successful or not?

On April 6, the April 6 Youth Movement called the Egyptians for a “day of anger”. Despite the massive call, not many Egyptians showed up to express their anger. Cairo’s streets has been as chaotic and polluted as usual, shops and universities normally opened, and not many black clothes appeared in the streets, how the  strike organizers were advising people the days previous the demonstrations.

Downtown Cairo and universities were massively presided by State security forces. Around hundred activists gathered on the stairs of the Journalist Syndicate in Cairo. Few students showed up at Cairo University and Ain el Sham University. Definitely a low turnout in comparison to the wide support achieved on the web by the movement, and in comparison to the international echo the strike received last year.

Organizers, Egyptian youth and ordinary citizens wonder now if the call for strike has been successful or not. Maybe just another little step on what seems to be a long path.

Listen to a brief comment on the strike from the Informativo Más Voces (in Spanish):
April 6 Strike