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 everywhere in …
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Egypt’s Protests and Gene Sharp
San Pedro Sula Newspapers, as the saying goes, write the rough drafts of history. In Egypt is is fascinating to watch the 20-day process of rewriting, revising, and re-framing that is already taking place in papers like the New York Times. The first drafts desperately wanted this to be a Facebook or Twitter revolution…young and …
Spontaneous? No Way! Organizers Speak in Egypt
Houston You know the old saying, “If I had a hundred dollars for every time,” blah, blah, blah. We’ll if I had a $100 for every time Anderson Cooper or someone on CNN or Fox or any of the other pundits, reporters, or talking heads told the story of the demonstrations in Cairo being the …