MB Civic

this is Aida Edemariam in The Guardian ..

Solidarity, as Middle Eastern potentates are quickly discovering, is a powerful thing. And it can take some rather unusual forms. One night last week, Ian’s Pizza in Madison, Wisconsin, received an order from some hungry protesters at the state capitol asking if they had any leftovers. They did, and, even though it was 3.30am, obliged. The next day they took a couple of calls from people who had heard about their gesture and wanted to order more pizzas for the protesters .. On Sunday it all began again. Calls were coming in not just from the States (38 of the 50, at last count), but from all over the globe: Ian’s Facebook page (of course) carries a picture of the chalkboard on which they are keeping track – Canada, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Germany, China, the UK, the Netherlands, Korea, Turkey – and Egypt. Take on Mubarak and win, apparently, and you can take on the world

and as The Nation reported, Antarctica made it every continent – mab .. read more