Until Egypt is Free: Talking points

KEY TALKING POINTS FOR EDUCATING MEDIA NEIGHBORS & FRIENDS
When speaking with the media, it may be wise to also add some of the “requests to Congress and the White House” listed in the next list
1- The same motives that led to our founding fathers’ declaration of independence – the British Kings’ abusing the rights of the colonists for his own gain – are the same motives that led the Egyptian people to the peaceful protest of Mubarak’s regime. And just like our American nation came out a model of democracy and pluralism for the west upon independence, the civilized and intelligent Egyptians at the heart of this uprising will come out with an Egypt that will be a desperately needed model of democracy and pluralism for the Arab world. Now is the time when we can support a nation’s birth like those who supported our nation’s birth two hundred and thirty four years ago
2- Nothing could be more secure for us as Americans in the Middle East than people that are happy with their governments. Once the governments are legitimately the choice of the people, radicalization will become irrelevant
3- The activists who initiated the uprising and are still leading the protests represent a well educated, diverse, non-ideological and pragmatic diversity of young Egyptians. Their success will never lead to a theocratic system as they would never allow it. Their ultimate aim is a pluralistic, democratic Egypt.
4- The Egyptian people's will is to have genuine freedom and true social justice. The Egyptian people are confident in their ability to self-govern, to have a government of the people, by the people, for the people
5- We ask our American peers to join us in demanding of the White House, the Secretary of State and Congress to respect the will of the Egyptian people and stop supporting Mubarak and his regime.
6- We ask our American peers to be confident this process will yield an administration that will undoubtedly agree with our American values of life, liberty and justice – even if it may not agree with all US foreign policy decisions.
7- The current violence is resulting from police infractions by those who are acting as the apparatus of the Mubarak regime aiming to shift the discussion from the issue of freedom to the issue of safety

KEY TALKING POINTS TO REQUEST OF CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE
The following key requests may be shared with congress and the White House after leading with some of the above educational points
1- We ask the White House, the Secretary of State and Congress to respect the will of the Egyptian people and stop supporting Mubarak and his regime.
2- We ask President Obama to join the British, French and German leadership in demanding that Egypt carry out free and fair elections.
3- We ask our American government to reiterate the importance of a fully democratic Egypt and to be confident this process will yield an administration that will undoubtedly agree with our American values of life, liberty and justice – even if it may not agree with all US foreign policy decisions.
4- The current violence is resulting from police infractions who are acting as the apparatus of the Mubarak regime aiming to shift the discussion from the issue of freedom to the issue of safety. We ask our officials to demand the Mubarak regime to cease all violence immediately.
5- We want our officials to know nothing could be more secure for us as Americans in the Middle East than people that are happy with their governments. Once the governments are legitimately the choice of the people, radicalization will become marginalized

Egyptian Americans in action

The Egyptian people have chosen life, liberty and justice, destiny must obey, the night will retreat and the chain will break.

As Egyptian Americans our objective is to gain support for the revolution from our peers in the American public.

1- We will create a document with talking points that represent our consensus.
2- We will contact media outlets local and national. A database of contact information will be made available.
3- We will contact policy makers at all levels.
4- We will inform local media of our protests ahead of time and we will organize as many of them. We will be prepared with our talking points to address the media. When organizing protests we will coordinate with other local organizations.
5- We will use this facebook page to communicate and discuss our actions and events. This page doesn't represent an organization, it is the compilation of our local efforts.
6- We will meet periodically to discuss and network. Our next meeting is going to be on Friday February 6th at 10 pm EST. Information about the call will be shared soon.

