http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/3345/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/600-support-egyptian-and-tunisian-people-fill-dundas-square-toronto/5943 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Freedom! Democracy, always Democracy!” Says Organizer Ahmed Khalif </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/egypt_tunisia_paul_kellog.jpg" alt="" title="Demonstraters held homemade signs in many languages. (photo credit: Paul Kellogg)" width="450" height="177" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/scott_tunisia.jpg" alt="" title="Around 600 braved the cold weather in Dundas square, at the heart of downtown Toronto (photo credit: Minus Smile)" width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/homade_signs.jpg" alt="" title="Many demonstrators made thier own signs. (photo credit: Banafsheh Beizaei)" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/mubarak_would_have_shot_me.jpg" alt="" title="This sign compares the relative freedom to demonstrate in Canada to the severe repression in Egypt. One woman told me &quot;I am here to express myself , secondly to support my family, my friends and my people.” (photo credit: Taylor Flook)" width="450" height="336" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/let_the_tree_of_freedom_grow.jpg" alt="" title="People chanted &quot;let the tree of freedom grow&quot; and other slogans, alternating between Arabic and English. (photo credit: Banafsheh Beizaei)" width="450" height="675" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>On Saturday, Dundas Square in the centre of Toronto filled with 600 people demonstrating in solidarity with ongoing revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/600-support-egyptian-and-tunisian-people-fill-dundas-square-toronto/5943" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/600-support-egyptian-and-tunisian-people-fill-dundas-square-toronto/5943#comments Megan Kinch Solidarity #Toronto Egypt tunisia Dominion Stories Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:13:48 +0000 Megan Kinch 5943 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca