How the Flower Delivery in Egypt Went

Posted by Medea Benjamin in Global Exchange News & Events, World News & Events on 9th February, 2011 | 1 Comment

Our first attempt to buy flowers for the demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was thwarted by a crazed-looking guy with a gun in one hand and a homemade spear in another (pruning shears taped to a broomstick, to be exact). Three of us, all Americans, were in a taxi driving to the flower market when this fellow stopped our car at gunpoint. His hand on the trigger, he forced us to pull over.
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