Casablanca We could almost say this was an “easy” day for the Organizers’ Forum, because we finished earlier than usual, but we packed it full. We started talking at length to an organizer-activist about the organizing of a housing committee to protect against evictions and displacements of lower income families, many of whom had traditionally …
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Repression is Real for Political Activists in Morocco
Casablanca Ok, sure, we’ve seen worse on other Organizer Forum visits to various countries around the world. Certainly, when part of our delegation was meeting with one of the presidential candidates in Cariro, Egypt, nine months after the beginning of events in Tahrir Square, and the state police busted in and tried to forbid the …
Welcome to Morocco
Casablanca Beginning in 2002, the Organizers Forum began its International Dialogues with a thrilling visit to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the exhilarating days before the first primary where Lula de Silva from the Workers’ Party would be elected to begin what everyone felt would be a transformative period in the country, if he were actually …