One of the things that I did today was wander downtown. George al Hawi’s funeral was today, so I stuck around to watch the crowds that had gathered outside the church. Hawi was a former Communist Party leader, so there were a lot of Communist flags and many Che Guevara t-shirts. You could hear the service being given inside the church, but naturally I couldn’t follow any of it. According to Reuters, about 10,000 people turned out. However, the calls for businesses to strike today seemed to have gone unheeded, as they did when the opposition called for a strike after Kassir’s death.