{"id":4556,"date":"2011-02-07T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2011-02-07T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T11:43:20","slug":"agyptische-burger-bildet-parteien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2011\/02\/07\/agyptische-burger-bildet-parteien_4556","title":{"rendered":"(\u00c4gyptische) B\u00fcrger, bildet Parteien!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unter den Demonstranten am Tahrir-Platz scheint sich herumzusprechen, dass eine Protestbewegung etwas Sch\u00f6nes und Erhabenes ist &#8211; dass man aber mit gen\u00fcgend Geduld und Kaltbl\u00fctigkeit eine solche Bewegung auch aussitzen kann. In anderen Worten: Die Bewegung muss in Strukturen \u00fcberf\u00fchrt werden, die verhandlungsf\u00e4hig sind, damit die den Wandel mit gestalten k\u00f6nnen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandmonkey.org\/2011\/02\/06\/the-way-forward\/\">Sandmonkey macht dazu Vorschl\u00e4ge<\/a>. Ich w\u00fcnsche mir sehr, dass sie auf fruchtbaren Boden fallen. Aber skeptisch bin ich doch angesichts der \u00dcbermacht von Milit\u00e4r und Geheimdienst &#8211; und der mauen internationalen Unterst\u00fctzung:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This lack of action and organization will be used against us (the  protesters) in every way possible. The participants will start  complaining about the lack of direction or movement leaders. The  government will start complaining that the protesters haven\u2019t offered a  single person to represent them and negotiate with the government for  them, and that the protesters don\u2019t know what they want. Mind you, this  is utter rubbish: It\u2019s not that the protesters don\u2019t know what they want  (you can read about their demands everywhere), it\u2019s that their demands  are so nonnegotiable for them, that it makes no sense for them to engage  in negotiations until a number of those demands get realized. Thus,  Gridlock!<\/p>\n<p>So here are my two cents: next time when you head to Tahrir,  alongside blankets and food and medicine, please get some foldable  tables, chairs, papers, pens, a laptop and a USB connection. Set up a  bunch of tables and start registering the protesters. Get their names,  ages, addresses &amp; districts. Based on location, start organizing  them into committees, and then have those committees elect leaders or  representatives. Do the same in Alex, In Mansoura, in Suez, in every  major Egyptian city in which the Protesters braved police suppression  and came out in the thousands. Protect the data with your life. Get  encryption programs to ensure the security of the data. Use web-based  tools like Google documents to input the data in, thus ensuring that  even if your laptops get confiscated by State Security Goons, they won\u2019t  find anything on your harddrives. Have people outside of Egypt back-up  your data daily on secure servers. Then, start building the structure.<\/p>\n<p>You see, with such proper citizen organization and segmentation,  we\u2019ll have the contact information and location of all the protesters  that showed up, and that could be transformed into voting blocks in  parliamentary districts: i.e. a foundation for an Egyptian Unity party.  That Egyptian Unity Party will be an umbrella party that promotes  equality, democracy &amp; accountability, without any ideological  slants. It should be centrist, because we don\u2019t want any boring Left vs.  Right squabbling at that stage. Once you institute the structure, start  educating the members on their rights and their obligations as  citizens. Convince them to bring their friends and relatives into  meeting. Establish voters\u2019 critical mass , all under that party.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian Unity Party, however, will not be a permanent structure,  but rather a transitional entity with a clear and direct purpose:  create the grassroots organization to take back the parliament and  presidency in the next elections. Once sufficient votes and seats have  been obtained, the party will amend the constitution to promote civil  liberties, plurality, and truly democratic elections. Once that  constitution is in place, the party can disband, and its elected members  can start forming their own parties and collations, based on their  personal beliefs and ideologies, or they can join any of the existing  parties, and breathe some life into their decaying carcasses. We will  end up with an actual political process and representative political  parties that will actually discuss policy and have to represent those  who voted for them so that they can get re-elected. Democracy in action.  An old but brilliant concept. A way to ensure that no matter what, we  will have a huge influence on who becomes the next Egyptian President  come election day in September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unter den Demonstranten am Tahrir-Platz scheint sich herumzusprechen, dass eine Protestbewegung etwas Sch\u00f6nes und Erhabenes ist &#8211; dass man aber mit gen\u00fcgend Geduld und Kaltbl\u00fctigkeit eine solche Bewegung auch aussitzen kann. In anderen Worten: Die Bewegung muss in Strukturen \u00fcberf\u00fchrt werden, die verhandlungsf\u00e4hig sind, damit die den Wandel mit gestalten k\u00f6nnen. Sandmonkey macht dazu Vorschl\u00e4ge. 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