Modern Day Uprising - Egypt

On January 25th of this year, Egypt experienced a very dramatic uprising. A ton of Egyptians all got together and demanded the overthrow of the president, Hosni Mubarak. It started out with peaceful intents, just demonstrations, marches, and civil resistance, but ended up becoming violent when the miliary, police, and some protesters started in with fighting. Most of the action took place in Cario, and on February 11th, Hosni Mubarak resigned.

The protesters had a lot that they wanted changed, including freedom of speech policy, food prices, election rules, government corruption, minimum wages, and police brutality. The government tried to control things by making a curfew, but it wasn't enforced. After Mubarak stepped down, he appointed a new panel to take over running things and to try to fix things, and agreed not to seek re-election. While things are far from over, we can only wait and watch what happens. By now things are quieting down, and details and plans are being worked out.