Egyptian Americans in motion, meeting minutes

SUMMARY OF IDEAS & POTENTIAL NEXT ACTIONS
Rallies may be very effective IF LOCAL MEDIA IS NOTIFIED
We need a concise and consistent message that we can all converge on to be giving out to our peers as well as be able to rearticulate in an interview or in social networking conversations
We need to have a solid presence with media outlets
We need to reach out to government officials
Demonstrations in the next couple of days will be very important
If we can focus on the media outlets over the next couple of days will be key
SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS
From Hossam via chat “Omar, can you please prepare the list of talking points in "sound-byte" format, and please post it to the facebook groups so we can speak with a unified message” (Omar Atia & Ayman)
Transition “Egyptian diaspora supporting the January 25 2011” to start new facebook page actions to be taken by this group (Ayman Khafagi)
American-Egyptian Alliance sent a letter to Mrs. Clinton – perhaps we can work along with them since they are already organized (Sameh)
Each person will reach out to local congress people with the only request to stop supporting Mubarak – all we want is that they stop supporting Mubarak – as soon as possible (note on facebook page with links for local congress people – call not email)
On the facebook page exists a list of contacts for many media outlets around the country – reach out to local media suggest they interview you (All)
Any additional media contacts add to the facebook page media list
Rally in front of Egyptian consulate for midwesterners on Saturday January 29
Next meeting will be Friday 2/4 10pm EST for this group and we will provide information
via facebook page that will be formed new – if new meeting time is needed, we will call for it sooner

A suggested Egyptian American support strategy for the revolution

The Egyptian people's will is to have absolute freedom and absolute social justice. The Egyptian people are confident in their ability to self-govern, to have a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
On the other hand, the US wants freedom and social justice for Egypt as well but without taking any risks on it's own interests.

We, Egyptian Americans, should do our best to realize our brethren's will. We should convey to the US, government and people, our will and our confidence that we can establish the first true democracy in the middle east.

Succeeding in isolating the current regime, Mubarak, from his strongest allies, the US, will get us one step closer to our goal. This is a major task but I'm sure we can do it.

If you want to work with us please join us tonight in our conference call at 10 pm EST, check the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129581897107397&index=1

Contact information for news outlets to contact about the imminent massacre in Egypt

nytnews@nytimes.com
executive-editor@nytimes.com
managing-editor@nytimes.com
news-tips@nytimes.com
thearts@nytimes.com
bizday@nytimes.com
foreign@nytimes.com
metro@nytimes.com
national@nytimes.com
sports@nytimes.com
washington@nytimes.com

جريدة لوسن انجلوس
readers.rep@latimes.com

جريدة U S Today
editor@usatoday.com

لندن اكسترا

loudounextra@wpni.com
amy.kovac@wpni.comm
eghan.louttit@wpni.com
bernsteinp@washpost.com

ذا ويك
kerin_o'connor@dennis.co.uk
simon_davies@dennis.co.uk

جريدة ميرور
rnews@mirror.co.uk
picturedesk@mirror.co.uk

جريدة ذا هيرالد
letters@theherald.co.uk

ذا اندبيندانت
newseditor@independent.co.uk
legal.department@independent.co.uk

صحف المانية

Die Zeit
zeitiminternet@zeit.de

تلغراف
redactie-i@telegraaf.nl

دي تاستونج
office1@gamla.org.il
leserbriefe@linkszeitung.de

استراليا
woche@tpg.com.au

كندا
dasecho@videotron.ca
redaktion@dasecho.com

رومانيا
journal@journal.lu
abonnement@journal.lu

الصحف الفرنسية

لاموند
masson@lemonde.fr

فرانش ماجازين
editorial@francemag.com
dimanche@ouest-fr
ance.frdirect@humanite.fr

لا اكسبرس
abonnements@lexpress.fr

ايطاليا
web@publikompass.it

اسبانيا
اية بي سي
publicidadinternet@abc.es
economia@abc.es
deportes@abc.es
cultura@abc.es
sociedad@abc.es
espectaculos@abc.es
fotografia.madrid@abc.es
tv@abc.escomunicacion@abc.es
gente@abc.es
ilustracion.madrid@abc.es
diseno@abc.es
internet@abc.es

إل بايس
atencionclientes@prisacom.com

صحف روسيا
sch@chuvashia.ru

القنوات التلفزيونية

الجزيرة
documentary@aljazeera.net
doc.participate@aljazeera.net
doc.production@aljazeera.net

