DETROIT – As part of the Occupy Detroit movement, a rally is scheduled to be held at Grand Circus Park in Detroit in solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution on January 25, the movement’s one-year anniversary. 

The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. at Grand Circus Park in Detroit and will be followed by a march to the McNamara Federal Building downtown to protest U.S. military aid to “Egypt’s brutal and oppressive Supreme Council of Armed Forces.” 

Lare said that efforts are being coordinated with Arab American community organizers and leaders and will include speeches and other actions. 

He added that the original idea was to protest in front of General Dynamics in Sterling Heights but the protest was moved for logistical reasons and because of federal military aid identified as the main problem, especially in a climate where government services are being cut left and right.

He said that organizers have not ruled out a future protest at the plant, however. 

“We wanted to do something as Occupy Detroit to commemorate the revolution that’s been so important to inspire people in the U.S. from Wisconsin (and their occupation of the capital building over a union-busting law) to Occupy Wall Street; we knew we had to do something.”