Rebellion.. Signatures call for Morsi’s step down

Hossam..An Egyptian in “Rebellion” movement

Rebellion.. Signatures call for Morsi’s step down

Written by: Yusra Salama

From the mass in the crowded city Egypt’s Cairo, some youth from diverse political movements and parties stand on the stairs of journalism’s syndicate, reading some papers and signing on them in a way to see the Egypt as the dreamed of in 25^th 2011.

The youth are from the new opponent movement “Rebellion”- famously known in Egypt as “tamarod”. The movement aims to collect signs from Egyptians with their Id numbers on their statement to withdraw the legitimacy from Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.

Hossam Hagrass, a fresh graduated journalist, shared in the event of “rebellion” on the syndicate. He signed on the first week of the movement in Cairo. He said :”As a result of my despair from the current system in Egypt and as well from the weak and disjointed oppositions , I decide to sign to “rebellion” statement”.

“From their little money , the movement spent to make copies of the statements, the participants are believers in the idea, Morsi has no legitimacy after all these martyrs and violations against human rights activists”, Hossam added.

“I am not afraid from the sequences of my signatures to join Rebellion, as If we had been afraid, we wouldn’t have make a great revolution on the dictator Mubarak” Hossam said .

Many opponent movements declared the participation in “Rebellion” such as 6 April and free Egyptians party. In the time that other supporters of president Morsi kick off against campaign on to the response to “Rebellion” called “Supporter”.

From its beginning, many youth in Muslim brotherhood degrades the campaign and its members after it reached 2 million signatures. One of MB youth “Ahmed Elmogeer” said on his Facebook account the members in “rebellion” should be withdrawn their Egyptian nationality, in the end some of the supporters launched “supporter” campaign to collect signatures to Morsi.

Hossam said that the response campaign from Morsi’ supporters is the best evidence of rebellion’s success and effect on the Egyptian street. He added: “Morsi’ supporters will surprise by the number signatures in next days”.