الجزيرة الانجليزية
press.int@aljazeera.net

الحرة الامريكية
media@alhurra.com
comments@alhurra.com
comments@alhurra.com

قناة الفرنسية
webdesk@france24.com

Human Rights Watch
Washington, DC : hrwdc@hrw.org
New York : hrwnyc@hrw.org
Berlin : berlin@hrw.org
Brussels : hrwbe@hrw.org
Chicago : chicago@hrw.org
Geneva :hrwgva@hrw.org
London : hrwuk@hrw.org
Paris : paris@hrw.org
San Francisco : hrwsf@hrw.org
Toronto : toronto@hrw.org

Human Rights First
New York Headquarters : feedback@humanrightsfirst.org

هيومان رايتس واتش
mena@hrw.org

شبكة الناجين من الألغام
Marwa@LSNmena.org

المركز الدولي للعدالة الانتقالية
info@ictj.org

مراسلون بلا حدود
rsf@rsf.org

الخط الأمامي، المؤسسة العالمية للدفاع عن مدافعي حقوق الإنسان
info@frontlinedefenders.org

منظمة كُتّاب بلا حدود :
malaf@kuttab.org

اللجنة الدولية للدفاع عن تيسير علوني
alonysolidarity@wanadoo.fr

المكتب الدولي للجمعيات الإنسانية و الخيرية :
ibh@noos.fr

رئيس لجنة حقوق الانسان بالبرلمان الاوروبى
richard.howitt@geo2.poptel.org.uk
richard.howitt@europarl.europa.eu

الامم المتحدة
iseek@un.org

American Immigration Lawyers Association
newsroom@aila.org
membership@aila.org

اوبرا وينفري
privacy@oprah.com

جامعات ومنظمات حقوق الانسان ومنظمات انسانية
info@ap.org
humanorg@mail.ecu.edu
m_pizzini@hotmail.com
neil@hann.org
uipress@uillinois.edu
info-en@wikimedia.org
redaktion@jungewelt.de
محامين فرنسيين contact@frenchattorney.com

جرائد و وكالات انباء اخرى

جريدة ماليالم نيوز
uae@arabnews.com

صحيفة العرب ـ لندن
arabuae52@hotmail.com

وكالة الأنباء الألمانية (DPA)
alexdistefano@hotmail.com

الوكالة الأوروبية المصورة
haider@epa.eu

جين انفورميشن جروب
mideast@janes.com

نشرة بلومبيرج
acritchlow1@bloomberg.net

وكالة رويترز- مدير إقليمي
andrew.marshall@reuters.com

وكالة سيبا برس
ferrari@epa-photos.com

إذاعة فرنسا الدولية
aureliencolly@hotmail.com

تلفزيون الأسوشييتدبرس
chloee@gmail.com

أرابيس ترنس ( الفرنسية)
davin@nomadslandfilms.com

وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية
christian.chaise@afp.com

وكالة الأنباء الإسبانية
fuad@efe.com

وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية
hassan.fakih@afp.com

دايالوج البولندية للنشر+ التلفزيون البولندي
jacek@eim.ae

هيئة الإذاعة البريطانية BBC ( قسم الإنجليزي)
jeremy.howell@bbc.co.uk

نشرة بلاتس
katedonovan@platts.com

صحيفة مادهيامم اليومية
abdusivapuram@hotmail.com

"إذاعة وراديو " مونت كارلو
djoudiae@yahoo.fr

شبكة الأنباء الدولية وانترنيوز
aslamcf@yahoo.com

صحيفة " العرب" الأمريكية
editor@nihalkamelnews.com

بلومبرغ
evers@bloombeg.net
evers@bloomberg.net

leserbriefe@bild.de

Egyptians, believe and knock off cynicism

Don't think that the chaos in Cairo is dangerous, remember that it was intended, we the people planned it. Remember that there were years of build up for it and remember that it was motivated by very legitimate causes. Let me remind you, we wanted national unity around basic rights, we reached that. We wanted to reach a critical mass of people, we have that. We were waiting for the tipping point and Tunisia gave it to us. This is a revolution, 20 plus years in the making, that is being realized. Don't be scared now, don't doubt and don't let emotions and shock paralyze you. This is the time to believe not to be cynical.


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