La Paz Organizers’ Forum international dialogues are always full of surprises. We could tell Bolivia was going to be no different especially when miner’s strikes and mobilizations of various social movements were everywhere in the streets and in the news of La Paz. Many of these were the same groups we had sought to meet with …
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How Can Kamal Abbas be Sentenced to Jail Now in Egypt?
New Orleans When the Organizers’ Forum visited Cairo in the fall of 2011 one of the most impressive people we met was Kamal Abbas, the long time director of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services (CTUWS), based in Cairo. We visited him in his offices and were intrigued and inspired by the accounts of …
Myles Horton and Occupy Decision Making Structure
Toronto It is interesting to be reading Myles Horton’s autobiography, Long Haul, with its firmly held views on popular education, starting with where people are, supporting social movements, student-run and student-led educational experience, and “circles” of learning that are leaderless in pursuit of knowledge and at the same time hear and think about the Occupy …