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[Sign]: Health quotas must amount to 15 percent of the public budget. -We're here today, during the first session of the new Parliament, to deliver a very important message.
[Sign]: Health quotas must amount to 15 percent of the public budget. There are dream, demands the Egyptian people have born for twenty years,
For real health, for real education, for jobs,
[Sign]: Drop the debts of impoverished peasants The reality is that the demands of the workers, peasants, and fishermen,
No one is raising their demands, even in sit-ins outside the Parliament or the Cabinet or anywhere else,
No one is thinking about these demands. In fact perhaps under Mubarak there was more of a threat from solidarity activism,
Right now this is not the case at all.
No real change will take place without addressing social demands,
Including the right to a minimum living wage, health, and education,
As well as the right to work, and other rights.
[Chants] Factories belong to workers,
[Chants] Not to the authorities of capital.
[Chants] And social justice,
[Chants] Is our path to freedom.
[Chants] My country, my country, the authorities have killed my son.
[Sign] The people demand the downfall of debt. -My name is Philip Rizk, and I'm from the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt,
We are demanding an audit of the Egyptian state's debts, accumulated through Mubarak's loans,
For the last thirty years he has robbed and plundered the Egyptian people,
And we are demanding an audit of these debts so we know where the money came from,
And how it was used, and stolen.
[Chants] Parliament, O Parliament,
[Chants] You who will rule in the name of the people,
[Chants] A year has passed, with nothing new,
[Chants] Tell me where are the rights of the martyr!
[Chants] Down, down with military rule!
[Chants] Retribution, retribution,
[Chants] Murdered Khaled with bullets.
[Chants] Murdered Mina with bullets.
I'm here today, and I want to know, those taking the oath in Parliament today - what are they swearing on?
They're supposed to be taking the oath by the constitution - but where is this constitution they swear to?
Where are the rights of the martyrs? Where is the revolution? Where are the fruits of the revolution?
I want to ask these representatives, what are you going to do for Egypt?
These representatives, and the military council, are one and the same.
The success of these representatives was ensured by the military council. They got what they wanted.
I want to deliver this to the old government - the one killing our sons,
The ones that shot my son - the old authorities,
From Almaza, and the entire government of Alexandria, to Cairo and Suez and Ismailiya,
We don't want them at all - at all!
We've spent a year struggling for verdicts,
A kid heading to Manshiyah, ends up walking through Mahmoudiya,
Between the traffic police station and Batal Ahmad street,
Gets shot with a bullet, that goes in from here and exits here,
[Chants] The mother of the martyr is grieving.
[Chants] And the criminal is outside the prison cell.
I want the rights of my son. I want retribution.
I don't want the monetary compensation they announce on television.
They reduce us to monetary figures.
I don't want money. I spent two months sitting-in on the street.
When I left, it was because they put them in prison.
They said they would put them on trial. I want retribution.
I want retribution, and nothing but retribution, because I have noone but my son. 22 years old.
Retribution for the martyrs is not merely putting their murderers on trial,
The trial of their killers, and compensation, is fundamental and important and we will never give it up,
But this alone does not grant the rights of the martyrs,
The right of the martyr is for his family to live with the dignity he dreamed of when he took to the streets the day he died.
Think for a second! It's not us halting the wheel of production!
The roads to Downtown have been stalled for twelve years because of the metro construction,
We haven't halted any production - where is the production we're doing for us to stop it?!
You have to use your heads, you have to go down to the street, we all have to go out on 25th January.
[Graffiti] Why military rule?