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Egypt
Toronto If there was ever a more dramatic case study of the political impact of protest on or off the grid of internet, telecommunications, and social networking, the world saw it on the streets of...
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Sorry, Glenn, the Organizers’ Forum Dialogues are Only for Organizers!
Vietnamese Organizers exchanging with the Organizers' Forum of 2010 New York City After a long day of meetings in the big city, I got back to my priceline special in Chinatown on the Bowery to find a...
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More Wildness: Media Matters and the Daily Show
New Orleans Being on the road is a little like having a “delay switch” on information and the mess and mayhem of life and business. I used to joke years ago about one way to hide information from me...
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Revolution for the Masses, Leaders for the Media
New Orleans If the commentary on TV and in print about Egypt were not so ridiculous, pathetic, tragic, and misinformed about such deadly serious business as freedom, revolution, and regime change, it...
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Spontaneous? No Way! Organizers Speak in Egypt
Tahrir Square Houston You know the old saying, “If I had a hundred dollars for every time,” blah, blah, blah. We’ll if I had a $100 for every time Anderson Cooper or someone on CNN or Fox or any of...
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Annals of Organizing: Naked Protests
San Pedro Sula Waiting for the meeting to begin ACORN Honduras leaders in the San Pedro Sula area were talking animately back and forth. In my sorry Spanish I could make out the fact that the subject...
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Egypt’s Protests and Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp in his office San Pedro Sula Newspapers, as the saying goes, write the rough drafts of history. In Egypt is is fascinating to watch the 20-day process of rewriting, revising, and...
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Unions Stepping Up in Wisconsin, Egypt, and Around the World
Mexico City This evening I speak at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) about my book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families. It will be hard not to...
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Teachers and Health Care Workers Strike, Welcome to Cairo!
Military moves in Cairo The first day is a “shakeout” day for the Organizers’ Forum and with an outstanding delegation of over 20 people from diverse and outstanding organizations in the USA and...
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Egyptian Workers Were the Difference, Unions Still Struggling
Informal Bakery Workers Demanding Union Recognition Cairo Every small piece that comes together in a campaign makes a difference and is essential to victory, so the young people in the Square, the...
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Cairo 2050 Plan and Egyptian Revolution Postponed
Cairo The weekend in Cairo is Friday and Saturday. On the Friday day of prayers organizers had called a rally to reignite the spirit of Tahrir Square, predicting a vast assemblage of people...
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Leaving Cairo
quarried edges of Great Pyramid at Giza Cairo Sorting out the experience as I pack to leave Cairo, I find my thoughts something of a jumble. The trip was amazing for all of us. One of the Organizers’...
View ArticleEgyptian Misogynous and Brutal Military must be Stopped
New Orleans Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has this exactly right when she says the beating of bystanders, protestors, and women in Cairo’s Tafhir Square are “shocking.” Furthermore she added in a...
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Egyptian Military Crackdown on Government Funded Civic Groups
New Orleans There seems little argument left that the Egyptian military is aggressively pursuing a counter revolutionary program. The latest evidence was shocking in its boldness when a...
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Hard Choices, Right Process: Deal Making in Paterno, Cairo, & New Orleans
Everyone is Happy with the Decision and Crowds around Candidate Vittorio Lo Presti (middle/blue sweater) Paterno After days of discussion sometimes heated and dramatic, the leadership of the La...
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How Can Kamal Abbas be Sentenced to Jail Now in Egypt?
Here is a picture of Kamal Abbas that I took at his office in Cairo New Orleans When the Organizers’ Forum visited Cairo in the fall of 2011 one of the most impressive people we met was Kamal Abbas,...
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Looking at Occupy and the Arab Spring
AADERT Conference Springfield Looking at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement was an irresistible topic for...
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Wade Rathke looks at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement at the 20th conference of AADERT (African and...
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Unions, the First and Last Hope for Egyptian Revolution
New Orleans When more than 20 organizers from labor unions and community organizations as part of the Organizers’ Forum delegation visited Egypt in 2011 after the revolution several years ago scores...
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First They Come for the Nonprofits
On 21 July 2014, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered five prominent Russian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on the ‘Foreign Agents’ list. – See more at:...
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