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One of the first tents set late January in Tahrir Square was by group of friends (including bloggers, human rights defenders, political activists...etc) and most of us were there with our personal laptops, cameras, memory-readers, hard-disks, cables and devices that we might need.  The Media Tent in Tahrir Square With a sign on the tent that says "point to gather pictures and videos", the main thing we did was gathering all kind of multimedia from demonstrators in Tahrir Square then making the content available online once its possible. For me, gathering content from people and making it available online via different means was very important because i believed that making those pictures and videos public will help everyone to really understand whats happening on the ground, follow-up the situation and be able to judge, as well as have an overview of what happened in different cities in Egypt as those people who had pictures or videos were not only from Cairo.  ...

25 January 2011 was the day when people of Egypt went to the streets in several cities to demonstrate against President Mubarak and the current regime. Online platforms and social websites were highly utilized by activists to mobilize youth and spread the word before January 25. On the first of day of demonstrations, the government started to crackdown on communication and online platforms to limit the flow of information on what is happening and despite that crackdown, people of Egypt were still able to deliver videos, pictures and thoughts from the demonstrations all over Egypt and it didn’t affect mobilizing people to join peaceful assemblies. Among many different tactics activists used to spread the multimedia is building tents in Tahrir Square (Downtown, Cairo) and hanging a sign “Gathering Picture and Videos” to compile footage and pictures from demonstrators and uploading them online. Here is the sequence of communication shutdown by the government starting 25 January (app...

Pictures From the Demonstrations in Cairo, Egypt since January 25 Here   Videos Here and Here

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