Al midan

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What happened?

The lights went out.

- Why?

This is normal.

The lights are

out all over the world.

The lights are

out all over Egypt.

Everything is like this,

it's not just the electricity.

Electricity is the least

of our problems.

And all the little kids

in the streets say,

"Turn the lights back on, man."

Who is the "man"?

The man who's responsible

for switching the electricity

back on.

The regime.

Are you recording?

- Yes.

Really recording?

Yes.

OK. Do as you like.

- - Let me

tell you how this whole story began.

Egypt was living

without dignity.

Injustice existed

everywhere.

Before the revolution,

I lived from one job

to the next.

I started working

when I was eight years old.

In fifth grade, I used

to pay my school tuition

by selling lemons

in the street.

There was no hope for a

better future in this country.

We were tied down by

an unjust regime and

its dictator.

Mubarak was the head

of the regime

that forced us to live for

30 years under emergency law.

I lived my entire life

under Mubarak's injustice.

The regime always

worked against the people.

They would torture,

electrocute, beat the

sh*t out of people.

No one dared to speak

about politics.

Politics was for

the regime only.

Oh, my God, people.

We want to go

to Tahrir Square.

If we have any dignity and

want to live as humans

in this country,

then we have to

go to the streets.

We will go down and demand

our fundamental human rights.

I am going down and I will say

"no" to corruption, "no" to

this regime.

I went to the

streets.

I found everyone around me

felt just as I did.

The people

want to end corruption!

Peaceful!

The police tried to

divide us with all they had.

People got angry...

We were all present.

We were one hand.

One hand!

One hand!

One hand!

We will fill the world

with our poetry.

Our words will

stand in the Square.

And they will be

like bullets in this war.

Revolution until victory!

Revolution on

every street in Egypt!

Leave, Mubarak!

This is when we

realised that people are

the true power.

Every five seconds,

thousands join the sit-in.

We won't leave the Square

until our demands are met.

We've never

had our rights.

Finally, we have this piece

of land to call our own

and to claim

our rights on.

And now, it's ours.

It's not too much

to ask for.

Tahrir Square is nothing

compared to the thousands

of acres they stole.

Tea, anyone?

Tea, anyone?

Magdy.

I told you we'd have

some tea together.

You, too, have some tea.

If I were to talk on behalf

of some of the Islamists...

Who's to say who's

an example of Islam?

The ideas we've

adopted since the start

of the revolution

are beautiful.

The idea that

we're one society.

To imagine that one day I would

be standing in Tahrir Square

in solidarity with all these

- people, I could never have imagined it.

At first, we were just

sleeping on newspapers.

And we didn't have any

blankets, only a few.

And only a few

people slept in.

Now, it's turning into some

community. It's more tents.

Relationships are

becoming very strong.

We're waiting for him

to resign tonight.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

I don't know,

we're all very nervous.

I don't have any

cigarettes left.

Take this one.

I'm just waiting for the speech.

You don't normally

get so much time

to try and work out where

you're going to be standing

when something

historic happens,

and the bastard

is making us wait.

The protestors I talked to before I left

were very concerned

literally for their lives

if they left that Square.

The Secret Police, - the intelligence

apparatus is still in place,

still taking people and could

pick them off one by one

when they return

to their homes.

Khalid, you're

a famous actor.

Do you worry about talking

like you have been?

About being in

with the protestors?

Do you worry that

you could be targeted?

Well, I...

I don't care.

I mean, I know

why I'm here

and I know why

I want to be here.

I mean, I come from...

I come from three generations

- who've been fighting

for social reform and political

freedoms in this country.

And here we have

the discourse of democracy,

of freedom, of social justice,

of political reform

being changed in the

Middle East for all of us.

And I'm extremely proud

to be here for those reasons.

God be with you.

I am telling you,

good things are coming.

Good things.

- - Usually, the

Muslim Brotherhood is our biggest fear.

But everyone inside

the Square now is different.

After the government turned

it into a life or death

situation,

enough, it didn't matter

- who you are and what you are doing.

And everyone knows that you're

here, and if you're here,

you're willing to die.

We are

doing this for our children.

Even if I die,

it's for the future.

So now that Mubarak is gone,

we have to take control.

The main thing is taking the regime down.

Whoever is negotiating

with them...

The regime is already down.

If you take out people

and put people just like them

from the same circle,

from the same regime,

then you didn't take down the

regime, you took down people.

You're absolutely right.

No one is going to kill you.

I told you before.

The Army will sacrifice

their last drop of blood

before they fire a single

bullet on the people.

Never.

Now, please pack

your things and go home.

When Mubarak

stepped down...

...the Armed Forces took

over the country's affairs.

They swore to God to meet

the people's demands.

So people went home.

And nothing happened.

We didn't put the killers on

trial or change the government.

There is no new constitution,

and the Secret Police are still

in power.

The regime is

not just Mubarak.

The regime is all

the country's institutions,

and they all have to change.

So we went back

to the Square.

We're entering Tahrir Square,

the place of pride and dignity,

where a tent and a blanket

can solve all your problems.

? We'll keep protesting!?

? We'll keep protesting!?

? We're staying here,

we're not going anywhere!?

? We're staying here,

we're not going anywhere!?

? We'll continue

our revolution!?

? We'll continue

our revolution!?

- - The main way

of communicating is through slogans.

- -? Our

revolution is a people's revolution!?

? Our revolution

is a people's revolution!?

? Not a coalition's

- revolution nor a party's revolution!?

The expectation at first was

that he would go and then we'd - all

move on or find a way of doing things.

Now, if he just goes and someone

comes in his place and we have

the whole same regime underneath

him, then we have a major

problem.

It just becomes, we did all of

this in order to just to remove

him

and put someone exactly

like him in his place.

If we still have a police state,

if we still have emergency law,

if we still have

the constitution

pretty much the

same as it is,

then if we had an election

in six months' time,

the situation would

pretty much be the same

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