Artifacts from a Little Revolt in “Little Egypt” – Oh, Carbondale
The faculty strike is over at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Here’s a look back at the outburst of pro-strike propaganda and other (visual) creativity that swirled around the strike and its interplay with the Occupy Carbondale movement. For those who don’t know, southern Illinois has been dubbed “Little Egypt” for more than a century. (For […]
Jefferson City teenager arrested for hurling firebomb at Egyptian police in Tahrir Square
In the region that arguably started these worldwide waves of occupations, the street fighting continues in Cairo and throughout the cities of Egypt… a revolution unfinished. Three Americans, one from Jefferson City, Missouri, were arrested by Egyptian police today and paraded on state-controlled Egyptian television. They were students at American University in Cairo which sits […]