Guardian Reporter Jack Shenker on Egypt Protests: "The Fear Barrier Seems to Have Been Broken"

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Unprecedented protests in Egypt continue for a second day. On Wednesday, demonstrators defied a government ban on gatherings and took to streets in the biggest popular protests against President Hosni Mubarak in three decades. Democracy Now! interviews Guardian reporter Jack Shenker live on the phone from Cairo. "That fear barrier seems to have been broken," Shenker says. "These are sort of middle-class people who are generally enjoying quite a comfortable standard of living... They've got a lot to lose, and yet they're still being motivated to come out, to be beaten, to be hit by water cannons, to be carried off into the desert," he says. "There's so much energy and so much momentum behind what's going on ... I think we'll still see a lot of people on the streets tomorrow."

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