarak. For eight days people all over the country have gathered in an active nonviolent call for change. They have succeeded in bringing hope for democracy to a region where war and occupation have failed. Help us lift up nonviolent struggle as a way of creating democratic change. Start with an urgent letter to the editor of your local newspaper.

Recently you and your fellow Wage Peace activists have placed hundreds of letters across the US, making a difference in shaping public opinion and breaking through misinformation. 

Now is the time for Americans' understanding of, and role in, the Middle East to be shaped by hope, not fear. Please write today.

Wage Peace,
Peter Lems and Mary Zerkel
American Friends Service Committee 

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Any updates on what happened to him?

Related development:

 

Julian Assange awarded Sydney peace medal
February 2, 2011

 

In the estimation of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands alongside the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.

As he outrages and embarrasses world leaders by leaking secret US diplomatic cables - and continues to face down allegations of sex offences - Mr Assange has been chosen by the foundation to receive a rare gold medal for peace with justice.

The honour, previously given only to the Dalai Lama, Mr Mandela and Japanese lay Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda in the foundation's 14-year history, has been bestowed for Mr Assange's "exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights".

Foundation director Stuart Rees said today the Australian's work had challenged the old order of power in politics and journalism.

"Peace from our point of view is really about justice, fairness and the attainment of human rights," Professor Rees said.

"Assange has championed people's right to know and has challenged the centuries-old tradition that governments are entitled to keep the public in a state of ignorance."

Mr Assange was informed of the award last month and said it would be an "enormous pleasure and honour" to receive it, Professor Rees said.

The gold medal is distinct from the annual Sydney Peace Prize awarded by the foundation.

By leaking thousands of US diplomatic cables, Mr Assange had made a historically significant contribution to the operation of democracy, the Sydney Peace Foundation's executive decided.

"WikiLeaks has exposed the extent to which governments, the military and business all over the world have used secrecy to cloak their real intentions and activities," it said.

Professor Rees said Mr Assange's work was in the tradition of Tom Paine's Rights of Man and Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers - "challenging the old order of power in politics and in journalism".

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/julian-a...

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