Cochabamba Our days in La Paz were never complete without a trip to or from El Alto, the city of a million on the top of the mountain, which made us acutely aware of the importance of this strategic location in the future of social movements and the very country. Meeting with Ivan Nogales, the director …
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Community Development, Afro-Bolivians, Unions of Campesino Workers, Federations of Highlands Indigenous, and the Union of Young Workers
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 …
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 …