New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers Forum visited Managua and several other cities in Nicaragua to assess the status of the country and its civil society in the years since the revolution. Now the government is undergoing fierce street protests led by students. We received this report forwarded from friends to friends offering a …
Category: International
Fighting and Dying in Kurdistan During the Syrian War
Little Rock A bit more than a year ago on my regular Friday morning radio show, Wade’s World, I interviewed a young man in London who had only recently returned from fighting in an international brigade with the YPG, the Kurdish units fighting ISIS along the borderlands in the Syrian War. One of the taglines …
Confusion Reigns Over Brexit and Immigration Affects All EU Politics
Little Rock Over and over again I would ask members, organizers, activists and others, “What’s the skinny on Brexit? What’s it going to mean to us and our people?” The answer was almost invariably a shrug and one of those looks that says, “who the heck knows?” That’s not to say there aren’t a lot …