mental health, clothing, food. I find it hypocritical to be so politically unaware of the needs right here at home. You can make a difference too. It's not unlike how I felt at Christmas when all the platitudes about goodwill towards all people were meaningless. Please, American Left, step up to the plate instead of screaming on another street corner. I'm really sick of the left. We need other alternatives - and anarchy doesn't seem to help either. Oops.

mental health, clothing and food is what the Egyptian people are calling for

IF the American PUBLIC would come out in mass numbers

IF THEY had the courage or wherewithal to STAND UP

FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE

THAT ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ANYONE

THEN WE WOULD HAVE MILLIONS ON THE STREETS HERE

I love how there's always a conservative troll on this site who tries to say something clever.....

nice try.....Think Harder.........and COME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's get serious and face a few facts. Mass demonstrations (especially if there's some head-busting and tear-gassing) are a lot more sexy than dual diagnosis derelicts on our city streets. It's much more amusing and exciting to get our knickers in a twist about people who rise up against their obvious (and long-term) oppressors than it is to try to work up some piss and vinegar about the apathy and torpor of the American poor. I'm really sick of pontificating christian moralists telling me and my friends what we should be doing instead of what we're already doing. You run your mouth, I'll run my business brother.

Whatever they (or are they the same person?) are trying to say, it seems to be a put-down of people who organize solidarity demonstrations instead of -- WHAT?

If you are already doing the kind of organizing that you think we all should be doing, please describe it and tell people here how to get involved. If you're NOT doing it, STOP COMPLAINING!

As the information above states, "$1.3 billion per year in aid" goes to Egypt, a figure that is similar with countless others (Israel, Colombia, etc.). This is our own government devoting attention (mostly in tanks, guns, planes) to other countries. Apart from this, our military budget is about the same as the rest of the world COMBINED. Our imperial foreign policy strangles our own economy, and the military budget makes up around half the deficit. The last budget called for a total of $741 BILLION for defense and fund the war(s). Even radicals like Colin Powell are calling for reductions in defense spending.

Of course helping out people here is important. One can do both; you don't necessarily have to choose either/or. After this demonstration, many of the same people will possibly be going about their lives as citizens doing what they usually do, possibly in work that DOES address domestic issues or in helping out oppressed people here. This day is simply, and crucially, to show support, and to illustrate (unlike other solidarity protests dealing with other countries' affairs) that a lot of the issues around the world can be tied the decisions our own government makes.

hey aaron, did you do too much acid back in the hippy days? i'll be at the demo today, but i won't be standing next to you. i go to demos all the time, but i go because it amuses me not because i subscribe to some bizarre notion of humanism or nebulous calls for 'solidarity' that translate into a bunch of leftists walking in circles holding signs with ridiculous slogans on them.