Egyptian Activist Ahmed Salah speaks at RCNV

From RCNV.org:

“The Egyptian Revolt and the Power of Nonviolence”
Sunday August 21 7:00 p.m.
a presentation by
Ahmed Salah
at the Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway near Ocean, Santa Cruz
$5-$20 suggested donation

Egyptian activist Ahmed Salah will speak on Sunday August 21 at 7:00 p.m. at the Resource Center about the movement that led to the ouster of Egypt’s former President, Hosni Mubarak. Salah has been actively working since 2004 to change the Mubarak regime using active nonviolence. He is a co-founder and key organizer of the 6th of April Youth Movement in Egypt that helped bring about Mubarak’s fall from power.

Salah will describe various strategies that were learned, developed, and implemented by activists and civil society groups in the years leading up to the January 25 protests. The movement that was called the “Egyptian Movement for Change” or “Kifaya,” (enough). succeeded in forcing Mubarak out of power after 18 days of nonviolent mass action. Salah was a key strategist to the movement until a few months ago.

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More about Ahmed Salah:

Ahmed Salah is the executive director of The House of New Future Center for Legal and Human Rights Studies in Egypt and works as a freelance reporter on the side. Born into a politically active family, Salah continued in the family tradition by becoming an independent political activist in 2001. Most notably, Salah was one of the co-founders of the Kifaya Movement (the Egyptian Movement for Change) in 2004 and remains a member of the Coordinators Council of Kifaya to oversee the strategic direction of the initiative.

In addition, he is also the co-founder, strategist, ideologist, and foreign affairs representative of the April 6 Youth Movement, which launched in March 2008 until November 2010. In these capacities, Salah was able to coordinate political parties to stand in opposition to the Mubarak regime and served as a principle organizer for the January 25th revolution. At present, he is working hard to create democratic representation from across Egypt.