Tahrir Square swells with protesters for the 17th consecutive day. Some say the crowds today are the biggest yet as labor unions strike in order to join the thousands who have vowed not to leave Cairo's focal point until President Hosni Mubarak steps down -- which many hoped would happen today. The protests will rage more furiously in the coming days, and as the world watches, some fear the movement will reach a violent breaking point as the Egyptian people struggle to take back their country.

They were born roughly around the time that President Hosni Mubarak first came to power, most earned degrees from their country s top universities and all have spent their adult lives bridling at the restrictions of the Egyptian police state some undergoing repeated arrests and torture for the cause.