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Egyptian Presidential Candidates Offer Surprising Perspectives

Dr. Fatouh making a point as his campaign manager listens during our meeting

Cairo        In an amazing development I had to split the Organizers’ Forum delegation into two tracks, one political and the other labor, to accommodate the packed schedule of high level meetings.  On the political side the confluence of Ahmed Rehab’s [...]

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 social media, the bravery of the Tunisians and the martyrs, and more all played important roles, but on the ground it [...]

Egypt’s Grassroots Revolution: Legan Sha3beya

Cairo        The Organizers’ Forum meetings have been outstanding.  On our third day we begin meeting with emerging political leaders who are building parties (Egypt Arab Union Party) and standing as candidates for Egypt’s new president (Amr Moussa, former head of Arab League and Foreign Minister) as well as labor leaders and organizers who played [...]

With the Revolutionaries in Tahrir Square

Cairo An accident over one of the many bridges crossing the Nile to the Zamalek district, where we were meeting, forced our guests to trickle into the session as the night darkened until we finally had all seven with us and an earlier guest from the National Democratic Institute (US) long departed, bringing [...]

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 Canada, just moving about from place to place was a project in the crowds and chaos of Cairo.  After an excellent [...]

Cairo Excitement and Challenges for Organizers’ Forum

Tahrir Square

Paris We have a big, diverse and significant delegation traveling with the Organizers’ Forum for our 10th International Dialogue, this time in Cairo.  We are all in the air moving across the time zones now with great anticipation to meet with our counterparts and get a sense of the social changes and revolution [...]

Sixty Day Delay for Low Wage Whiners Resisting Living Wages

New Orleans This is embarrassing, but not surprising.  A last ditch lawsuit filed by a bunch of bottom fishing, low wage employers in the Louisiana seafood, forestry, sugar, and hotel and amusement park industries, won a 60-day delay from the US Department of Labor preventing fair and living wages from being paid to the [...]

Keeping Up to Date on Slavery, Yes, Slavery!

New Orleans Yes, I know many of you believe that slavery ended almost 150 years ago in an American-centric view of the world, but it’s a big world, and shockingly simple to exploit people by having them work for free, which is what slavery is all about.  The US State Department estimates there are [...]

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