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Let him film these scenes, let him film.

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There is no god but God, and our oppressor is God's enemy!

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We're not afraid, we won't bow down, we won't be silenced anymore.

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We're not leaving, we're staying in the factory.

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We won't calm down, we won't go to sleep, we want to go back to the public sector.

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Between sale and rent, we're the victims of investment.

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This is not investment, it's colonialism.

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No one cares about us, not the minister of investment and not the minister of labor.

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We've been sitting in for 15 days.

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52 of us women were sent home. 

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They're paying our salaries until they put us on early retirement,

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 although not one of us asked for it.

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We refuse to retire early because we're used to working

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and we've been in this factory for 32 years.

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I work in the television factory. 
I've served the company for 27 years.

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The head of the company wants to kick us out.

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It would be impossible to humiliate us 
more than he's done.

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He stole all our rights -- we don't have transport,
 or healthcare, or pay raises.

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We only get our salary, 
and he wants to cut that too.

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He wants to kick us out permanently. 
Now I'm a man who has obligations.

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I leave home before dawn 
and come back home after dark.

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I take four buses to get to and from work. 
I pay eight pounds in transport

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And he does things -- as if we were prisoners,
 not company employees

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Our factories were all on this side.

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There were lots of factories, carpentry, 
a lot of workshops, TVs and washing machines.

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He tore down all those factories to make a mall. 
There's the mall, she's holding it.

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He sold everyone to build a mall 
that would only benefit him.

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Now we're all forbidden from entering the factory.

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Why? Because he tore it down and built a mall.
He's going to build a mall

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Have you ever seen an electronics factory, fifty years old, 
with a residential building inside it?

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When the residents go in, are they going 
to enter through the factory door?

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He helped the building owner tear the wall down.
 He came and tore it down at 2 a.m.

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We found out and came -- I stood in front of the trucks 
that were filling in the street.

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So that he could widen the street to ten meters

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and then force the authorities 
to give him a permit to build on his plot.

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Land here is worth 20 or 25,000 pounds a meter.

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He wants to sell it all to private owners 
as apartments and the like.

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And that's why he fired us.

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And fired the whole group of trade unionists,

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because we stood here and said 
that man has no right to build.

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The labor law has to change, 
because it was designed to benefit investors.

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Law 12 of 2003

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Because now, if an investor 
doesn't like the look of someone,

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he can kick him out and fire him.

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And the worker has to go to court to get his due.

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It's been almost a year 
and we still haven't got our due.

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Hani al-Ghazzawi is not the company owner, 

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he's an investor like the others, 
but he's the biggest investor.

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Dr. Mahmoud Mohamed Abdel-Nabi Salem,

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Atef Ebeid's executive secretary during privatization,

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plundered the companies.

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He came to close down Telemisr, which was 
the biggest electronics factory in the Middle East

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When they came to buy the factory

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Hani al-Ghazzawi took merchandise from al-Nasr company, 
the same products as Telemisr.

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For about 50 million pounds, but he didn't pay the money. 

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He burned the machines and took the money.

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Al-Nasr, with Ashraf Hamdi as head of the board, sued him.

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He couldn't pay. God knows if he put the money 
in his pocket or what happened.

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And they agreed to take machines from here

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and send them there so the case would get thrown out

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They sent the machinery to pay off Telemisr's debts 
and the case was thrown out

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With the money from the machines, they bought shares

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The current board, Mr. Mahmoud al-Imam, was the 
commercial director of Telemisr company,

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 which belongs to him and his brother Hani al-Ghazzawi.

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Alaa al-Dali was the financial director of Telemisr.

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We're asking the general prosecutor to open an investigation

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into the corruption that's happening in this company

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He sank it, he sank the workers, we're all on the streets.

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People lost their livelihoods, there's nothing left

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Where's the governor? Where's Said al-Katatni?

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Hani al-Ghazzawi used to meet with us and say: 

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'I'm the company owner, what I take out of one pocket 
goes in the other'

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'I'm the owner. And it's not your fault; 
it's the fault of your country, 

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because it sold you down the river'

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'Neither your president nor anyone will be able 
to do anything.' And it's true, that's what happened.

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We're not afraid, we won't bow down, 
we won't be silenced anymore.

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The country's boiling, people are eating each other alive,

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and our salaries are less than EGP 500 or 600.

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I'm not going to eat or drink or pay water 
or electricity bills or butane bottles,

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which are EGP 50 now. What can I afford? Nothing.

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Should we sacrifice one person, or 500?

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We get our rights, or die together.

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(Appeal from the Telemisr workers to those in charge: 
restore our stolen rights)

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Say it loud, say it high, if you shout it you won't die