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Wednesday, March 9. Marshall Goldman presents readings from The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry. 7:30 p.m., First Parish Church. Admission free...
...worse, and citizens, confronted with this complicated process, have generally responded with confusion and indifference. However, as the situation degenerates into political chaos, and blatant inequities with the status quo become evident to all, we are confident that more and more Americans will join us in pressing for meaningful reform...
...Over the past few months, at Mubarak's recommendation, his ruling National Democratic Party has engaged in a public dialogue with leaders of the country's major political parties to discuss reform and democracy. The outcome lead to an acknowledgement by the NDP that while constitutional and democratic reform were urgent, the process needed more time. Party leaders argued that it was too late to change the constitution before September to allow for candidates to run against Mubarak, who has been in power since the assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, in October 1981. Even members of opposition groups...
...announcement, say Egyptian political analysts, follows months of growing outspokenness from Egypt's political opposition and within civil society to allow others to run against Mubarak. It also comes against a backdrop of growing pressure from the U.S. for political reform and democratization in Egypt. Indeed, the announcement followed hard on the heels of a decision by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel a trip to Egypt, reportedly in response to the arrest last month of parliamentary opposition leader Ayman Nour - who had been pressing for the right of Egyptians to run for president when Mubarak seeks a fifth...
...increasingly assertive Egyptian movement for change and reform has since last December taken the word kefaya (meaning "enough") as its slogan, and organized sit-ins and demonstrations against a fifth term for Mubarak, and to denounce the principle of presidential inheritance, marking their opposition to the possibility that Mubarak be replaced by his younger son, Gamal. Just last week, some demonstrators even took the risk of shouting "down with Mubarak" in a heavily policed demonstration outside Cairo University...