Participants in Hizbullah protest
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Calls to participate in the demonstration on Tuesday in Riad Solh Square intensified on Monday. Demonstrators will include: MP Adnan Araqji; Lebanese forces and parties, Islamic committees, Palestinian factions in northern Lebanon; the Najjada Party; the Independent Nasserite Movement (Murabitoun); Amal's politburo; the Syrian Social Nationalist Party; the Nasserite Gathering
[hard to believe but there was actually a split amongst the 12 pro-Nasser people in Lebanon back in 2002];
Jamaa al-Islamiya; the Islamic Charity Projects Association; the Popular Nasserite Organization;
[a third Nasser group - fossil wannabees]
the national forces and parties in Sidon; Hizbullah's central education enrollment department; Amal's youths and sports bureau; the Baath Party; the Youths Association for Projects; the Federation Youths Organization; the Phalange Party students department
[the Phalange is the group that killed a lot of Palestinians during Israel's Lebanon invasion];
the Zawarian Youth Organization- Tashnak; the Islamic Unionist Movement; the Workers League
[still some Marxists in town];
the National Youths Federation- the Lebanese Popular Conference; the Lebanese Democratic Party; the Waad Organization; the Gathering for the Right to Return and Opposition to Settlement; the National Gathering of Lebanese University Teachers; the Self-Employed Professionals; the Islamic Gathering for Teachers; the Jabal Amel Ulemas Committee; the League for the Children of Earth
[thank you green party],
Human Rights and the Lebanese Association for Lebanese-Syrian Fraternity
[retired Syrians living off extortion of Lebanese businesses];
former minister Joseph Hashem; the Nabatieh Merchants Association; the Tyre Merchants Association; and the South's fishermen's unions and the Baalbek-Hermel Gathering for Physicians and Pharmacists. |